362 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon. [May, 



had never before, I think, been observed. Much further to the S. E., 

 with Binsur for our station, a good glass enables one to detect abreast of 

 Moongsharee, amongst the western recesses of the Punch Choolla Group 

 (the fabled abode of the Five Pandoos,) what will probably turn out to be 

 one of the greatest glaciers of the Himalaya, well deserving the examina- 

 tion of any future traveller on the Milum route. (It is in good hands.) 



Cheenur mountain is prolonged S. E. in the Boorans ka danda, 

 "Rhododendron Range," a razor-edged spur, so narrow for several 

 hundred yards as to try the nerves of the new-comer severely. The 

 Ulmah ka Khan Pass divides it from the Sher ka Danda, " Tiger 

 Range,'* a name which from sure indications, I should say was equally 

 applicable to all ; centuries must elapse before it becomes as insignifi- 

 cant as our own Wolverhamptons, Bearhamptons, &c. The Sher ka 

 Danda forms the east and north-east boundary of the lake, to which 

 it falls in the easiest and most regular slopes of the station ; but on its 

 east and S. E. aspects, the slate which composes it crops out in tremen- 

 ous shelves and precipices, with landslips which have thrown serious 

 difficulties in the construction of the Post road to Almorah, via Ramgar, 

 which passes this way. A syce who was unlucky enough to fall over 

 about two years ago had an escape as miraculous as that of the burgo- 

 master of Bern, or the Mameluke of Cairo. 



The culminating point of the Sher ka Danda throws off a ridge to the 

 N. E. which in a mile or two ends in the Lurria or Lurooa Kanta, an 

 enormous mountain, rivalling 'Cheenur in mass, and attaining the eleva- 

 tion of 8023 feet (R. S.) ; its summit is quartz, bold and craggy to the 

 north. On this mountain and the Sher ka Danda, alone, is to be found 

 in this quarter, the Quercus lanuginosa: "Reeanj." 



Having now completed the circuit of the lake-mountains, it only 

 remains to search whether any trace remains of the agency which up- 

 heaved them. To Mr. Batten is due the discovery of the only two 

 dykes of greenstone which have hitherto been detected — but doubtless 

 a more careful and extended examination will bring others to light. 

 One of those already known commences near the north end of the Lake, 

 and may be traced N. E. to the summit of the Sher ka Danda ; the se- 

 cond is on the opposite side of the lake, between Uyarpata and Ghiwalee, 

 passing through limestone and beds of hornstone. The trappean rocks 

 are said to re-appear between Koorpaka and Kalaputhur, when they 



