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as Chomulari by the Thibetan soldiers, and, as far as Hooker could 

 calculate then, they occupied the position assigned to that celebrated 

 mountain by Captain Turner. 



What could exceed in grandeur such a galaxy of immense moun- 

 tains as we had in view from Bhomtso to the south and east? Nothing 

 that I know of. But the view to the north, north-west and north-east 

 stretching into Thibet was quite as striking. After descending from 

 Bhomtso, Hooker botanised the bed of the Lachen, and we found a 

 bed of blue slate on the south side of the Lachen valley, which would 

 be valuable for roofing if more accessible. 



Before reaching our tents at Gholamoo it got quite dark, we had 

 no guide to our camp, and instead of going to the eastern bank of 

 the Lake where it was pitched, we kept the west side, going towards 

 the Donkia mountain till we came upon snow. Here we found out 

 our mistake by shouts from the opposite side, and had to retrace our 

 steps to the outlet to enable us to cross over two miles of rocky and 

 swampy ground in pitchy darkness; but we got in by 8 o'clock, all 

 right, and very tired. 



(To be continued.) 



Influence of the Moon on the Weather. — By J. W. Beale, Esq., 



Agra College. 



At the desire of Mr. Middleton, the Principal of the Agra College, 

 I have, during the past year, followed up the observations made by 

 him in 1850 and printed in Journal CCXX. of the Society, with the 

 view to determine whether the prejudice so universally received in 

 India, especially by the Christian community, of the moon's influence 

 in producing a change of weather, be correctly founded or otherwise. 



The observations were made generally twice in a day, and some- 

 times oftener, when any change in the state of the weather seemed to 

 require it. The reductions from the larger tables have been made 

 exactly in the same way as in the former year, each lunation being 

 divided into New-Moon, Full-Moon, second and last periods ; each 



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