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As I was anxious to penetrate to the Lachen valley through the Sebo 

 La, I waited at Momay for a week in order to obtain good weather for 

 the attempt, but the cold south wind drove a thick mist and drizzling 



One day I went eastwards to the great faciei of lvindiiiijhow. Passing 

 the hot spring noted l>y Dr. Hooker, ami climbimz to the crest of the 

 terminal moraine, we walked along the top of a lateral one leading far 

 iuto the snowy billowy mass of the glacier. I was surprised to "hud 

 many plants flourishing in such a bleak place F.riof.'hi/tou Inimtbiirirni 

 was common. It is a white woolly Labiate with blight blue tlowers 

 peeping from under the leaves ; I have never observed it but on dry 

 sandy slopes. The other plants were a minute Saxifrar/a wit h extensive 

 runners, a small gentian, Pedicularis of three species, Festxco, and 

 Oin.r. li/n >(/,,(/■ ndron ///rolr was dead and u urn red, having probably 

 been killed by the >cverity of the previon- winter, but, strange to say, 

 Poft,,tilla fi-t/fimsi/, iii its largest and most developed form, and nut the 

 creeping variety we should expect to find here, was covered with flowers 

 and foliage, and was as much at home amongst ice and snow as it is at 

 the more temperate elevation of 10.000 feet. From Momav Samdo.ng 1 

 returned to Yeumtong, and halted there a few dav*. J amended to the 

 glacier on the opposite side, which Dr. Hooker failed to reach through 

 the gorge. Nowadays there is a cattle track leading to the high 

 pastures, so that progress is easy. Rosa scr/cea i- the commonest shrub 



the fir>l ridge ; 



r^luflh, are 



i llookeri, Illieinn m 



ung the valley forks, the east 

 ons, and is said to be impracti 

 entrance to this valley, and on ii 

 On inquiry, I discovered th 

 tora La, the first pass from the 

 vhich extends from Donkia to ( 



t difficulty and dang 



to Ghora La runs up the valley 



