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many hundreds of feet below the present level proves that a great : 
part of this gorge has been cut by the river itself. at 
The lowest level of any Himalayan glacier is 9400 feet, at which ; 
point one of the glaciers about the Peak of Nanga-Parbat termr | 
nates, near the village of Tarshing. The most southern of AY 
Mastagh or Karakoram range (which contains the second highest 
known peak of the world, 28,000 feet) is covered witha complete 
network of glaciers, some of which (the Biafo and Braldu glaciers) 
are only exceeded in size by the great Humboldt glacier of Green- 
land. The lowest limit of these glaciers is about 10,000 feet, and, 
contrary to what occurs in other parts of Kashmir, they descenda 
quite into cultivated ground, and their terminal moraines are fe ; 
quently covered with a thick growth of cypress. ad 
Grocrapnicar Nores.—A letter from Mr. Stanley, dated J bes i 
14, reports the discovery of a new lake called Mantumba, ani 
also the exploration of the course of the River Ikelembu, WE 
is identical with the Malundu, and is a broad navigable stream 7 
Mr. Stanley expresses increasing surprise at the density | 
miles. The stone hatchets of the steppe are similar to pO 
Great results may be expected yp 
the proposed expedition of Col. Prejevalsky to Thibet. He w 
the Brahmaputra. The last census of Bohemia gave the MU 
ber of Czeehs as 3.470,252, that of the Germans as 2,054 
The number of foreigners in Bohemia is only 80,236, ane 
sists chiefly of Germans. The Czeeh nationality preponde! l 
in the center of Bohemia, in some districts to the -almost 
exclusion of the German element, but in the border dis 
