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really a snow-clad table-land 24,000 feet high. Observations of 
Mt. Everest have to be taken from a distance of eighty miles, on 
account of the jealousy of the Nepalese government. As it is 
surrounded by peaks not greatly inferior in height, its aspect is 
not imposing, and the Tibetans look upon some other peak to the 
north or north-west as higher. The following table, given by Col. 
Tanner, shows the height above the sea of some of the highest 
Himalayan peaks, as well as the height of slope actually exposed 
to view. 
Height. song kane 
Everest (or Gaurisankar)........... 29,000 8,000 
K” SO Nite NOME) 650. 55 a vee ko) nA HAAS 28,278 
Mara CPE RIT a oa os oe a a 27,800 8-9,000 
Pree Pa ik EA 6 Ue 2 Hg dah 26,600 23,000 
Trench: Mir (Hinga Kush)i. siosio -ja asare 25,400 17—18,000 
ETACIE 5 PE AAS RRC E e 25,560 18,000 
inchinjinga .. 28,160 16,000 
Mont Blanc, though only 15,781 feet high, presents a face of 
11,500 feet. 
M. Potaneri’s Fourney—M. Potaneri has made interesting dis- 
coveries in Northwest China. The broad valley of the Tchitai, a 
tributary of the Hoang-ho, is thickly peopled by Salars (Turco- 
mans), its upper part by Tanguts. The right bank of the Hoang- 
ho itself, near San-chuan, is also peopled by Salars. They main- 
tain their Turkish language, and the Mussulman religion, but 
their mosques are Chinese in style, and the men wear a Chinese 
dress. The women wear broad trousers, an overcoat with 
sleeves, and a pointed bonnet. Above the gorge near San-chuan 
(excavated in the red sandstone and conglomerates which under- 
lie the Loess), is a depression seven miles long, peopled exclu- 
sively by Mongolian Shirongols, who seem to belong to the same 
stem as the Dalda of Lake Kuku-nor. The Chinese call both 
Tu-jen. They speak Mongolian, with some Chinese words, an 
_dress like Chinese, but the women wear trousers like the Salar 
women. Around He-cheu they are Mussulmans, but Buddhism 
and the teachings of Confucius are followed by some. 
Asiatic News-——M. Ivanoff has recently described in the 
Isvestia, the remains of Akhyr-tash, at the foot of the Alexander 
range in Turkestan. The area covered by the remains is 20,900 
_ square yards, and the stones weigh each about a ton. Some stone 
-idols and a burial-ground on the Tssyk-tul are also described. 
The Kampti villages on a tributary of the Irawadi, visited 
by Wilcox, sixty, years ago, have again been visited by Col. 
Woodthorpe. Only a very ordinary road is required to open up 4 
- trade with these people from Assam. Mr. Gardner considers 
Mukden, the capital of the Mongolian province of Féng- Tieng, as 
one of the finest and most prosperous cities of the Chinese . 
empire. The population of the province is chiefly Chinese. In 
he 
1865 it was a neutral belt, which neither Chinese nor Coreans” 
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