Rivers, GaneEs anD JumMNa. Yih 
Paces. Degrees. 
nA 
9 Up the river, and fone snow.—~Mount Moira 170, pyra- 
mid peak 200 OF FF FHT FHP HHHOHHBGVXAGHoFOC HX OCR GOR BOK OS 8071 
Return to ©, 8 to halt for the sake of firewood. Deduct 1034 
1037 
‘Tus is ary excellent and safe places no peak can fall on us; 3 com- 
panies, or even 2’ battalion, might encamp here.—Sublime beyond des 
scription is the appearance of the snowy peaks now so close tous. The 
-@ Saints are at the head ef the valley of snow, and a most magnificent 
peak, cased in snow and shining ice, stands like a giant to the right of 
the valley: this we named, mount Moire. ‘The snow valley, which hides 
the river, appears of great extent; to-morrow will shew what it is. 
We experienced considerable difficulty in breathing, and that peculiar 
sensation which is always felt at great elevations, where there is any 
sort of herbage, though I never experienced the like on the naked snow. 
beds, even whem higher.—Mountaineers, who knows nothing of the 
thinness of the air, attribute the faintness to the exhalations from noxious 
plants, and I believe they are right, for a sickening effluvium was given out 
by them here, as well as on the heights under the snowy peaks, which I 
passed over last year above the Setle7; though on the highest snow, 
the faintness was not complained ‘of, but only an inability to go far withe 
out stopping to take breath. 
