HIMALA MOUNTAINS. 
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and again, after having beheld, we are astonished, 
when we return, to find the interminable range still 
more and more gigantic, more and more varied in 
richness of the beautiful and the picturesque. 
The plate represents a view of the great cone and the 
peaks of Jumnoutri, as seen from the neighbourhood 
of Budrajh, upon the banks of a small stream tributary 
to the Jumna. Viewed from this spot, the great cone, 
which may be recognized by its peculiarly regular 
figure, appears to be almost in contact with Jumnoutri 
peaks, and to the eastward of them ; while in truth it 
is full fifteen miles distant to the northward. 
In Jumnoutri, as the name implies, the sacred Jum- 
na has its source, and here the infant stream, which, near 
its junction with the Ganges, is from two to three 
thousand yards in breadth, ripples through a narrow 
channel over which a man may stride. The spot at 
which it issues from the snow, under an enormous 
cavern of icicles, is about seventeen thousand feet 
above the level of the sea. The mountain has three 
peaks, which, from their lateral position, in the drawing 
are not distinctly visible : of these the centre is the 
highest, and is computed 25,500 feet above the level 
of the sea. The aspect of the mountain upon the 
north and south sides differs wonderfully ; on the 
south it is comparatively shelving, and is clothed with 
wood to the height of eleven thousand feet, while on 
the north it is rugged, barren, and precipitous ; not 
even a shrub is found at a greater altitude than nine or 
