SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 
OF 
THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
GEOLOGY. 
By W. T. BLANFORD. 
Introduction and General Sketch of the Geology of Western Tibet. 
[ T ls ’ of course, very difficult to do justice to a rough travelling diary, such as Dr. Stoficzka’s. 
In such a diary first impressions are very often recorded, and subsequent observations do 
not always show how far the first notes require modification. To the writer this is a simple 
matter— his notes are memoranda serving to recaH details to his mind; but to another, who 
' ° eS not ; Possess the clue, it is very often difficult to ascertain how far the notes in the diary 
agree with the final conclusions of the diarist. ‘ 7 
nni r 0 / S1 ? ater P ortioilof Dr - StoHczka’s journey the geological results have already been 
pu hshed by lnmselt m the Records of the Geological Survey of India 1 and the Quarterly 
• mal of the Geological Society. 2 A comparison of these papers with the original notes 
tZ* ! ° f mteres t m the latter, with the exception of an occasional section, has 
with These P aper8 wiU > before, be here republished in sequence, 
10 atltktl0n only of such sections as can be extracted from the diary. The papers 
to tc/i lacntlorLed con tam the record of the geological observations from Leh, in Ladak, 
from ft? p’ 5? tW ° excursions from Kashghar to the northward. The notes 
previouslv ^ ^ f Kashmir ’ to Leh > refer to ground which had been 
very httlel^ e ^- e ? hGr Z' StollCzka lvinisdf > or b Y other geologists; but as 
here ^^ 0^1 ! ^ ifZZ puWislletl conc ™S Kashmir, the notes are 
in print ]0Uniey ° m K * Sh§har to the Pdmir nothing has hitherto appeared 
Him^yas^TflT ° f Dr i St0 . Hczka ’ S pvevious S eol °gical observations in the North-Western 
earHer travch 0^11 i 1 “ undei ’ staad mS the notes made in his last journey. His 
Lahaul, RudsIiu V'Z Um ,!° ? ksSlfy the rocks Seen in tlle mountain ranges of Spiti, Kulu, 
1 , askar or Zanskar, Ladak, and the neighbouring districts south of the Indus 
