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an ang'le of fully nine degrees. But after that the slope 
of the glacier- trough decreased considerably, and the 
large full-llowing stream that issued from underneath the 
terminal moraine meandered fairly quietly down, often 
without forming cataracts. 
The Lesser Gorumdeh glacier was split into two 
branches by an island of rock, the outer branch being 
hedged on the left by eight or ten more or less parallel 
lateral moraines. Between the outermost of these, which 
THE GORUMDEH GLACIERS, LOOKING SOUTH 
was thirty to forty-five feet high, and the soft grass-grown 
ridge on which we were riding, there was a stream, which 
higher up traversed a small triangular lake between the 
ridge, the moraine, and the solid rock of Mus-tagh-ata. 
The right-hand wall which bounded the Lesser Gorum- 
deh glacier on the west was crowned with extensive snow- 
fields, which from time to time slip down to its foot and 
there form new miniature glaciers. In this way they have 
heaped up a remarkable terminal moraine, about forty- 
five feet in height, at the base of the mountain. From 
