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the glacier trended in three different directions, namely to 
the east, the south, and the west ; or in other words, for- 
wards and to both sides. Immediately after leaving the 
upper reaches of the mountaiig it streamed over a fairly 
steep fall, and then across broken ground. Its lower part 
was therefore excessively cut up and fissured by transverse 
crevasses. The offshoots of the right-hand moraine, 
consisting of gneiss and innumerable varieties of schist, 
reached as far as the spot where we were standing. 
There, too, we again found some glacier-tables, one on 
VIEW FROM THE YAM-BULAK GLACIER, I.OOKING WEST 
a pillar nearly four feet high and leaning over very much 
to the south-west, where the sun, as usual, had most 
power to undermine it. There also, from a very narrow 
outlet, a glacier stream issued : we heard the water purling 
softly at the bottom, fifty feet or more down. 
On our return to the moraine, where we left the yaks 
tied to the boulders, we came across a place where the 
marginal moraine was broken off, so that the edge of the 
glacier lay naked and flayed, so to speak. Its sides rose 
up to a height of forty feet at an angle of sixty-four 
degrees, and down the glassy face ran numerous tiny 
