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fill up the intervening space with mounds of gravel and 
patches of grass. The latter, however, was only in 
demand by the wild-goats of the mountain. 
We found that the left half of the Kamper - kishlak 
glacier, like that of the Yam-bulak, was much higher than 
the right half, and was further encumbered with huge 
moraines, while the right side had hardly any. This 
circumstance shows plainly that the stream of ice was 
trending" towards the left wall of rock, where it pressed 
close against the foot of the mountain and derived its 
moraine material from near at hand. On the left side the 
ice lay underneath the moraine ; while on the right the 
moraine lay underneath the ice. 
