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4. From Major J. L. Sherwill, an account of a visit to Kunch- 
injinga. 
Dr. Simpson read this paper to the meeting, and exhibited some 
photographic views of places mentioned in it. 
The paper will appear in one of the forthcoming numbers of the 
journal. 
Captain Montgomerie presented to the Society a memorandum on 
the geographical positions of the principal cities and towns of Eastern 
Turkistan, and exhibited a photograph by Lieutenant Melville from 
the field sheets of the Kashmir series, shewing the glaciers of the 
Shigar valley on a scale of four miles to an inch. 
After explaining that the positions in Turkistan were derived en¬ 
tirely from Great Trigonometrical Survey data and materials collected 
on the Hindustan side of the Mustak and Karakorum passes, Captain 
Montgomorie proceeded to read some notes on the Brahma, Kun and 
Nun, Zanskar, Mustak and other glaciers. 
He pointed out that as he had anticipated in his former memoran¬ 
dum, these glaciers have proved to be of the most gigantic size, so 
large, indeed, that compared with them the glaciers of the Alps must 
be reckoned as of the second order. 
The glaciers surveyed by Capt. Montgomerie’s party may be divided 
into those of the Himalayan and Mustak water-sheds. The glaciers 
of the Himalayan water-shed can boast of a large number varying 
in length from five to fifteen miles, the largest being the Drung-Drung 
glacier of fifteen miles, and there are others over eleven miles in 
Zanskar, the Brahma glacier of eleven and a half miles in Wurdwun 
and the Purkutsi glacier of seven and a half miles in Sooroo, besides 
a multitude 6f minor glaciers. The Purkutsi gunri or glacier is 
perhaps the most remarkable of the whole of this group, as it comes 
tumbling down in a torrent of broken and pinnacled ice from near 
the summit of the Kun peak which, rises upwards of 23,000 feet 
above the sea, a sight well worth looking at, though in aetual length 
the glacier is somewhat inferior to others in the neighbourhood ; it 
makes up for the want of length by the large mass of ice that is 
visible from one spot. 
The next group of glaciers referred to by Captain Montgomerie 
was that of the Mustak, consisting of those in the Saltoro and Hushe 
valley around the splendid peaks of Mashabrum, and his neighbours 
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