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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1862

1863

The monastery of Chanacheeling is perched upon a high peak of the Pemionchee range to the westward and at present is made the repository of all the books and other relics saved when the Pemionchee Goompa was burnt. [...] We put up for the night in the house of a villager the female members of which on their return from the toils of the field seemed not at all pleased at finding their house in the possession of strang-"1862 I journid o/' a trip in the Sikkim ?limaToga. [...] The grandeur of' the surrounding snow-clad mountains and the wildness of the scenery of the valley of the Ratong surpases any thing of the kind I have elsewhere witnessed in the Himlayas. [...] This huge mass of ice and debris descending from the Pundeem mountain etends nearly across the valley where it is met by and abuts upon another glacier equally vast in its dimensions and formed at the base of the snow-clad mountains on the other or western side of the valley the two together forming a complete barrier across the valley and choking it up to the height of a. thousand feet [...] In order to ascertain as nearly as possible what might be the thicness of the glacier we ascended by a separate spur of Puudeem to a level with the top of the glacier and measuring the height by boiling water found it to be 16 060 feet and again measuring the height at the foot found it 13 760 feet thus giving a difference between the summit and the base of 2 300 feet.
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Pages
107
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Journal of a Trip undertaken to explore the Glaciers of the Kanchunjingah Group in thc Sikkim Himalaya in November 1861.—By Major J. L. Suerwill Revenue Surenyor
457-479 The Secretaries view
Notes of a trip from Simla to the Spiti Valley and Chomoriri (Tshomoriri) Lake during the Months of July August and September 1861.—By W. Theobald Esq. Jnr
480-527 The Secretary view
Notices of Works Connected With Sanskrit Literature
527-528 The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence Correspondence &C
529-534 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
535-544 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Resulte of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the month of April 1862
xcvii-cxii The Secretary view

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