At the debouchement of the Shigri glacier however the Chandra valley is comparatively wide and the 'greater number of the boulders covering it with the exception of those near the base of the mountain slopes no doubt represent true moraine' Many of them shew distinct grooving and polishing a rock face of true granite being made thereby to simulate gneiss. [...] At some considerable distance from the ice-cave on the right bank of the stream the ice which forms the core of the stream bank ends in a concave cliff below which is a watecourse with well ►ounded boulders proceeding in the direction of the Chandra: this has evidently been a secondary ice-cave' or point of issue for water though none could be seen flowing at the time. [...] Skemp the Officiating Assistant Commissioner of Kai iformed us that a mile or two northwards from the bend in the Chandra river there is evidence of a lake having existed in the course of the river in the form of a large sandy plain. [...] Although the termination of the glacier is so concealed by the vast quantity of boulders there is no evidence of the latter having been pushed forward by the ice. [...] Photographic Station I (Plate 44).—An enormous granite boulder on the edge of the left bank of the glacier stream close to ice-cave—at the time of our visit by far the largest boulder in the neighbourhood.
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