Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1856

The Meteorological observations of the dry and wet bulb Thermometer of the temperature of the ground from the surface to a depth of five or six meters of the temperature of rivers &c. [...] for an ascent of about 720 E. F. It seems pretty certain that the decrease of the temperature of the ground and of the springs from the foot of the Ilimalayas up to the line of zero is more rapid than in the Alps of Europe where we formerly found 700 or 730 French feet for a decrease of tempeature of one degree cent. [...] We made great use of them in the parts of the Himalayas North of the Snowy Range and in Thibet and we endeavoured by taking a series of angles from several elevated stations to furnish materials for ascertaining the position and height of the ranges between the Sutlej and North of the Indus; the principal stations were near Mum and on the Milum Glaciers the Sutlej near Gyungal the Indus-near G [...] 17th.—The alluvial deposits which we nieet after traversing the sedimentary strata on the northern flanks of the Himalayas do not form an elevated plain bordering the Himalayas to the Northward as the plain of Hindustan does in the Southward ; they are merely alluvial and lacustrine deposits filling up the inequalities of one of the largest longitudinal valleys of the world. [...] The physical structure of the glaciers of the Himalayas the laws of motion the distribution of the moraines and of the crevasses is precisely the same as in the glaciers of the Alps.