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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Physical Science 1868

1868

On the 15th July when our party crossed the Chang La the snow that had fallen in the early part of the month still lay covering about three miles of the road and being fresh it las glaringly white in the sun and much affected the eyes of our servants and the coolies while -eall suffered more or less from the effectsthe rarified air ; curious to say on the return journey via.the Kay a 800 fe [...] At the 18w pass of Surtokh whence one obtains the trest view of the Pangong lake this action is nowhere so well seen ; this ridg; of Surtokh forms the watershed across the natural exit for the waters of the great hike and is entirely jormed by the loose shingle brought down a somewhat large lateral ravine from the snowy peaks to the south : this bed of talus actually divides part to the eastwar [...] A curiong feature of the Pangong is the almost entire absence of streams whose waters find an exit in it considering the great area that some of them drain; for; with the exception of the few glacial rills and the Chnsbal stream on its south shore and the stream at the extreme west end from the Marse Mik La there are none. [...] On every sideammistakeable traces that the level was much above the present one arc seen in the lines of old beaches and in the beds of sand containing the fossil remains of freswater shells * intcrstratiticd with beds of angular dibris which I mentionedsbefore are to be seen in the little dry ravines that cut through the plain over which the road from Mutt to the Chnshal stream runs. [...] A closer inspection with some levelling would 1.wthink somewhat clear up the mystery attached to the huge masses of alluvial deposits seen in the valleys of all the great rivers of the western Himalayas from the Chang Chfingmi and Leh to Skardo in the valley of Kurgyl and valley of bras and on both the Jhelntn1868.] Notes on the Parkyong lake diAtrieg of Ladakh& 95 and Chandra-bagha (Chenab)

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55
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Contributions to Indian Malacology No. IX.—Descriptions of New Diplommatinæ from Darjiling and the Khasi Hills.—by William T. Blanford F.G.S. C.M.Z.S. &c.; to Accompany Captain Godwin-Austen’s Figures
77-83 The Natural History Secretary view
Figures of the Species of Diplommatina Benson Hitherto Described as Inhabiting the Himalayas Khasi Hills and Burma with Some Additional Forms from Darjiling and the Khasi Hills.—by Captain H. H. Godwin-Austen F.G.S. &c
83-84 The Natural History Secretary view
Notes on the Pangong Lake District of Ladakh from Journal Made in 1863.—by Captain H. H. Godwin-Austen F.R.G.S. Topographical Surveyor
84-117 The Natural History Secretary view
Notes on Geological Features of the Country Near foot of Hills in the Western Bhootan Dooars.—by Captain H. H. Godwin-Austen F.R.G.S. Topograpleial Survey
117-123 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-v The Natural History Secretary view

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