This not being the Easternmost Pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />over the range into <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>, & ergo not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the nearest accessible point to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />top in <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> I determined on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my return to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong</placeName> to visit the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valley <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> of this whence a loftier pass<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hardly used, leads to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> – Descending <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723">Tambur</placeName> I turned up the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350">Yangma</placeName> <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6v" />valley which expanded into a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />broad treeless gorge full of Lake beds<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The Lake beds are confined by enormous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />dams of rock which have been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />projected across the valley when the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whole was under water. When in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />short the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> plain was accumulating <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />its deposits of Gravel (<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1000" unit="foot">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> thick <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have been measured in <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the waters standing at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="15000" unit="foot">15000</measure> in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350">Yangma valley</placeName> have left on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flanks of that valley parallel roads <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as beautiful as those of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020504 https://www.geonames.org/2639027">Glen Roy</placeName> in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010167 https://www.geonames.org/2638360">Scotland</placeName>. Lateral gulleys have floated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rocks into the valley upon Bergs <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bridging it completely across, so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that on the retirement of the waters <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these bridges formed dams. The <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Terraces are on both sides the valley <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />above the Lake beds<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> are perfectly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parallel<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> rise in steppes along the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />steep <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> faces<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & are every where <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />strewed with enormous blocks of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rock – In these lateral glacial valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />small patches of glacial Ice now <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />alone are found<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & the gravel & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rubbish are disposed by them, as the<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7r" />enormous blocks (<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20" unit="yard">20 yds</measure> long) were by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the greater Ice action in past eras.