I had <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">previously</add> visited <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> & spent some days North of <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28°., discovering <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the source of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067">Arun River</placeName>, which flows from the West of 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/H5697072">Kamtchoo Lakes</placeName>, behind <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin-Junga</placeName>, to its exit from the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>M<hi rendition="#sup">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> of <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" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepaul</placeName>. From what I saw, & from the very full information which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I collected, I am now convinced that the Snowed <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">s</supplied> do not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />form an individual Mountain-Chain; but that they consist of <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>groupes</orig> <reg>groups</reg> </choice> of snowy Peaks, widely separated from one another, & are parts, or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Meridional Spurs of a far more lofty range of Mountains, between the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great Masses of Snow, & the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Yarou-Tsamper river</placeName>. The Southern <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water shed is behind all the snows, often ½ a degree & more; & 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/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>an frontier runs along the line of watershed behind, as often as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />along the ridges of Snow. <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Yarou</placeName> & the snow, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is, as you have well described it, a lofty rugged & quite impractica<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />ble country; though none of the Peaks, North of the watershed on that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Line, reach the elevation of the snowy ones.