In all these cases the confusion <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />arises from the different view <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />taken of what is to be called <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />North & South slope. If we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regard that part of the chain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampu</placeName> & Plain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> as <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName>, we may <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />confidently say that the Snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the south slope is on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />average at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 feet</measure>, & on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the north slope at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>t</orig> <reg>T</reg> </choice>hat is to say, that in travelling <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />south from the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampu</placeName> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">& ascending</add> you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will hardly meet with any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />snow below <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure> except <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the North slopes of ridges that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rise above that; whereas <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">that</del><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="37v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">6</fw>if you advance North, ascending <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the Plains of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will meet <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">with</add> plenty at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 <lb />feet</measure>. It is further to be borne <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in mind that by keeping in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any of the large river valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you may cross from the Plains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampu</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />without crossing any snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at all – With regard to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName>, the chains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are there so inextricably <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />complicated & all of so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform a mean height <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the amount & duration <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of perpetual snow is pretty <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform in most parts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that are beyond <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">or north of</add> the Southern<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="38r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">7</fw> chains. There is nowhere <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName> a definite <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">Snow line</hi> such as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />there appears to be on the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002454">Andes</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />For the breadth of the mass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is much greater & it is every<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />where cut up by meridional <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />tortuous valleys.