afterwards it no doubt trends towards the west. On the south rises an imposing range, in part capped with snow. Here the altitude reached 4944 m. The ground is strewn with gravel, but when we began to climb up to the next pass it became soft, with a slight sprinkling of grass. The acclivity was gentle, though quite noticeable. On our right, that is to the north, we had a range that exhibited the usual wild and broken outlines; and beyond it ran a latitudinal valley parallel to that which we were following. The pass is flat, reaches an altitude of 5032 m., and is distinguished by an obo with fluttering rags. Only a few minutes farther towards the south-
south-east we had to climb over yet another threshold pass at about the same altitude. Between these two passes lies a small Mulde, with glens sweeping down to it from the crest of the range on the south. After uniting into one, they break through the northern range, making for the north-west, and running close past a smaller level clay expanse, which is separated from the transverse glen by a very flat and insignificant threshold. The latter looked as if it would have afforded us a nearer and more convenient road; but instead of striking into it, our guides led us up to the second threshold pass. From its summit we had a magnificent view across a wild mountainous country to the south, where however two immense ranges, fantastic and serrated, could readily be distinguished. Of these the nearer one is pierced by a big )glen gateway»; while the outlines of the remoter range are more rounded, though it is also higher and carries more snow on its summit. Between us and these ranges there is a big latitudinal valley, sloping down towards the
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