This third lake-basin is of about the same dimensions as the second. We marched beside it due north-west. In some places the offshoots of the northern range approach quite close to the shore, choking it with vast gravelly screes, on which scrub grows but seldom. The range along the southern side continued and its offshoots reached down to the water's edge. It is wild, craggy, and broken up by a great number of side-glens; it culminates in sharp pyramidal peaks, but without snow. Just opposite the end of the lake a big transverse glen breaks through from the south, consisting of two subsidiary glens, one coming directly from the
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