Chorlconda a glacier in Balti, in Tibet, is in lat. 35° 36' and long, 75° 58' E., and 16,909 feet above the sea.
Ibi-Ganzin, a glacier in Eastern Tibet, in height 22,260 feet English = 20,886 French feet.
Captain Godwin-Austen, 24th Regiment, writing in 1863 on the glacier phenoznena of the valley of the Upper Indus, notices the glaciers in that part of the great Himalayan chain which separates Tibet from Yarkand, in lat. 35° to 36° N., and long. 76° E., and extending over an area about 100 miles from east to west, from Kara-korum peak No. 2 (28,265 feet), to the mountain of Haramosh. Glaciers supply the Hushe river, which joins the Indus opposite Kapelu. Those of the upper portion of the valley take their rise on the southern side of the peak of Masherbrum, and are about 10 miles in length.
The great Baltoro glacier takes its rise on the west of Mausherbrum. peak ; on the north it is joined by a great ice-feeder, which comes down from peak No. 2 ; opposite to it, from the south, is another. Both of these extend 9 or 10 miles on either side of the main glacier. This, from its iise to its further end, measures 30 miles ; its course is from E. to W. ; the breadth of the valley along which it flows is 12 miles. It receives nunaerous tributaries along its course, some of which are 10 miles and more in length ; two of them on the N. lead up to the Mustagh pass into Yarkand (18,000 feet), whence a glacier descenda to the N.E. about 20 miles in length.
The Nobuudi Sobundi glacier takes it,s rise from a broad ice-field which lies to the N. of lat. 36°, and has a S.E. course for 14 miles, with munerous laterals; it then turns S., when it bears the name ' of the Punmah glacier ; about 5 miles from the termination it. is joined by a glacier from the N.IV., 15 miles in length.
The Biafo glacier is perhaps the most remark able of any of this part of the Himalayan range ; it has a linear course of upwards of 40 miles ; the opposite sides of the valley are very parallel along its whole length, and the breadth of ice seldom exceeds a mile, except where the great feeders join it from the N.E. From the summit-level
of the Biafo Gause a glacier is continued westward to Hisper in Nagayr, 28 to 30 miles in length.
The Chogo, which terminates at Arundu, takes its rise between the mountain of Haramosh and the Nushik pass ; it is about 24 miles in length, with numerous branches from Haramosh, 8 miles in length.
The waters from all the glaciers, from .that of Baltoro in the E. to Chogo in the IV., are collected into the Shigar river, which joins the Indus at Skardo. All these glaciers carry great quantities of rock-detritus. The blocks on the Punmah glacier are of great size. There are groovings and old moraines of a former extension of the glaciers in this region, showing that they have at times reached many miles beyond their present termination, and have risen upwards of 400 feet above their present levels. There are thick alluvial accumulations of the valley of the bolus, prticu larly in the neighbourhood of Skardo.
The glaciers and peaks of the Sassarpass in Nubra, Tibet, are shown by the brothers Schlagentweit to be in lat. 35° to 36? N., and long. 77° 27' 35"E., and 17,753feet above the sea. Colonel Markham, describing the glacier from beneath which the Ganges issues, says:41 beheld it before me in all its savage grandeur, thickly studded with enormous loose rocks and earth. Extensive as my travels since this day have been through the.se beautiful mountains, and alpinist all the spleudid scenery I have looked on, I can,' he says, 'recall none so strikingly magnificent as the glacier of tho Ganges.4—Cunning. ; 'looker ; Thomson ; Strachey.