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PEEFACE.
XI
required for special purposes, an "Alphabetical Register of Heights'*
has been given, pp. 506—25.
The materials collected in this volume were, at the same time,
the basis for a "General Hypsometrical Tableau*1 (pp. 473—505), in
which we have attempted to compare the principal features of India
and High Asia with those of the Andes and the Alps.
In our Atlas of Panoramas, Views, and Maps, seven plates of
"Panoramic Profiles" are engravings, having special reference to the
hypsoinetry of High Asia. The profiles are parts of the large panoramas,
the most important of which will subsequently be given as complete
landscapes, coloured, with foreground and lateral scenery. The repre-
sentation in profile of numerous crests of snowy peaks in immediate
succession, and their combination with the hypsometrical details given
in this volume, are as yet, we believe, a novelty of the kind, and, it
is to be hoped, will prove useful in completing the orographical tableau
of these regions.
Following the principle adopted in our first volume, we here also
present the details of our observations, as far as we consider them
necessary. This is a plan which, though materially extending the
typographical matter, is generally followed in similar works, as it
renders possible a subsequent application of any, even minor improve-
ment which may arise under the gradual progress of science. We
have also taken care to give a list of the different observers, together
with their important labours; to these must be added the recent
operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, under Captain T. G.
Montgomerie, in Balti and Ladak, the results of which, we venture
to hope, will shortly be published.
It affords us particular pleasure to repeat our acknowledgements
for the valuable assistance, both official and private, that we have
received in furtherance of the work contained in this volume: in
XI
required for special purposes, an "Alphabetical Register of Heights'*
has been given, pp. 506—25.
The materials collected in this volume were, at the same time,
the basis for a "General Hypsometrical Tableau*1 (pp. 473—505), in
which we have attempted to compare the principal features of India
and High Asia with those of the Andes and the Alps.
In our Atlas of Panoramas, Views, and Maps, seven plates of
"Panoramic Profiles" are engravings, having special reference to the
hypsoinetry of High Asia. The profiles are parts of the large panoramas,
the most important of which will subsequently be given as complete
landscapes, coloured, with foreground and lateral scenery. The repre-
sentation in profile of numerous crests of snowy peaks in immediate
succession, and their combination with the hypsometrical details given
in this volume, are as yet, we believe, a novelty of the kind, and, it
is to be hoped, will prove useful in completing the orographical tableau
of these regions.
Following the principle adopted in our first volume, we here also
present the details of our observations, as far as we consider them
necessary. This is a plan which, though materially extending the
typographical matter, is generally followed in similar works, as it
renders possible a subsequent application of any, even minor improve-
ment which may arise under the gradual progress of science. We
have also taken care to give a list of the different observers, together
with their important labours; to these must be added the recent
operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, under Captain T. G.
Montgomerie, in Balti and Ladak, the results of which, we venture
to hope, will shortly be published.
It affords us particular pleasure to repeat our acknowledgements
for the valuable assistance, both official and private, that we have
received in furtherance of the work contained in this volume: in