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AREA VIII.
WESTERN HIMALAYA, FROM KAMAON TO HAZARA.
Diagonal, from south-east to north-west: Almora via Simla and Srinagger to Rajaur.
The geographical provinces of this area, the western termination of which we
consider at the same time as the end of the Himalaya, are the following:
Notwithstanding its great extent, and the variety of its physical features, the
hypsometrical details1 are more numerous and complete than for the Eastern Hima-
laya, Not only were some of the provinces of this area, as Kamaon and Oarhval,
among the very first explored by Europeans, but they were also easier of access,
parts of them, as early as 1817, having become subject to British rule.
The compilation of the heights situated in this area, proved to be one of the
most laborious tasks in the working out of the present volume; at first it seemed
scarcely possible to decide with any certainty upon the original observer. In most
cases, the heights already to be found in various books are quoted without the name
of the authority upon which they are based; and it was only by carefully tracing
back the determinations to their very earliest sources, that we were finally enabled
to assign them to the right persons. Wherever one place has been determined by
various observers, we have given the result obtained by each,2 though, from the nature
of the instruments at their disposal, it is no matter for surprise, that discrepancies,
sometimes of considerable magnitude, frequently occur.
1 An enumeration of the various materials is given pp. 8 and 9.
2 In the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1834, Vol. IV. p. 376, et seq., Capt, Webb gives
a list of places determined by him, all of which we could not embody, as he omits to state which of the various
results obtained by him for the same places he considers as the final one.
2. Garhval,
3. Simla.
4. Kulu,
1. Kamaon
5. Chamba,
6. Jamu,
7. Rajauri,
8. Lahol,
9. Kishtvar,
10. Kashmir,
11. Marri.
WESTERN HIMALAYA, FROM KAMAON TO HAZARA.
Diagonal, from south-east to north-west: Almora via Simla and Srinagger to Rajaur.
The geographical provinces of this area, the western termination of which we
consider at the same time as the end of the Himalaya, are the following:
Notwithstanding its great extent, and the variety of its physical features, the
hypsometrical details1 are more numerous and complete than for the Eastern Hima-
laya, Not only were some of the provinces of this area, as Kamaon and Oarhval,
among the very first explored by Europeans, but they were also easier of access,
parts of them, as early as 1817, having become subject to British rule.
The compilation of the heights situated in this area, proved to be one of the
most laborious tasks in the working out of the present volume; at first it seemed
scarcely possible to decide with any certainty upon the original observer. In most
cases, the heights already to be found in various books are quoted without the name
of the authority upon which they are based; and it was only by carefully tracing
back the determinations to their very earliest sources, that we were finally enabled
to assign them to the right persons. Wherever one place has been determined by
various observers, we have given the result obtained by each,2 though, from the nature
of the instruments at their disposal, it is no matter for surprise, that discrepancies,
sometimes of considerable magnitude, frequently occur.
1 An enumeration of the various materials is given pp. 8 and 9.
2 In the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1834, Vol. IV. p. 376, et seq., Capt, Webb gives
a list of places determined by him, all of which we could not embody, as he omits to state which of the various
results obtained by him for the same places he considers as the final one.
2. Garhval,
3. Simla.
4. Kulu,
1. Kamaon
5. Chamba,
6. Jamu,
7. Rajauri,
8. Lahol,
9. Kishtvar,
10. Kashmir,
11. Marri.