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THE reply which Mr. H. B. Medlicott has made to me in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 301, seems only to obscure rather than set aside or remove my objections. In the second sentence it is said that I “take geologists to task for not making their descriptions to fit in with my delineation of purely superficial features.” But my complaint was based, not on my delineation, but on a trigonometrical survey; and it was caused by a description—not of the geology, but of the physical geography of India, in connection with a map of its hill ranges, that has nothing geological about it. It is in this expressly geographical part of the manual that I find the greatest range of snowy peaks in the world omitted from a geographical notice and delineation of the Himalaya. I did not allude at all to geology.
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SAUNDERS, T. Mountain Ranges. Nature 21, 347–348 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021347d0
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