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THIS is a new volume of the fine series of works on Central Asia published by the Russian Geographical Society. M. Lipskiy describes in it his journey across the western portion of the beautiful snow-clad Hissar Range, then the valley of Kafirnagan and the Surkh-ob, which flows at the southern foot of this range, and finally the range of Peter the Great, which runs parallel to the former, south of the Surkh-ob. This last range M. Lipskiy crossed four times, following three different passes, and he explored in more detail the picturesque region of glaciers in the eastern portion of the range, east of the Gardán-i-kaftár Pass. Three great glaciers, to which the traveller gave the names of Borolmáz (from a peak of the same name). Peter the Great's, and Oshánin's (from the first ex plorer of this range), are described in detail, and the descriptions are accompanied by excellent photographs. It is sufficient for the glacialist to cast a glance at some of these photographs in order to say that the present glaciers must be but small remains of a much greatef glaciation, and that the valleys they now occupy must have once been filled deeply with ice. This is also the opinion of M. Lipskiy, who has discovered immense moraines across the upper valleys and other traces of a wide glaciation. The altitude of the range of Peter the Great seems to be less than it was supposed to be, namely, about 17,000 feet. That the Alai. Range is a continuation of the Hissar Range can now be taken as, certain, and consequently the range of Peter the Great must be a continuation of the Trans-Alai, a border-range of the western, Bukhara portion of the Pamir plateau. Traces of upheavals in a direction N.W. to S.E. seem also to exist. Throughout, in de scribing his mountaineering, M. Lipskiy gives” lists of the plants he saw.
The Highlands of Bukhara.
Part ii. Hissar, the Range of Peter the Great, and the Alai. St. Petersburg, 1902. By V. I. Lipskiy. Pp. 220; with 18 plates (Russian).
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K., P. The Highlands of Bukhara . Nature 69, 341 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069341b0
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