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 THE HIMALAYA 2038

observations from one station only, rather than to take a number of observations from different stations, as is necessary and as was done in determining the absolute height of peaks. But in 1905 the Survey of India commenced a series of observations from one station, and it is proposed to observe the heights of several peaks for some years and at different seasons in each year. Then if a reliable series of results be once obtained, a similar set of observations can be repeated at a subsequent date, and any actual change of height that has occurred in the interval may be discovered.

Until these observations are made we cannot say for certain whether the great peaks are still rising.

Tur Mountain Rances

So far we have considered the isolated peaks rather than the ranges themselves. It remains to study these latter. All of them are popularly regarded as forming part of the “Himalayas.” But Himalaya—pronounced with the stress on the second syllable—simply means the “abode of snow”; and geographers have had to define the separate ranges into which this great Himalayan region is divided. The name of. the Great