Janus: Photographs of India

RCS/Y3022C-E/Y3022C contains:
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27	Jhula bridge across the Spiti River, between Dunkar and Mani
28	The Manining Pass, elevation 18,600 ft
29	Junction of the Spiti and Sutlej Rivers
30	View from the Thibet [Tibet] road at Pangi
31	Specimen of edible pine, Chini district
32	Ice cave in the glacier, the source of the Buspa
33	Snow scene in the Neela Pass
34	Wooded valley from Fulaldaru
35	Rocky channel of the Ganges at Bhairamghati
36	The source of the Ganges, ice cave at the foot of the glacier, elevation 22,621 ft [sic]
37	Mount Moira [elevation 22,621 ft]
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Title	Ice cave in the glacier, the source of the Buspa
Reference	Y3022C/32
Creator	Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer
Covering Dates	1866

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297 x 240 mm. View looking towards the ice cave at the foot of the glacier, with the Buspa stream issuing from it and mountain peaks in the distance, 'The stupendous glacier in which the Buspa has its source fills up completely the head of the valley - an enormous block of ice hundreds of feet in thickness and several miles long (as far as I could judge, probably ten or fifteen), but I did not explore it. The stream issues at its foot (a full-blown river at once) out of an immense ice cave, called by the natives the 'cow's mouth', which is the name also given to the similar cave from which the Ganges issues. I was fortunate in having a fine, clear morning following the day of my arrival at this spot, and was thus enabled to obtain three excellent negatives of the cave, the glacier, and the peaks by which it was surrounded', (B.J.P., 4 March 1870, p. 29). Bourne no. 1526.

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