Photographs of India

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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