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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
Capt. A. Gerard, from whose letters on a survey of the middle valley of the Setlej, in the year 1818, a brief sketch of the geology of that part of the Himálaya was prepared, which has been inserted in the Geological Transactions (1st vol., New Series), has since continued to explore the same interesting portion of the great Indian chain of mountains. A short narrative of a visit to the same quarter, in 1820, was communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is published in the 10th volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, (page 295.) In the subsequent, year (1821) Capt. A. Gerard, with his brother, Mr. J. G. Gerard, more fully explored the same valley, to complete a geographical survey of it. Their diary, and the geological specimens collected by them, have, at their request, been freely communicated to me by the East-India Company, with the liberal permission of retaining a duplicate set of the specimens. This I accordingly have had the satisfaction of presenting to the Geological Society. But, as the diary contains particulars unconnected with geology, yet not devoid of interest in a more general view, I now offer to the notice of the Royal Asiatic Society a summary of it, interspersed with remarks, and including extracts of the more important passages.
page 344 note * Throughout the diary, with rare exceptions, I have retained Captain Gerard's names of plants. Probably the English names are not always rightly applied; or, if right generically, the species must be for the most part different. They will be corrected in an appendix, so far as I may be in possession of sufficient information for the purpose, before the present volume is closed.—H.T.C.
page 344 note † The heights of most remarkable places are calculated from corresponding observations of the barometer at Súbthú: the exact number of feet is in such instances noted. Others were obtained by differences, and they are put down to the nearest fifty feet.
page 345 note * Spalax (Mus typhlus)?
page 349 note * Composed of black mica (fine-grained), with a little oxide of iron.
page 354 note * Already visited by Capt. Gerard in 1818 and in 1820.
page 360 note * The apricots form a part of the subsistence of the people. At this season they are pulled, and exposed to the sun on the roofs of houses; when dried, they are not unlike prunes.
page 370 note * The particulars of the measurement are omitted.—C.