The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-12
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.
Tine HlmAlAYA.

Second Lecture Of Professor Won Schla.
sintweit-Intercsting Disclosares.
Professor Rudolph Won Schlagintweit delivered
his second lecture the "Himaaya Mountainsr last
evening at Stelnway Hail. The one already reported
in the HERALD on Tuesday last was mere general
outline Of the whole course and 1t was followed on
the Tuesday evening by description OF the ap-
proaches to the Himalaya Mountains and their ap.
pearance southwark. Last evening this was con-
tinued by very interesting picture OF the Vale OF
Cashmere and Of the passes which lead through
the mountain range known as the Himaaya.
IL is impossible TO give anything like truthful re.
capituation, In the limited space OF paragraph, OF
all the varied information which the Professors ex
tended experience In that country enabled him to
present TO his hearers His description Of Srinagar
80 well known in history and remembered
by all who were ever charmed by Tom MOore's
Oriental phantasy OF Lallah Rookh;" the highly pic
tincty visible by the unusual clearness OF the at
mosphere-all these were presented in light and
with an impressive beauty OF language but rarely en-
joycd. Even NurmahaI, the "Queen OF Light" whom
the Irish 0rentast named above exhausts the Eng
lsh language TO depict is shown by the professor in
her natural estate and historic verify The etymology
OF the word was traced to beautiful fable deriving
its origin from Kdsydpd ito change the sea into
gardenL the Vale OF Cashmere being evidently but
the bottom OF sea In times tmmemOriay past;
the change Of that name to Kasyapore to Kashpore
and finally to kashmere and that another tradition
derives the name from Kasyash Mare-all this was
given with the clcarness OF definition and precise
ness OF statement SO peculiar 10 the logical mind OF
the German.
The Professor in speaking OF the peculiarities Of
the Valley OF Cashmere referred TO what he called
the intermittent sprngs''-the SOnda Breri-which
dry up and I'LL again three times day-mOrnlng,
noon and evening" lie then passed on to a dcscrip-
ti6n OF the rocky wilderness OF the valley OF
BhaghiIathi, with its passes OF steep decllvity,
where with the utmost care, 1t is almost impossible
for horses to get through. very amusing incident
told that the natives could never remember his
name but instead OF Schagintweit they called him
Saladin In Paris. the boosted centre Of European
civilization, the same thing occurred to him, as the
president OF scientific society introduced him rs
fOl0ws:-'JGt ptO1tebr de DOtLS presenter Monsieur
Sclid0 et ctela"-I have the honor to introduce TO
mend0us heights to which the peaks in the Hlmalaya
reach Professor Won Schlagintweit stated that he
and his brothers measured ZIG OF them, OF which
II are over 25,0 600 feet, 40 over $4,000 and 100
over 70, 900 feet while Mont Blanc, the greatest
mountain in Europe, only rises to an altitude
Of l5,7s4 feet In biographies heretofore the
Dhawalaghiri OF the Himalaya range was mentioned
as the highest peak, but after measurement 1t was
found to be 32o feet; higher peaks were measured
and he gave them as fOllOws:-Sihsur, q, 709 Kan
chinjinga, 2S 1885, and Gaursankar COZ feet above
the sea- the latter being in northern latitude twenty
seven degrees hftynine minutes, and twentysix de-
grees, ffty-1ve minutes eastern longitude from
across the Himalaya, the highest the ib-i('amin.
20 459 feet the lowest BaraLacha. L. 1855 feet above
the level OF the ocean. AZ remarkable fact 1t ls
worth mentioning that our own tame barnyard
fowls were found in that elevated region as wild
birds, indigenous to the country. The Professor
Of that hitherto unknown country. and concluded
amid loud applause, announcing his next lecture on
Tuesday of next week, to be on the pecuarities oil
the second range Of mountains, the Karak orum.