. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . d which, till recently, filled the valleysthroughout their length, as is proved by the moraines and roundedsurfaces not yet obliterated. These glaciers, by protecting thevalleys they occupied from river erosion, would thus prevent theadjustment which we should otherwise expect to have taken this protection by glaciers is a very potent factor is furtherillustrated by the raised floor preserved under the glacier, at thehead of the Rathong valley itself, not to invoke numberless instancesfrom other glaciated distri
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . d which, till recently, filled the valleysthroughout their length, as is proved by the moraines and roundedsurfaces not yet obliterated. These glaciers, by protecting thevalleys they occupied from river erosion, would thus prevent theadjustment which we should otherwise expect to have taken this protection by glaciers is a very potent factor is furtherillustrated by the raised floor preserved under the glacier, at thehead of the Rathong valley itself, not to invoke numberless instancesfrom other glaciated districts of the world. This protection was longago insisted on by Mr. Freshfield, in a paper read before the Geo-graphical Society in 1888, and subsequent observation has onlytended to confirm his views as there expressed. That the glaciers now found clustering round the higher peaksonce extended much further down their valleys we have ampleevidence. I have already mentioned the moraines found below Lachenat a height of 8790 feet; other instances are the moraines of Kang-.
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