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This paper reports on the analysis of the high-J emission lines of the $\nu 2(e\prime )$ band of $H3+$ described at last year's Symposium, together with new absorption measurements using diode laser sources and the same type of hollow-cathode cell that have confirmed some of the emission measurments and extended them to lower wavenumbers. These high-J lines show clearly the effects of the perturbation of the $\nu 2(e\prime )$ state by the $\nu 1(a1\prime )$ state, even although the pure vibrational separtion between them is about $650cm-1$. Pits of these data together with the lower-J $lines1$, using both effective Hamiltonian and supermatrix models that include the $(\nu 1,\nu 2)$ interaction explicitly, will be reported.