White Mountain of HimuUtya. 241 



Arguments were likewise deduced from observations of 

 Colonel R. Hyde Colebrooke and Colonel Crawfor^i, for the dti- 

 tude of other lofty peaks ; many exceeding 22,000 feet, and 

 some rising to 24,000, and even 25,000 feet. 



These calculations and estimates of elevation were exhibited 

 as a mere approach towards a determination of the true height, 

 yet substantiating the general position that the HinMaya is the 

 loftiest known range of mountains; its most elevated peaks 

 greatly exceeding the highest of the Andes. 



That position, as well as the approximated determination of 

 heights on which it was grounded, has been controverted. But 

 the course of political events having since afforded facility of 

 access which was before denied by the jealousy of the Gurkhuli 

 Mountaineers, accurate measurements, both barometric and 

 trigonometric, of a great number of points, in the vicinity of the 

 upper Ganges, Jumna, and Setlej rivers, have been carefully 

 taken by different Surveyors, which irrefragably establish the 

 general position of the transcendent altitude of the Him&laya : 

 and a great multitude of peaks have been determined, which 

 exceed 22,000 feet; a few rising above 23,000; and one mea- 

 sured by Captain Webb, no less than 25,669 feet. 



These however do not equal the stupendous altitude of 

 Dhawalayiri, or the White Mountain; also named Ghtikoti. 

 The routes of travels and surveys have not hitherto been di- 

 rected to its vicinity. Their direction has been towards the 

 upper Ganges and the Setlej. The more easterly mountains, 

 toward the sources of the great Gandhac, have not been ap- 

 proached ; and the measurement of the White Mountain, taken 

 from the plains of Gorakhpur, is yet to be confirmed by obser- 

 vations from nearer stations. 



Previously, however, to the occurrence of those events, which 

 have been alluded to as having laid open the mountainous confines 

 of Hindustan to research, observations had been again made in 

 the plains of Gorakhpur to determine the elevation of Dhawala- 

 tjiri, on the same principle on which Captain Webb proceeded 

 during his previous survey in that province. Captain Blake, 

 to whose labours these further observations are due, has been so 



