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plains, are two peaks, rising from the same mountain mass, for 

 they are but four and a half miles asunder. The highest of the 

 two is Chandragiri, or Mountain of the Moon, a name common 

 to many others. Its elevation is 22,607 feet; that of the con- 

 tiguous lower peak is 21,533 feet above Gorakhpdr ; or 23,007 

 feet and 21,935 feet respectively, above the sea. 



These altitudes, though much short of Dhawulagiri, tend to 

 corroborate the estimate of its great elevation : for it may be 

 seen in Captain Blake's sketch of the appearance of this por- 

 tion of the snowy range, how greatly Dhawalagiri overtops the 

 rest, lofty as they are. 



It is to be hoped that some traveller may be induced to 

 visit the Himdlaya in that quarter, and explore the great 

 Gandhaki river to its source at the foot of Dhawalagiri, and de- 

 termine the elevation of the mountain by observations at the 

 nearest accessible heights. Besides other subjects of research, 

 it presents one of much interest in the abundance of organic 

 remains there found : for it is thence that devout Hindus are 

 supplied with Ammonites, an object of their idolatrous worship, 

 under the appellation of Salagrama. 



H. T. C. 



To H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. ^c. S^c. Sfc. 

 Dear Siii, 



Having been appointed, by the Government of Bengal, in 

 the year 1812, to survey the extensive province of Gorakhpur; 

 that year, the whole of 1S13, and part of 1814, were occupied 

 ^ in surveying the southern portion, or that division of the pro- 

 vince, lying south of the Gograh, or Great Saryti River. 

 Proceeding northward, at the subsidence of the rains, in 1814, 

 I had on the 1st of November near the village of Urwdra a 

 distinct view of the snowy summits of the Himdlaya moun- 

 tains ; and from this station I took, with one of Troughton's 

 theodolites (of six inches radius), the bearings and elevations 

 of five of the snowy peaks, being those that were most remark- 

 able ; of which three possess names, and two are anonymous : 

 the former are well known to the inhabitants of the subjacent 



