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At this station was distinctly heard the evening and 

 morning guns of the Goorkak forces in the neighbourhood ; 

 and the alarm created among my people increasing, in- 

 duced me to bend my course westward, for a base line pa- 

 rallel to the mountains, to ascertain their horizontal distance ; 

 which, in three days, brought us to the village of Biskur, or 

 station No. 4, bearing from station No. 3, (corrected for varia- 

 tion as before), S 77° 46' 21" VV,, and distant 24| British 

 statute miles. From this station No. 4, the snowy peaks, 

 corrected for variation, bear as follows : 



A. N. 20° 43' 39" E. 



B. N. 23° 5' 39" E. 



C. N. 31° 55' 39" E. 



D. N. 42° 26' 39" E. 

 AndE. N.49°13'39"E. 



The distances of the aforementioned five peaks resulting 

 from trigonometrical measurements, (and contained in a former 

 paper, which I had the honour of presenting to you,) approxi- 

 mate to those distances, which result from the intersection of 

 rhumb lines of the bearings of the peaks from the stations 

 Nos. 3 and 4. 



I remain, &c. 



B. Blake. 



