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and of the Dhawalagiri (lat. 28 4.0', long. 83 21', altitude 4390? 

 toises, 28,072 English feet), were made known in Europe, the Chim- 

 borazo (3350 toises, or 21,421 English feet), according to my trigo- 

 nometric measurement, (Recueil d ; Observations astronomiques, t. i. 

 p. 73,) was still everywhere regarded as the highest summit on the 

 surface of the earth. The Himalaya now appeared, according as 

 the comparison was made with the Djawahir or the Dhawalagiri, 676 

 toises (4323 English .feet), or 1040 toises (6650 English feet) 

 higher than the Chimborazo. Pentland's South American travels, 

 in the years 1827 and 1838, fixed attention (Annuaire du Bureau 

 des Longitudes, 1830, pp. 320 and 323) on two snowy summits 

 of Upper Peru, east of the Lake of Titicaca, which were supposed 

 to surpass the height of the Chimborazo respectively by 598 and 403 

 toises (3824 and 2577 English feet). I have remarked above, p. 

 64, that the latest calculation of the measurements of the Sorata 

 and Illimani shows this view to be incorrect. The Dhawalagiri (on 

 the declivity of which, in the valley of the G-handaki, the Salagrana 

 Ammonites, so celebrated among the Brahmins as symbols of one 

 of the incarnations of Vishnu, are collected) therefore still shows a 

 difference between the culminating points of the Old and the New 

 Continents of more than 6200 Parisian, or 6608 English feet. 



The question has been raised, whether there may not exist behind 

 the southernmost more or less 'perfectly measured, chain, other still 

 greater elevations. Colonel G-eorge Lloyd, who in 1840 edited the 

 important observations of Captain Alexander Gerard and his brother, 

 entertains an opinion, that, in the part of the Himalaya which he 

 calls somewhat vaguely " the ' Tartaric chain" (meaning therefore 

 in north Thibet towards the Kuen-liin, and perhaps in Kailasa of 

 the sacred lakes, or beyond Leh), there are summits o from 29,000 

 to 30,000 English feet one or two thousand feet higher therefore 

 than the Dhawalagiri. (Lloyd and Gerard, Tour in the Himalaya, 

 1840, vol. i. pp. 143 and 312; Asie Centrale, t. iii. p. 324.) So 

 long as actual measurements are wanting, one cannot decide respect- 

 ing such possibilities; as the indication, from which the natives of 

 Quito, long before the arrival of Bouguer and La Condamine, recog- 

 nized the superior altitude of the Chimborazo (namely, from the 

 portion of its height above the region of perpetual snow being greater 



