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

 above, pp. 53-54, that the latest calculation of the measure- 

 ments of the Sorata and Illimani shews this view to be in- 

 correct. The Dhawalagiri (on the declivity of which, in the 

 valley of the Ghandaki, the Salagrana Ammonites, so cele- 

 brated among the Brahmins as symbols of one of the incar- 

 nations of Vishnu, are collected) therefore still shews 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 mea- 

 sured chain, other still greater elevations. Colonel George 

 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-llin, and perhaps in Kailasa 

 of the sacred lakes, or beyond Leh) there are summits of 

 from 29000 to 30000 English feet, one or two thousand 

 feet higher therefore than the Dawalagiri. (Lloyd and 

 Gerard, Tour in the Himalaya, 1840, vol. i. p. 143 and 312; 

 Asie Centrale, T. iii. p. 324.) So long as actual measure- 

 ments are wanting, one cannot decide respecting such possibi- 

 lities; as the indication, from which the natives of Quito, long 

 before the arrival of Bouguer and La Condamine, recognised 

 the superior altitude of the Chimborazo (namely, from the 

 portion of its height above the region of perpetual snow 

 being greater than in any of the other mountains), might 



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