20 Memorandum on the Survey of Kashmir. [No. 1, 



Memorandum on the Survey of Kashmir in progress under Captain 

 T. G. Moktgomeeib, Bengal Engineers, F. B. G. S. and the Topo- 

 graphical Map of the Valley and surrounding Mountains, with chart 

 of the Triangulation of the same executed in the Field Office and 

 under the Superintendence of Lt. -Colonel A. Scott "VVattgh, F. B. S. 

 F. R. G. S. Surveyor General of India, Dehra Dhoon, May 1859. 

 Bead at a Meeting of the Asiatic Society on the 6th of July, 1859. 

 By Major H. L. Thttillier, F. B. G. S. Deputy Surveyor General 

 of India. 



In No. 263 of the Asiatic Journal for 1857 a paper was published 

 by Lieutenant (now Captain) Montgomerie of the Bengal Engineers, 

 1st Assistant Great Trigonometrical Survey of India on the height 

 of the Nanga Parbut and other snowy mountains of the Himalaya 

 range adjacent to Kashmir ; and it was therein stated that although 

 not equal to Mount Everest (29,002 feet) still the Nanga Par- 

 but (26,629 feet) was as much the king of the Northern Hima- 

 layas as Mount Everest is the king of the Southern Himalaya. 

 I have now the satisfaction, through the kind consideration of my 

 friend Colonel Waugh, of laying before the Society, the actual results 

 of the progress of this magnificent and unparalleled survey, up to a 

 very recent date, and the maps now presented to the view of the 

 meeting, together with the few details I am about to read, will prove 

 better than anything else, the value and the character of the great 

 national work which the Surveyor General of India is now rapidly 

 carrying out to completion — a work which I believe will bear a 

 comparison with any geographical operation undertaken in any country 

 with which we are acquainted. 



As the operations proceed, the labours of the Surveyors are rewarded 

 with discoveries which certainly of late years have been but of 

 infrequent occurrence, Another stupendous mountain has been mea- 

 sured and fixed by Captain Montgomerie, which perhaps is second in 

 the world only to the one above alluded to, viz. Mount Everest, as 

 measured by Col. "Waugh in 1847. A snowy peak very nearly in 

 the ray of Skardo from Sirinagur and distant N. E. about one hun- 

 dred and fifty -eight miles from that capital, on the Kara Koram 



