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tains called " Kanchinjinga" and "Mount Everest" the former being 

 28,156 feet and the latter 29,002 feet above mean sea level. To the 

 latter Mr. de Schlagintweit had added the name of " Gourisanker," 

 a name which he (Major T.) did not remember to have before heard. 

 It would be in the recollection of the Society that there was a very 

 animated discussion some time back on the subject of the native or 

 local appellation of this stupendous mountain, and that Mr. Brian 

 Hodgson had affixed to it the name of " Deodhunga." It had been 

 very clearly shewn to the Society, by his friend Colonel Waugh, how 

 impossible it was for any person, without entering Nipal and conduct- 

 ing measurements there in the vicinity of the great snowy mass 

 in question, to identify the peak which he had, after years of 

 research and computation, fixed by actual observation, and declare 

 it to be one and the same. For this reason he had therefore main- 

 tained his right to assign to the highest known mountain in the world, 

 until its own native designation could be established beyond all 

 doubt, a distinguished modern name, which had met with entire 

 approval from the Royal Geographical Society at home, as well as 

 with scientific men on the continent, and which, no doubt, would now 

 be inseparably connected with the mountain for generations to 

 come. 



Mr. de Schlagintweit had made no allusion to the point, and it was 

 therefore not known from whence he had obtained the name of 

 " Gourisanker" or from what authority he had deduced it. Probably 

 he had been able to derive information on this important subject 

 when he visited Katmandhoo from which place also, it was most 

 likely the view was taken, although this was not specified on the 

 picture, a point to be regretted, looking to the discussions which had 

 taken place and to the great interest which attached to the subject. 



Major Thuillier also informed the meeting that Mr. de Schlagintvveit's 

 letter stated that the King of Bavaria whose subjects they were, 

 had been pleased to confer on both brothers, titles of nobility, a dis- 

 tinction which they believed they owed to their important Mission 

 to India and to the liberal views and arrangements with which the 

 Indian Government at all times assisted them in completing it. 



Major Douglas exhibited a calculating machine, and explained the 



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