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slight attack of fever, but Mr. O'Neill suffered severely, and has not 

 yet recovered, and the natives of the party were also, more or less, 

 incapacitated by fever, so that but for the assistance afforded by the 

 Rajah of Jeypore, the operations would have been stopped almost at 

 their very commencement. The results are, a good preliminary map 

 of Jeypore, which has been forwarded to the Surveyor General, to be 

 lithographed and published ; a report by Captain Basevi, giving details 

 of his route, and a general description of the country ; several valuable 

 astronomical determinations of latitudes and longitudes, and baro- 

 metrical determinations of heights ; also memoranda of various other 

 routes, the details of which were obtained from native information. 

 In consideration of the great value of Captain Basevi's services, he 

 has been permitted to proceed to Europe on furlough for one year, 

 during which his appointment will be kept open for him. 



During the summer of 1862, the Field Season of the Kashmir 

 Survey Party, the triangulation made great progress to the east of 

 Leh, and stations were fixed on the Chinese Frontier, from which a 

 number of peaks in Tartary were determined. Some of these were 

 more than one hundred miles distant, and will materially aid in the 

 construction, from native information, of maps of districts into which 

 the surveyors will probably be unable to penetrate. Several of the 

 stations observed from were over 20,000 feet in height above the sea, 

 and Mr. Johnson visited one peak of a height of no less than 21,072 

 feet, but, owing to a very heavy fall of snow, was unable to observe 

 from it. 



A great many points were fixed in the Pangkong district. The 

 whole of Astor was triangulated, aad several peaks were fixed to 

 the north of Gil git ; none of these were of any great height, the 

 highest being only a little over 19,000 feet. The natural dinaeulties 

 of the country were at first much enhanced by bad weather, which 

 came on with the heavy rains in the southern and outer Himalayan 

 Eanges. Notwithstanding these circumstances the out-turn of work 

 has been good, and the general progress very satisfactory, the total 

 area of the triangulation being about 10,500 square miles, and of 

 topography 10,400 square miles, on the scale of four miles to the 

 inch. 



The topographical operations made good progress, though not 

 so great as would have been the case had all the assistants retained 



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