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being respectively eighty and ninety miles off, they raised 

 their gigantic heads above, seeming what they really were, 

 by far the loftiest peaks next to Kinchinjunga ; and the 

 perspective of snow is so deceptive, that though 40 to 60 

 miles beyond, they appeared as though almost in the same 

 line with the ridges they overtopped. Of these mountains, 

 Chumulari presents many attractions to the geographer, 

 from its long disputed position, its sacred character, and the 

 interest attached to it since Turner's mission to Tibet in 

 1783. It was seen and recognised by Dr. Campbell, and 

 measured by Colonel Waugh, from Sinchul, and also from 

 Tonglo, and was a conspicuous object in my subsequent 

 journey to Tibet. Beyond Junnoo, one of the western peaks 

 of Kinchinjunga, there was no continuous snowy chain ; 

 the Himalaya seemed suddenly to decline into black and 

 rugged peaks, till in the far north-west it rose again in a 

 white mountain mass of stupendous elevation at 80 miles 

 distance, called, by my Nepal people, " Tsungau." * 

 From the bearings I took of it from several positions, it is 

 in about lat. 27° 49' and long. 86° 24', and is probably 

 on the west flank of the Arun valley and river, which 

 latter, in its course from Tibet to the plains of India, 

 receives the waters from the west flank of Kinchinjunga, 

 and from the east flank of the mountain in question. It 

 is perhaps one which has been seen and measured from 

 the Tirhoot district by some of Colonel Waugh's party, 

 and which has been reported to be upwards of 28,000 feet 

 in elevation ; and it is the only mountain of the first class 

 in magnitude between Gosainthan (north-east of Kat- 

 mandoo) and Kinchinjunga. 



* This is probably the easternmost and loftiest peak seen from Katmandoo, 

 distant 78 miles, and estimated elevation 20,117 feet by Col. Crawford's obser- 

 vations. See "Hamilton's Nepal," p. 346, and plate 1. 



