Report of the Mineralogical Survey 



[No. 126*. 



Peak or Pass. 



Elevation. 



Remarks. 





Feet above 









Sea. 







Mahasoo Temple, 



9,265 



( The Camp was 8,965 feet, 

 \ pie 300 more. 



tern- 



Juke Peak, ... 



8,120 







Tarba, ... 



5,000 







Kimdera Pass, ... 



4,989 







Kol Peak, 



7,612 







Ujmergurh, ... 



4,000 







Bhoora Peak, ... 



6,489 







Suran Village, ... 



5,500 







Bonvtee Debee,... 



5,120 







Jytuk Fort, ... 



4,854 







Gutasun Debee, ; . . 



2,500 



Not measured. 





Sandstone Hills, 



3,000 



Ditto. 





Foot of Hills, 



1,500 



Ditto. 





28. A geologist of some eminence, and remarkable for the soundness 

 of his views says, that " writers have erroneously confounded the line of 

 greatest elevation with a chain of water-heads." If we take a survey 

 of the present tract, we shall every where see this opinion confirmed. 

 The range ahove described, is that which separates the two river systems 

 of the Ganges and the Indus, the principal drains on the side of 

 India from the central plateau. But it is by no means the highest 

 ground, for it is within these basins, and not on their common boundary, 

 that are found disposed those elevated peaks, the real height of which 

 has so long formed a subject of discussion, 16 and from which, as consi- 

 dered the highest summits of the globe, this tract derives one of its 

 principal sources of interest. 



29. The term Himmala, generally applied to these peaks, means 

 snowy, so that it is rather descriptive of a broad zone or belt, than of a 

 series of peaks as distinguished from the lower ridges in their imme- 

 diate vicinity. They have been called a chain, yet no term is less des- 

 criptive of the manner in which they are arranged ; neither are they a 



16 It is a curious fact in the history of science the extreme slowness and even un- 

 willingness with which this result has been admitted. Theoretical considerations 

 founded on an experiment in an air pump were held to be sufficient grounds for 

 doubting of our Indian observers. "Jurare in verbo magistri" was the order of the 

 day, and the authority of a name was considered sufficient to justify doubts of results 

 which should have been judged of on their own merits alone. The infallibility of 

 their own dogmas was never even questioned. 



