5/6 Miscellaneous. [Nov. 



Letter from Dr. Campbell, on the Elevation of Peaks in the 

 Himalaya, fyc. 



To the Secretaries Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Gentlemen, — I am enabled, by the kindness of Colonel Waugh, the 

 Surveyor General of India, to furnish the Society with the following 

 results of the operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey in this part 

 of the Himalaya in 1847. 



I have also the pleasure to forward a small and beautifully executed 

 Chart of a portion of the Survey, received from Colonel Waugh some 

 months ago. 



It was sent to me after the publication in the Society's Journal of 

 my Itinerary to Phari, to illustrate Colonel Waugh' s views regarding 

 the position of the celebrated "Chumalari" and of the " Chola" 

 mountain of that Itinerary. When Colonel Waugh left this place in 

 November last, after having satisfied himself in the course of his previ- 

 ous operations of the position of " Chumalari," by observations from 

 Tonglo and Sinchal, I took some Lepchas and Bhotiahs who had 

 travelled into Thibet by the Phari route, with me to the top of Sinchal, 

 to point out Chumalari to them ; as they were positive in stating their 

 belief that it was not visible from any part of this neighbourhood, 

 when I said "there is Chumalari," the whole party exclaimed — "No, 

 it is Chola, and not Chumalari." I took pains to ascertain the rea- 

 sons of their dissent, and afterwards wrote an epitome of them to 

 Colonel Waugh, who thanked me for doing so, said he would file my 

 note with the other documents, and while adhering to his former opi- 

 nion said, as far as I recollect — " but you may rely upon it that I shall 

 not finally decide the point until you are satisfied that I am right." 

 Thus the matter rested until Colonel Waugh got a copy of my Itinerary 

 to Phari, from the Journal for April last, when he informed me that the 

 delay with respect to the results of the Darjeeling Trigonometrical 

 operations, although greater than he had anticipated, could not then be 

 considered a matter of regret, as it had put him in possession of evid- 

 ence to prove the identity of his mountain with the great Chumalari of 

 Thibet. " The evidence alluded to," he said, " is contained in your 

 paper published in the Asiatic Society's Journal for April 1848. This 

 valuable contribution to conjectural Geography, has arrived in good time 



