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

 28,156 feet and the latfcer 29,002 feet abo ve mean sea level. To the 

 latter Mr. de Schlagintweifc liad added the ñame of " Gourisanker," 

 a ñame 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 ñame of "Deodhunga." It had been 

 very clearly shewn to the Society, by bis friend Colonel Waugh, hovv 

 impossibleit was for any person, without entering Ni pal 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, fíxed by actual observation, and declare 

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

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

 until its ovvn native designation could be established beyond all 

 doubt, a distinguished modern ñame, 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 generafcions to 

 come. 



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

 therefore not known from whence he had obtained the ñame 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 iníbrmed the meefcing that Mr. de Schlagintweit'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 

 lndian Government at all times assisted them in completing it. 



Major Douglas exhibited a calculating machine, and explained the- 



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