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embraces the Punjab and Sind will afford the verification desired by 

 completing the circuit from the mean sea level at Kurrachee, round 

 the Punjab and back to the same point. 



Though the internal checks on the heights of any Gr. T. Survey 

 series are in themselves complete, still slight errors may creep in 

 which can only be detected on the completion of the levelling from 

 sea to sea. Hence a small correction may hereafter be applied to 

 the heights of the Kashmir series, though as I before said, it is not 

 likely to affect materially the values that I now send you. 



Hitherto the Nanga Parbat, which is also called Dayarmur, has 

 been put down as 19,000 feet above the sea, being nearly a mile and 

 a half below its actual elevation. Eather a bad shot for conjectural 

 geography. 



Though by no means equal to mount Everest,* still the Nanga 

 Parbat is as much the king of the northern Himalayas as mount 

 Everest is the king of the southern Himalayas. 



My series has already added to the Gr. T. Survey all the peaks to 

 the south of the Indus, and now the Gr. T. Survey may be said to 

 have fixed all the peaks in the Himalayas with the exception of a 

 few about the sources of the river Indus. 



During my three days' residence on the snowy mountain Hara- 

 mook, at upwards of 16,000 feet above the sea, I had several fine 

 views of the Karakoorarn range and of the ranges to the north of 

 the Indus. Amongst others two very fine peaks were visible 

 beyond the general outline of the Mustagh and Karakoorarn ranges. 

 These two peaks promise to be high. They were well but faintly 

 defined against the sky being probably about 150 miles from me. 

 I hope to have the pleasure of sending you their heights at the 

 beginning of next year. 



The memorandum includes several well known mountains such as 

 " Ser" and " Mer," Haramook, Baltal, &c. The heights now given 

 do not agree with those that have hitherto been taken for granted 

 by former explorers. 



I trust the accompanying heights and positions may prove a 

 useful and interesting contribution to accurate geograghy. 



Dliera Dhoon, Tllh January, 1857. 



* Deo-dhumm. — Ed. 



