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has a S. W. direction from Kuti to Dallalghat." Vide Memo, on the 

 seven Cosis. 



Now, on comparing Mr. Hodgson's sketch with the accompanying 

 chart which exhibits all our peaks laid down between Katmandu 

 and Darjiling, it will be seen that it is not likely the Bhootia 

 Cosi could have its sources at our Mount Everest, because it 

 appears to me, as far as I can judge, that the Dud Cosi, 

 which rises "amid the perpetual snows," and also the Arun Cosi, 

 would be to the left and right of Mount Everest respectively, so 

 that it does not seem clear how the Bhootia Cosi, can originate 

 from our Mount Everest. 



Again Mr. Hodgson says, " This great mass is visible alike from 

 the confiues of Nepal Proper, (the valley,) and from those of 

 Sikkim, and all the more unmistakeably, because it has no com- 

 petitor for notice in the whole intervening space. It is precisely- 

 half way between Gosainthan which overlooks Nepal Proper, and 

 Kanchang which overlooks Sikkim." Now a slight computation 

 will serve to shew that Mount Everest is invisible from the valley, 

 being depressed nearly one minute and thirty seconds below XVIII. 

 The most conspicuous mass visible from Katmandu or the valley 

 would be our Peaks XIX. and XX. Nor is Mount Everest visible 

 from the confines of Sikkim, as Major Sherwill did not see it any- 

 where on his route from Singelelah to Kanglanamo, the height of 

 the latter place, Major Sherwill estimates to be 13,000 feet. He 

 says, " One Mountain in the Nepal range is a most remarkable 

 object, both for its curious shape and for its immense height, its 

 name none of my party knew, nor have I yet succeeded in obtaining 

 the name. The Peak is a hollow crater-like mountain, probably 

 27,000 feet in height with a long table mountain attached to it, 

 both covered with glaciers. To the west of this great mountain are 

 five distinct Peaks separating the large mountain from a hollow 

 shell-like and perpendicular mountain about 26,000 feet in height." 

 (Notes upon a tour*in the Sikkim Himalaya mountains. J. A. S., 

 No. VIII. 1853.) The mountain here alluded to is our XIII., the 

 height of which is 27,779 feet, Mount Everest being depressed 

 nearly 14 minutes below XIII. 



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