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contradicts Mr. Hodgson, and I for one prefer the evidence it gives 

 to any that may be derived from the fallible rendering of fallible 

 informants. 



Mr. Hodgson further undertakes to find the name of any object 

 whose bearing and distance he has. It may be possible in some 

 cases, and possibly Dwalaghiri is one. I can only say, having sur- 

 veyed myself among hills, that nothing is more fallacious than 

 names given from a distance, even when an object is conspicuously 

 visible. I myself believe that there is an identity between the 

 mountains to which Capt. Webb and the Gr. T. Surveyors have 

 assigned the name of Dwalaghiri, but far be it from me to assert 

 that that is its veritable name. 



Mr. Hodgson is not probably less fallible than his predecessors, 

 and yet Col. Crawford places Dhayabaug east of the meridian of 

 Katmandu, nearly in the position of our peak XXV., whereas an- 

 other authority (Kirkpatrick) places it far west of that meridian ; 

 and here, it is quite evident, that the same name would not be 

 assigned to the same peak. That Mr. Hodgson can get a name 

 to any peak, I believe, but that it will be the true name, I do 

 not believe as a general rule. 



2nd. Mr. Hodgson gives a memo, on the seven Kosis with a 

 sketch. 



The sketch has no scale, and is confessedly a roughly drawn 

 document, not founded on Survey. It can therefore hardly be ad- 

 mitted as evidence of any thing, but I shall show reason to doubt 

 its being in Mr. Hodgson's favor. 



Mr. Hodgson in the paper asserts. 1st. — That there is a mountain 

 called Bhairava Langur or Deodangha. 



2nd. — That that mountain is the source of the Bhootia Kosi. 



3rd. — That it is the same as Mount Everest of Col. Waugh. 



4th. — That Mount Everest is in the place of the source of the 

 Bhootia Kosi. 



I have said there is presumptive evidence of the first assertion. 



The second assertion rests solely on information which is not 

 very reliable (as far as the experience of accurate Surveyors goes) 

 at the best, and is peculiarly liable to error in this case, as the 

 Bhootia Kosi is only one of several coniluent streams, and has 



