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never been seen, as far as I learn, in its separate form by any Euro- 

 pean. Consequently its course must be liable to great error. 



Mount Everest is stated to be identical with the source of the 

 River as the occupant of the same position; but if this position be 

 untrustworthy, there is an end of this, and consequently the pro- 

 position, that both being sources of the same river are the same, 

 falls to the ground. 



The real result from this paper is that, 



1st. — There is a mountain called Deodangha, the source of a river 



2nd. — That a stream called the Bhootia Kosi comes from a snowy 

 mountain. 



3rd. — That the coincidence of these two mountains is to say the 

 best, subject to doubt, and 



4th. — That there is no evidence to show the Latitude, Longitude 

 and height of Deodangha and Mount Everest to be identical at all. 



If the sketch map be a true representation of the course of the 

 streams given, I believe Mr. Hodgson will be puzzled to find room for 

 his other Kosis, giving each the feeding area necessary for its size. 



If the mountain Deodangha be a little north and east of the 

 Kuti pass, unless that has been grossly misplaced by all the Geo- 

 graphers who have exercised their talents on it, Deodangha is not 

 Mount Everest. 



I am aware that Mr. Hodgson says, he has explained the identity 

 to the Society ; but I see no evidence to satisfy a Geographer, and 

 were any evidence wanting to show a pre-judgment of the case, we 

 have his own letter, from which I quote as follows : — 



" A few words more may be given to the last point, as being the 

 matter which chiefly forced my attention as a Political Officer in 

 Nepal, on the site of Mount Everest, and enabled me in after 

 years, when I heard surmises (from, I think, Col. Waugh himself, 

 or from some of his subordinates) of the great height of a peak in 

 that direction to fix on Deodangha vel Bhairavathau (both names 

 are used) as being the enormous snow mass in question, and I have 

 often of late repeated this here very recently to Mr. Blanford." 

 All which demonstrates that before Mount Everest was named, or 

 its definite position fixed, Mr. Hodgson had committed himself by 

 repeated assertions of the identity of the forthcoming highest peak 

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