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Trigonometrical Survey of India under Colonel Waugh, Surveyor 

 General of India, assigned it a place above that of any previously 

 ascertained height in this range, already supposed to boast of 

 the highest known mountain in the world. 



It would be remembered that for many years the famous moun- 

 tain of Dewalagiri in Nepal, in Latitude 28° 41' 48'', and Longitude 

 83° 32' 8" originally measured by the late Captain W. S. Webb, 

 and described in the Asiatic Kesearches, Vol. XII., was considered 

 to be the highest mountain in the world. This was found by the 

 operations of the Great Trigonl. Survey to be 26,826 feet above the 

 sea level, but the further discoveries of Colonel Waugh, in 1847, 

 proved Kanchinjinga in Sikkim, in Latitude 27° 42'-8'' and Longi- 

 tude 88° 11' 26" to be much higher, viz. 28,156 feet, or 1,330 ft. 

 above Dewalagiri. 



Since that period the computations of the positions and elevations 

 of all the principal peaks of the stupendous Himalayas from Assam 

 to the Sufed Kho, comprising 18f degrees of Longitude, have been 

 provisionally completed, and Colonel Waugh purposes to make the 

 subject one of special report for publication, as soon as all the 

 computations have been scrupulously revised and every refinement 

 of correction introduced. This revision which cannot materially 

 modify the results, has proceeded to some extent, sufficient to 

 assign the final values for the peak designated XV. of the Trigl. 

 Survey, and which place it in N. Latitude 27° 59' l6"-7 and 86° 

 58' 5"-9 Longitude E. of Greenwich, with an elevation of 29,002 

 feet above the sea level, or 846 feet above Kanchinjinga, and 2,176 in 

 excess of the far famed Dewalagiri. 



This position is almost due North East of Katmandoo, distant 

 about 100 miles, and almost midway between Kanchinjinga and that 

 place, i. e. Katmandoo, and within a few minutes of the same parallel 

 as the former, and according to the latest and best map very nearly 

 on the meridian of the town of Bhaugulpoor. 



Colonel Waugh mentioned in his letter, that it was his rule and 

 practice to assign to every Geographical object its true local or 

 native appellation, but here was a mountain most probably the 

 highest in the world without any local name, that he could disco- 

 ver ; whose native appellation, if it has any, would not very likely be 



