1856.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 467 



2. — From Mr. Hodgson the following papers — 



1. — A Note on the native name of the peak of the Himalaya, the 

 height of which has been lately determined by Col. Waugh. 



2d. — Eoute of two Nepalese Embassies to Pekin, with remarks on 

 the water shed and plateau of Tibet. 



3d. — Systematic Summary of the Eoute from Kathmandu to Pekin 

 as traversed by the Nepalese Ambassador to China, Kaji Dalbhanjan 

 Pande, A. D. 1822-3, and set down by his Secretary at the close of 

 each day's journey. 



4th. — Abstracts of diary of Eoute from Kathmandu to Pekin as 

 taken during the Embassy of Chountra Pushkar Sah, showing the 

 number and position of the mountain passes. 



The first paper, which was read to the meeting, is subjoined. 



NATIVE NAME OF MOUNT EVEEEST. 

 To the Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — In the report which has just reached me of the last meeting 

 of the Society, it is announced that a " nameless" peak situated North 

 East of Kathmandu, and in East Longitude 87, had at length been 

 definitely ascertained by our very able Surveyor General, Colonel 

 "Waugh, to be upwards of 29000 feet high, and consequently to be 

 the loftiest yet known peak of the Himalaya. 



The report goes on to say, that " Colonel Waugh mentioned in 

 his letter that it was his rule and practice to assign to every 

 geographic object its true local or native appellation. But here was 

 a mountain, probably the loftiest in the world, without any local or 

 native name that was either now ascertained or likely to become so, 

 till Nepal could be entered and this stupendous mass of snow closely 

 approached." Consequently, Colonel Waugh had been obliged to 

 coin^ name, and had fixed on Mount Everest. 



Agreeing as I do with Colonel Waugh in the propriety of his 

 rule of adopting native names, and cordially sympathising with 

 the sentiment which gave rise to the name Mount Everest, I trust 

 I may be permitted, without offence, to state, in justice to my 

 friends the Nepalese and to myself who have been so long connected 

 with them, that the mountain in question does not lack a native 

 and ascertained name ; that that name is Deva-dhunga, or holy hill, 



