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Mons Sacer in Latin ; and that it is expressly referred to under 

 that name in our Journal. To the paper styled " Route from 

 Kathmandu to Darjeeling" there is appended a " Memorandum 

 relative to the seven Cosis." In the latter occur the following 

 words : " The Bhotia Cosi," has its source at Deo-dhiinga a vast 

 Himalayan peak situated 60 to 70 miles east of Gosainthan, and 

 which Colonel Waugh conjectures may rival Kangchan-jhunga in 

 height. In the rude sketch map which accompanied that paper, 

 Deo-dhiinga was set down, eo nomine, in the position indicated, and 

 that that position tallies with the site of Mount Everest, is clear 

 from the words above quoted, since " 60 to 70 miles east of Go- 

 sainthan," answers precisely to east longitude 87, Gosainthan," 

 being in 86 east longitude. 



Other indications equally correspond, and at the same time show 

 why such an object could uot remain unnamed or unascertained. 



Thus Deodhiinga and Mount Everest are both " about 100 miles 

 N. E. of Kathmandu ;" both are midway between Gosainthan and 

 Kangchan and, lastly, both are by their position and by the absence 

 of any like mass of snow in all the interval between those peaks, 

 identifiable with the so called Kutighat, or the great Gate, which 

 annually for half the year is closed by winter upon the eastern 

 highway of Nepalese commerce and intercourse with Tibet and 

 China. 



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

 matter which chiefly fixed my attention, as a political officer in 

 Nepal, on the site of Mount Everest, and enabled me at once, when 

 I heard in after years 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 Deva-dhiinga vel Bhairavthan (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. Bland- 

 ford. Round the shoulder of Deo-dhiinga runs, as above intimated, 

 the great eastern highway (the western being round the shoulder 

 of Gosainthan) of the merchants and envoys of Nepal proceeding 

 to Lhasa and Pekin ; and this passage along the shoulder of the 

 huge snowy mass Deo-dhiinga vel Bhairavthan is denominated the 

 Kutighat by Hindusthanees and the people of the plains of India, 



