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general subject of Nepalese Geography as my opportunities and 

 training admitted and my duty required, whilst the foregone 

 remarks" must satisfy every one that this special object, supposed to 

 have been heretofore utterly unheeded, was one so situated and 

 circumstanced that no reasonable excuse for ignorance of it on my 

 part could be made, it being clear that personal approximation was 

 no more a necessary condition of ascertaining the name, than it was 

 of determining the height, of Deo-dhunga. 



The only doubt in my mind is the greater or less prevalance in 

 Nepal Proper of the term Deo-dhunga. 



Having possibly obtained it from persons dwelling in the vicinity 

 of Kuti, not at Kathmundu, I have written to Kathmundu to 

 determine that question, and will here only add, that should the 

 name prove to be more familiar to the people of the Cosian basin 

 than to those of the valley and capital, it will not be one whit less a 

 " true native name," just as Col. Waugh's own Powhanri is as true 

 a native name as Dr. Hooker's Donkia, in relation to a Sikim peak 

 and ghat. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



(Sd.) B. H. Hodgson. 



P. S. I subjoin for reference a copy of the sketch map adverted 

 to, taken from one of my extra copies of the memoir on the Seven 

 Cosis. 



The two papers herewith submitted are — 



1. — Eoute of the Embassy of Kaji Dalbhanjan Pande to Pekin. 



2. — Route of the Embassy of Chountra Pushker Sah to Pekin. 

 Both from Kathmundu of course. 



On the proposition of the chairman, the thanks of the meeting 

 were voted to Mr. Hodgson for his valuable papers. 



3. — Prom Mr. Assistant Secretary Oldfield, enclosing copies of 

 Meteorological Eegisters kept at the office of the Secretary to the 

 Government of the N. W. P. Agra, for the months of July and 

 August last. 



4. — Prom Babu Eadha Nath Sikdar, copy of a Meteorological 

 Register kept at the office of the Surveyor General for the month 

 of August last. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report. 



