540 Notes upon a Tour in the Sikkim Himalayah Mountains. [No. 6. 



and Dictionaries and Tales in Urdu, translations from Sanscrit or 

 Hindi into Persian and Urdu, and Chaghatay and Pushtu books. 



At the end there will be an appendix of corrigenda and addenda. 

 If the whole catalogue is completed, it will be an infinitely fuller 

 and more correct bibliographical work of reference than -Hajy Kha- 

 lyfah's Bibliographical Dictionary. 



Eev. J. Long's Catalogue Raisonne of Bengali works has been 

 already adverted to in this Journal, (ante vol. XXI. p. 632). It 

 includes notices of upwards of thirteen hundred works, and will, 

 we have no doubt, prove a valuable index to the vernacular literature 

 of Bengal. 



Notes upon a Tour in the Sikkim Himalayah Mountains, undertaken 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the Geological Formation of Kun- 

 chinjinga and of the perpetually snow-covered peaks in its vicinity. 

 — By Captain Walter Stanhope Sheewill, Revenue Surveyor. 



An unusually severe earthquake, that occurred at Darjeeling during 

 the month of May, 1852, threw down several thousand square yards 

 of the South Western face of the perpetually snow-covered moun- 

 tain Kunchinjinga,* exposing a dark mass of rock, rendered darker 

 perhaps by the brilliancy of the snow surrounding it. By the aid 

 of a good telescope, the distance being forty-five miles, I could 

 plainly perceive that the geological formation of Kunchinjinga was 

 not of granite, as I had read it was only a few days previous, but of 

 a highly stratified nature, the strata being, by the aid of a telescope, 

 distinctly visible. The statement that the snowy-mountains near 

 Kunchinjinga were of granite was published in a Botanical Maga- 

 zine published in England, Dr. J. D. Hooker being the author of 



* For the derivation and meaning of this word I am indebted to Lieut. G. B. 

 Mainwaring of the 16th Bengal Grenadiers, who, with a praiseworthy industry, has 

 mastered the Lepcha language, and was, in 1852, engaged upon the study of th« 

 Tibeian. The word is Tibetan and means, 



English pronunciation. Tibetan equivalents. English. 



Kon Khng-s Snow 



Chin Chhn full or covered. 



Jong b'jongs Coeval or equal to 



Height above the sea, 28,177 feet (Waugh), the highest measured mountain in 

 the world. 



