A- SURVEY OF K-EMAON, um 



JEJitiMe of snowy p«»aks XIJ! 

 Biffeicnces oi lujUwJ.® ^ . , , 



SS 30 15' 35,1 XiX 

 1 S6 19,8 



i» 



30 12 15.1 2X¥ 

 J 32 58,2 



^ 29 6^ 46,f 

 1 13 28,2 



Moiqixe south oo^a 



?3 39 16,3. 

 51,4 



28 39 16 9 

 U 51.4 



93 39 17,5 

 31,4 



LaiUude cf CDOsqjus ' eoao 



2>i 3Ji ?6.5- 



Sa S3 28.1 



Ths. ^(Jtttde of iije mi'S^HTO, % Mira 



2S» 33*= 20" Ma 





Te3s very ejrjf^^ refjiU may be admitted, as a proof of the coTreanefg 

 of the bafe, the fmalleil error io which would hav^e been feniiblf feltg 

 when its operation v/as extended to tiiftariCes appFoacblng tonen times 

 its Own length, ornearly one hundred.. thoofand Finhoms. 



I NEXT computed the differences of longitude of all.the ftations from 

 P/lilfkit,- ufing, what is generally termed, a table of meridional parts 

 for that purpofe, k was not till a moiith-.ago, that I v/as much gratilied 

 by finding, that M. Humboldt had adopted the fame method in his 

 furvey of Mexico, and that he had even ufed the fams table, that givf- 

 cB-by Mendoza db iUos. ■ 



^EiNG now affured, that the difrances given hf tny furvey were truPi-'-^' 

 i»orthy, it became neceifiry to determine the heighth of the feveral 

 ftations above Rohilkhand, and approximately above the fea ; but the 

 weather became hazy at PilibhUy and it was not till my arrival at 

 Cdsipur^ that a favorable opportLnnity for this ptirpofe prefented itfelf. ■ 



The fnowy peaks, Nos. Xi; XiT, XIH, ^ XIV; are didinaly yifible 

 from CdUpur ; and their refpeclivc heighths above fhat place, andjilf) . 

 a!:ove Cd/i Mai'k, a high mountain near Alniora, were calculated from 

 their obferved angles of elevation at each. The re frad ion being ii^. 

 l->"'ed at-,Vof the intercepted arch, though it is not probable, that ex- 

 acijy ihvT fame degree [prevailed at the mouritain Ilation, and th^t on the 

 pbjDj gave rcfults as unJer: 



