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By the PRESIDENT. 



S aSES 9BS3SE3' 



'KEN I prefented to the Society the narrative of a journey per- 

 formed -;by -Lieutenant Webb, and Captain ■ Rape,*, to explore 

 the fources of the Gangs, I had occafion to. n.rtice. the .observations- 

 mentioned to have been made for determining, geometrically the altitude 

 of remarkable peaks of the fnowy mountains,' and the inference which 

 appeared to be fun ly deducible, that this chain of mountains is among 

 the mod elevated in the known world, neither furpaffed nor rivalled hy 

 any other but tht Cordillera of the -Andes.* I ihoji'd have been justifi- 

 ed, by the premifes in. faying mor; : but \ thought it right to fpeak thus 

 guardedly ; rot haying been then enabled to examine the particulars 

 of the altitudes taken, the di fiances meafured, and the calculations 



* hi. Rt». j i j. 445. 



