HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS. '25® 



In the fame manner may be calculated the height of the peak, fitu* 

 atcd according to the information of the mountaineers near the fource 

 of the Jamund, and meafured from the fummit of Ndgun-ghati, neat 

 Ldluri, under an angle of 3 17', and from that of Chandra-badani, un» 

 der one of 2 50'. The pOfition of the mountain, deduced from ho- 

 rizontal angles taken at both nations, is fettled by Mr. Webb in lat. 31 

 23, long. 78 5 31'.* The latitude of the Rations, deterrhined by aftro- 

 nomical obfer vations made at the next places of encampment/f is 30 

 32' and 30 20'; and the di dances, taking the longitudes as inferred 

 from furvey, are 54^2 and 63.2 geographic miles refpe&ively. 

 Whence, allowing -rV 11 for refraction, We have 20895 and 21855 feet; 

 or, with an allowance of \, 20503 and 2 1320 feet ; for the elevation of 

 the mountain above thofe itations. Their refpective heights are yet 

 unafcertained : but Chandra-badani was by Mr. Webb thought the 

 highefl, contrary however to what the refult of the preferit calculation 

 indicates. The height of Ndg&n-gbdti was eltimated by him at 5000 

 feet ; and this guefs is corroborated by a trigonometrical meafure- 

 ment of a mountain called the Khanjar hear Bhuwan dkvi,\ feen the 

 preceding day, and found to be 3297 feet above the valley, It is 

 diltantly fupported by barometrical meafures of mountains in a differ 

 rent part of the fame chain, as will be noticed further on. 



The elevation of the yamutidvatdri appears then t6 be not lefs than 

 25000 feet above the valley. It is however right to obferve, that this 

 meafurement of the height of that mountain above the fummit of the 

 paffes from which the angles were obferved, is not entirely to be relied 

 on ; as the di (lances are not determined with fufficient precifion, being 



* Afiaiid Rcfcarches, vol. II, p. 442. 



+ MS. Journal. 



% It is to be regretted that more frequent opportunities did not occur for firaitor mcafurcmcntio 



