HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS. 261 



On thefe confederations, and after carefully infpe&ing Mr. Webb's 

 journal, in which I find observations of unnamed fnowy peaks feen from 

 the flations olRH'hal* and Bahmenc6€hi\ under angles of nine and ten 

 degrees ; with others, from more diftant flations, of mountains fuppofed 

 to be known, as the peak near Gangavatdri feen from Ndgun-ghati and 

 Chandra~badani,X and Ceddr-ndt'h from the laft mentioned ftation ;§ I do 

 not deem any of thefe points to be fo verified as to be made the certain 

 grounds of a correct meafurement of altitude. The horizontal diftance 

 of the near giacieres appeared to the travellers, in more thanone inftance, 

 to'be only ten miles ; (| but this, being a mere guefs, cannot ferve for 

 the bafis of correcl calculation. Employed as a conjectural meafure, it 

 gives 9000 feet for the height of the objects above the lofty fpot whence 

 they were viewed. 



The pofition of Ceddr-ndt 'A is not confidently ftated,^ the materials 

 for determining it being infufficient. Suppofing however that of 

 Gangavatdri to be more nearly correcl;, the pyramidical peak in the 

 vicinity of that celebrated place, if indeed the fame which was feen 

 and meafured from Ndgun-ghdti, is 1 7784 feet above the fummit of that 

 pafs efteemed to be 5000 feet high. 



But leaving thefe conjectures and doubts, let us pafs to more cer- 

 tain obfervations and more exacl; meafurements. To Colonel Craw- 

 ford I am indebted for the communication of obfervations made bv 



* to° 18'. 9 $$'. 9 42. 9 19'. 8° 19 bearing refprfli.»rly N. 6z° 49' ■" E. N. 59° 04' E. 

 N. 54 56'E. N. 49 42'. N. 45 28' E. and further diminimingai the bearijigs grew more Northerly. 

 + 9 55/. 9 14'. 8° 17' bearing N. 43 35' E. Ni 39* 12' E. N. z8° 17' E, refpetfively. 

 + 3° \ and z° 50'. 



§ *° 34. 



g Afiatick Refearchcs, 11; p, e; 1 c; and 5 e 2, 



f Ibid. p. 442. 



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