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him at Cat'hm&ndu Another fet, much more numerous, was taken by 

 him during an extenfive furvey along the frontier, but it is not at pre- 

 fent within his reach. If not actually loft, as was believed when a pre- 

 ceding paragraph of this e flay was written, the journal of his obferva- 

 tions is probably in England, and when there found will confirm what 

 Is here dated upon other grounds. 



At prefent what we poffefs of that laborious furvey, is the protao 

 tion.ofit, fhewing the pofitions of the mountains as they were deter- 

 mined hy crofs bearings taken from a great number of flations between 

 Furnea in Bengal, and Balrdmpur in Ayudh, This .document, however* 

 is invaluable for the purpofe of the prefent inquiry, 



Colonel Crawford, during a long fojourn at Cathmandu in 1802, 

 took the angles of feveral felecled points, of which he determined the 

 diftances by trigonometrical meafurement, having taken the bearings 

 from various flations in the valley of Nepal, the relative fituations 

 of which were ascertained by a tiigonometrical furvey proceeding 

 from a bafe of 852I feet, carefully meafured four times and verified 

 by another bafe of 3582 feet meafured twice. The pofitions of the 

 fame mountains were alfo fettled by obfervations of them made from 

 the plains of Behar in the progrefs of the great furvey which has been 

 mentioned. 



The angles of elevation of the mountains above the Rations of SanibM 

 and the queen's garden near Cat'hmdndu, were taken with an agrono- 

 mical fextant and an artificial horizon. Among the mofl remarkable is 

 an obfervation of a mountain pointed out as mount Rhaibun. It was 

 feen under an angle of 5 4' 21" and afcertained to be difiant 2Sr g> m » 

 The elevation calculated from this meafure is 30140 feet above the fia« 



