HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS. 263 



tion from which the altitude was taken, and which is itfelf more than 

 4500 feet above the level of the fea, as concluded from barometrical 

 obfervations to be fubfequently mentioned. Another feen under a fi- 

 milar angle, 5 3' 58', but lefs diftant by four miles, exceeds the eleva- 

 tion of the ftation by 17819 feet, Both thefe mountains are but little 

 to the eaftward of north, from Cat'hmdndu, Tre following are as little 

 north of eaft: viz. one nearly in the poiition of the Cdla-bkairava* 

 diitant Qg geo. m, with an altitude of 2 48' 6\ and confequently 

 20025 feet high; another .in its vicinity, with an angle of 3 23' 6' dif- 

 tant 48 g. rn and elevated 18452 feet; and a third, as much more re- 

 mote, being 68 g. m. with an altitude of 2 7' 21", and a confequent 

 elevation of 18662 feet, above Catlimundu. 



All thofe mountains are perceivable from Patna : the firft or the 

 fuppofed Dhaibun, at a diftance of 162 g. m. and Cala-bhairava, or the 

 mountains in its vicinity, at that of 153,150 and 145 g. m. Thefe 

 are the nearefl of the Himalaya which are viflble from that city. The 

 moll remote are feen in the N. E. quarter at the prodigious diftance of 

 1,95 g. m. afcertained by their pofition which is determined by bearings 

 taken by Colonel Crawford from Nations approaching within a hun- 

 dred miles of their fate. 



Mount Dbaibun, or at lead the peak which was indicated to Colonel 

 Crawford under that name, and which is not furpafled by any of the 

 points meafured from Cat'hmdndu, was viewed by General Kirkpa- 

 trick, if indeed it be the fame mountain, from a pofition ten miles 

 nearer to it on mount Bhirbandl :f and his animated defcription of the 



* Genl. KmPAUiCK'a account of Nepal. 



+ Account of Nepal, p- 13?. ItisxigU to o^f rve that die map annexed to that publication places 

 Dhaibu:t and other mountains S3 DMncha and Gbirkhu, much neirer to Cat'hmandu, than they arc by 

 CoIoikI Craw.ord'i furvcj'. The latter is however molt (0 be dej. ended on. 



