HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS; fc 266 



temperature, the thermometer being near the zero of the icale.* The 

 elevation thus found, corrected however f for expanfion of mercury 

 and variation of the denflty of the air, as indicated by the thermome- 

 ter, is 5818 Englijh feet or 969! fathoms for Chifdpdm', and 4784 feet or 

 797^ fathoms for Cat* 'hmdndd ,J above the plains of Bengal. Hence 

 may be inferred the following approximated meafures of other Rations 

 where barometrical obfervations were alio made, unaccompanied how- 

 ever by obfervations of the thermometer. 



Feet. 



Chandragiri, - - » * lvt (22.5* ) 7989+ 



Tambekhdn, -;. - - - M (23. 75 J) 6488 



Chifipdm, - - - - M (23.8H ) 6453 



Cumhara, - - - M (24.22*) 5943f 



Bhirbandi, - - * M (24 2S§ ) 5875 



* Zero of De Luc's fcale, 16.75 of Reaumur's, anfwering on Fahrenheit's fcale, to .... 69,35 



Genital Roy's (Philos. Tranf. vol. 67, page 740.) adapted to French toifes 6 r.4 



Thermometer at Chifapdnl, 6 <f°, that .it Calcutta being 75 ; the mean is, ......... 70 



Thrrmometer at Cat'hmandu,,, ....52 



At Calcutta, 68 



Mean of both 60 



T According to the mean of the rules prop jfed by General Ror and Sir Grouch Shuckburgh; and 

 nearly in conformity to De Luc's, excepting the rcdu&ion of 8° in his fcale : the numbers bang 0.454 for 

 the multiplication of thtf difference of thermometers, and 0.00244 for that of the mean of both thermomc- 

 tcis above 32 Fahrenheit. 



J Ey another baiometer which ftoid a quarter of an inch higher, the elevation of Cat'hmtindu above 

 Calcutta is 4510 feet; or 4600 nearly, above the fca. 



* KOimatcd. KiRKr ATRiCK, Nepal} p. 331 and 332, 

 t Doubtful. 



J KlRKPATRICK, N/pdl, p. 70. 



B Ibid. p. 57. 



^ Much beneath the fummitof the mountain: ibid, p, 139 and 333, 



