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THE PEAKS IN THE HIMALAYA 



Enumeration of the snowy peaks hitherto measured in the 

 Himalaya. By Robert cle Schlagintweit, Professor at the 

 University of Giessen. 



The valuable memoir " The Trigonometrical Survey of 

 India/' by Major J. T. Walker, contained in the Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1862, No. I., pp. 32-48, en- 

 ables me, in connexion with the data published by me in 

 the second volume of our " Results of a scientific mission to 

 India and High Asia," to give here an enumeration of those 

 snowy peaks, which have hitherto been measured in the 

 lofty mountain-chain of the Himalaya. 



In order to render this enumeration useful in a scientific 

 point of view, as well as for practical purposes, I have add- 

 ed to each peak, besides its latitude, longitude, and 

 height, also a name. The necessity of finding proper names 

 for the peaks is not only of importance for trigonometical 

 operations in general, but also for every geographical detail. 

 Many of the difficulties, alluded to by Major Walker in 

 para. 58 of his memoir, " which the compiler meets with in 

 the identification of peaks, whose positions have been de- 

 termined hy different persons, after long intervals, or from 

 different points of view under the disadvantages of altered 

 aspects," would greatly be diminished — though they will 

 never entirely disappear, — if every peak should have its de- 

 finite name. 



Although many a peak of striking aspect is distinguished 

 by a name given to it by the natives, which repeated in* 

 quiries prove to be no arbitrary one, yet such a designa- 

 tion is wanting for a considerable number of peaks, especi- 

 ally when they are situated in the higher, uninhabited 

 regions. As it may not be generally known, I may mention 

 here, that also in the Alps many peaks had not been desig- 

 nated by names before the time when a livelier sense of the 



