152 THE PEAKS IN THE HIMALAYA BY R. DE SC'HLAGINTWEIT. 



these data have been obtained is duly acknowledged in Vol. 

 II of the de Schlagintweit's " India and High Asia," to be the 

 G. T. Survey. 



Third. That the height of 26,522 which is assigned to 

 peak XXXIX in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, is a 

 mis-print /or 2,05 2. On referring to the original records, I find 

 that there has not been any mis -print. The height of this 

 peak has been determined with as great accuracy as any 

 other peak fixed by the G. T. Survey ; it has been observed 

 from no less than eight independent stations, and the indi- 

 vidual results are singularly accordant, falling within an 

 extreme range of 38 feet. 



Fourth. Thai the valuable memoir in the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society ivas written by myself It was written by 

 my able Assistant Mr. Hennessy, and was merely communicat- 

 ed by myself to the Society. 



I may add that recent operations of the G. T. Survey, in 

 Assam confirm the accuracy of the latitudes and longitudes 

 assigned by Herr Schlagintweit to his three first peaks in 

 Bhutan, but they increase the heights as follows. Dal- La 

 East by 987 feet, Dal-La West by 571 feet, and Theme- 

 Ri by 798 feet. 



Believe me, dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 

 J. T. Walker, Lt Col. R K, 



Supt. G. T. Survey of India. 

 On the question of the propriety of the name " Deo Danga" 

 for Mount Everest, I am informed by Colonel Ramsay, the 

 Resident in Nepaul, that "Danga, or as the word is usually 

 pronounced, Danra, is the usual Nepal ese term for a mountain 

 ridge, in contradistinction to the word " Lek" (pronounced 

 Lake) which is used to designate a mountain top or peak." 



J. T. W. 



