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Robert Schlagentweit, two of whom, MM. Herrmann and Robert, 

 returned in June last ; the third, M, Adolphus, is still among the 

 Himalaya mountains, and is expected soon to return, via the Pun- 

 jaub and Bombay. During the winter of 1854-55, these enterpri- 

 sing travellers visited the region lying between Bombay and Ma- 

 dras ; in the following summer M., Herrmann explored the eastern 

 parts of the Himalaya, the Sikkim, Bhootan, and Khasia mountains, 

 where he measured the altitudes of several peaks. The highest of 

 all the summits known throughout the world appears, by his mea- 

 surements, to be the Gahoorishanka, situated in the eastern portion 

 of Nepaul — the same announced as such by Colonel Waugh, but 

 called by him Mount Everest, because he had been unable to ascer- 

 tain its real name in the plains of Hindoostan, where he effected 

 his measurement. This peak is somewhat more than 29,000 feet 

 in height, and bears another name in Thibet, where it is called Chin- 

 gopamari. The other two brothers penetrated by different roads 

 into the central parts of the Himalaya, Kumaon, and Gurwhal; 

 they then visited Thibet in disguise, entered the great commercial 

 station of Gartok, explored the environs of Lake Mansarowr, and 

 that remarkable crest which separates the waters of the Indus from 

 those of the Dihong, often erroneously called the Burrampooter. 

 They ascended the Ibi-Gamine, 22,260 feet in height, that being 

 an altitude never before attained in any part of the world. After 

 having been separated from each other for a space of fourteen 

 months, during which M. Robert ascertained that the table-land 

 of Amarkantak, in Central India, which is generally stated to be 

 8,000 feet above the level of the sea, is not more than 3,300 feet 

 in height, the three brothers again met at Simla, previous to com- 

 mencing the operations intended for the summer of 1856. M. 

 Adolphus, on leaving that place, crossed the Himalaya, went over 

 Thibet, Baltistan, and visited the interesting spot where several 

 mountain crests meet, and the Hindoo Koosh joins the range lying 

 to the north of India. He then returned to the Punjaub through 

 the valley of Cashmere. MM. Herrmann and Robert proceeded 

 to Ladak by different routes. Under good disguises, they were 

 enabled to penetrate into Turkistan, proper by crossing the Karako- 

 ram and the Kuenlun mountains, and descending into the great 



