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Captain Lloyd on the Height of the 
nor any traces of fire or charring could be found in the course 
of the electrical fluid. The upper and lower winds, after con- 
tinuing a little while from SSW. and NNE., have since blown 
uniformly from the E.NE., and the weather is now quite settled. 
SCARBOEOUGH, YORKSHIRE, \ 
Art. III . — Observations an the Heights (f the Himalaya 
Mountains^ with the Measurements of Lieut A Gerard and 
Mr J. Gerard. By William Lloyd, Captain of the Ben- 
gal Army. 
In the fourteenth volume of the Asiatic Researches, printed 
at Calcutta, there is a memoir of great interest on the heights 
of the principal Snowy Peaks of the Himalaya Mountains, by 
Captain J. A. Hodgson and Lieutenant J. D. Herbert ; and it 
is really lamentable to observe in a work of such deserved re- 
putation, and which is so widely circulated, the numerous errors 
of the press that in a particular manner mark that paper. A 
brief extract of that memoir has just been published in the 
Eighteenth Number of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 
with a table of the general results of those valuable, extensive, 
and laborious operations ; which, although correctly copied from 
the Calcutta edition of the Asiatic Researches, does not exhibit 
the true heights of the Snowy Peaks, and which is calculated to 
confound the stations of the Great Triangulation with the Peaks 
themselves. At page S12 of the Calcutta edition of the Re- 
searches (14}th volume), there is a table designated Snowy 
Peaks, with data.” It is from this table that the heights of 
a number of the Snowy Peaks above the level of the sea have 
beeji extracted. The table commences ‘‘ Uchalaru, E.” which 
signifies that the Snowy Peak marked F. in the Plan of the 
Triangulation, is seen from the station of Uchalaru under an 
angle of 5® 40' 25", is distant from it 76,673 feet, is 7,742 feet 
higher than Uchalaru, and, finally, 21,884 feet above the level 
of the sea. Again, great E.,” which is one of the peaks of 
Jumnooturu, is seen from Uchalaru under an angle of 9° 34' 
55", is distant from it 39,037 feet, is elevated 6,623 feet above 
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