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Himalaya Mountams. 
it, and rises 00,765 feet above the ocean. Kedar Kanta is an- 
other lofty station of the great triangulation, and the table shews 
the difference of level between it and the Snowy Peaks marked 
L. No. 39, great E. (one of the Jumnooturu Peaks), the mid- 
dle and left peaks of the group H., the peak C., and the cone; 
their distances from it, and likewise their respective heights 
above the level of the sea. The Chur station is upon a stupen- 
dous mountain, from whence the Peak of Raiding, 363,580 
feet distant, is seen under an angle of V 5' 44" : this mighty 
peak, 21,251 feet above the level of the sea, stands on the left 
bank of the Settle) river, and beyond the hither Himalah, or 
that portion of the Snowy Chain that looks down upon the 
plains of India. This being a correct elucidation of Captain 
Hodgson’s table, the impropriety of connecting the stations of 
the triangulation with the peaks in a ‘‘ table of the lieights of 
the Snowy peaks of the Himalaya Mountains” is evident, since 
it impresses the reader with the idea, that the station and peak 
together signify one and the same mountain, as in the instance 
Chur Raiding, Whartu pyramidal Peak, &c. &c. The heights 
of the Snowy Peaks above tiie level of the sea, given in the 
table of the Snowy Peaks, with data,” at page 312 of the four- 
teenth volume of the Asiatic Researches, and published in the 
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, are erroneous, as appears 
from the note at the foot of page 316 of tlie Asiatic Researches, 
which cancels the list of results given in that table, and substi- 
tutes a new one at page 324, headed Peaks of the tiimalaya, 
or Snowy Range,” to which a number of additional observa- 
tions have been added. The reason stated in the note for can- 
celling the first table is, that the first calculations gave but 853 
feet for the height of the station of Relville on the plains, above 
the sea, instead of 1013 feet, which it was found to be by sub- 
sequent and more complete barometrical observations, as de- 
tailed in page 320. The difference of 160 feet has been added 
to the mean heights given in the table of Sno\vy Peaks with 
data in the new table at page 324, which consequently exhibits 
the true heights of the principal Snowy Peaks above the level 
of the sea, and defines them past the possibility of mistake, by 
giving their latitudes and longitudes. 
I have been induced to take the liberty of troubling you witli 
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