so Captain Lloyd on the Himalaya Mountains. 
these remarks, from a conviction that you will, in the next num- 
ber of your valuable Journal, insert Captain Hodgson’s correct- 
ed table of the heights of the Snowy Peaks of the Himalah 
Mountains: and should the following results of observations, 
made in the same tract of country, by Lieutenant Alexander 
Gerard and Mr J. Gerard, be thought of sufficient interest, you 
are welcome to publish them also. These last observations have 
already appeared in the Calcutta Journal. 
Heights hy Barometer. 
Feet above the Sea. 
Shatool Pass, - - 15,554 
Boorendo Pass, - - 15,095 
Keoobrung Pass, - - 18,448 
Pass between Soongnum and Manes, 18,743 
Bed of the Sutlej.under Bekhur, 10,79^ 
Highest birch-forest near Soongnum, 14,000 
Highest cultivation at Bekhur, 13,000 
Top of Choor Mountain, - 12,143 
Station on Purgeool Mountain, 1 9,41 1 
Highest night-camp, - 18,129 
Bekhur Village, - - 12,676 
Nako, - - . 12,005 
Shipki, - - - 10,597 
Shealkur Fort, - - 10,403 
Huttoo, or Whartoo, - 10,656 
Ammonites found at - 16,000 
Highest sandstone, - 16,700 
Rampoor, . - - 3,398 
Soobathoo, - » 4,205 
Dehra, - - - 2,349 
Suharunpoor, - - 1,093 
Buranda Pass of Captain Hodgson. 
Limestone. 
Tully. 
Chur of Captain Hodgson, 
Purkgul of Captain Hodgson. 
Shipki of Captain Hodgson. 
Shalkar of Captain Hodgson. 
Whartu of Captain Hodgson. 
Sabhatu Math of Captain Hodgson. 
Near Belville, Captain Hodgson. 
Heights hy Trigonometry. 
Purgeool, or Tuzheegung Mountain, 22,488 
Purkgul of Captain 
Ruldung Mountain, 
21,103 
Raiding of ditto. 
Budraj Mountain, 
7,502 
Bhadraj of ditto. 
Bhyrat Fort, 
7,592 
Bairat of ditto. 
Limestone at least 
20,000 
Hodgson. 
London, ) 
October 1823. j 
In compliance with Captain Lloyd’s request, we have insert- 
ed the following larger and more correct Table of the Heights 
