SI 4 On the Heights of the principal Snowy Peaks 
66 In settling, finally, which it is hoped the present operations 
(combined with Captain Webb’s) will do, the heights of some of 
.the principal Himalaya peaks, a point on which even so great 
an authority as He Humboldt has fallen into error, we have 
imagined that we could not be too explicit in describing the in- 
struments, and in detailing, not only our original observations, 
and the methods of calculation, but even the several steps of the 
process itself, from which the results are deduced. We have 
been aware, that it is only this full and candid disclosure, in 
which many things are met with that might have been glossed 
over, that can give a conclusion of so much interest any weight ; 
and while we deprecate the theorist’s pronouncing too decidedly 
on the value of results, which may appear to him much too dis- 
cordant, we feel confident, that, in the eyes of the practised ob- 
server, who will consider the nature of our instruments, and 
the difficulties with which we had to contend, these very discre- 
pancies will prove our strongest claim to his confidence.” 
Lieutenant Herbert next gives a minute account of his me- 
thod of measuring a base line of 21,754.8 feet, and then a de- 
tail of all the angles of the triangulation, founded on the mea- 
sured base. 
The following are the general results of the operations, in so 
far as concerns the Snowy Peaks. We have retained the letters 
and references in Captain Hodgson’s Tables, as there is no other 
way of identifying the peaks. 
TABLE of the Heights of the Snowy Peaks of the Himalaya 
Mountains. 
Height above the Sea, 
in English Feet. 
Uchalaru, F. - - 21,884 
Ditto, - - - 20,129 
Ditto, C. - - 21,773 
Ditto, Q. 19,732 
Ditto, J. - - 16,857 
Ditto, great E. - - 20,765 
Kedar Kanta, L. - - 19,352 
Ditto, No. 39. - - 19,321 
Ditto, great F,. - - 20,747 
