Jan. 11, 1858.] WAUGli ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. 105 
or native appellation, and I have always scrupulously adhered to 
this rule, as I have in fact to all other principles laid down by that 
eminent geodist. 
“ But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, 
without any local name that we can discover, whose native appella- 
tion, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained until we are 
allowed to penetrate into Nepal.” 
In conclusion, as the Asiatic Society has inserted in its Journal 
papers tending to mislead in regard to the identity of Deodanga 
and Mount Everest, I trust that they will give prominence to this 
discussion, which proves that the fact is not only doubtful, hut far 
from probable, if the particulars supplied by Mr. Hodgson are 
correct so far as they go. Considering it a matter of importance 
that geographers should be enabled to form their own opinion on the 
subject, I request you will communicate this correspondence with 
its annexures to the Asiatic Society, retaining a copy for record. 
I remain, my dear Thuillier, 
Your affectionate friend, 
(Signed) A. S. Waugh. 
P.S. You will perceive the gist of the question is not whether the 
mountain should be called Mount Everest or by its true native name 
(which is a principle not disputed by any one), but whether it can 
be called Deodanga without risk of error, in the absence of satis- 
factory proof that this is really its native name. 
No. 10,267. — Department Orders. 
Surveyor-General’s Field Office, Dhera Dhun, 
22nd April, 1857. 
The attention of the Surveyor-General of India having been drawn 
to the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society (as marginally cited),* it 
appears to him desirable that the question which has been raised as 
* From Mr. B. H. Hodgson, submitting for the information of the Society and the 
public in general the following extract of a letter from the Secretary to the Royal 
Asiatic Society, in reference to the mountain “ Deodanga ” (‘ { Mount Everest ”) of 
Colonel Waugh : — 
“ Your letter of the 27th October, together with your observation on the incon- 
gruity of assigning a European name to Indian localities already provided with 
native appellations, was received and read at our last meeting of the 17th inst. ; 
and I have the pleasure to inform you that the members present unanimously ex- 
pressed their concurrence with your view of the case. 
“ A notice of the paper was communicated to the Athenaeum and Literary 
Gazette, and has appeared already in full in the latter journal. I have, &c., 
(Signed) “ Edward Norris, Sec. Royal A.S. 
“ To B. H. Hodgson , Esq.' 
