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WAUGH ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. [Jan. 11, 1858. 
respects the identity of “ Mount Everest ” with “ Deodanga ” should 
be examined by a competent Geographical Committee in order to set 
that point at rest. 
The Surveyor-General has carefully examined all that Mr. B. H. 
Hodgson has advanced in support of the identity of Mount Everest 
with Deodanga, and has formed his own opinion on the subject; but 
he thinks it will be desirable that the question should also be 
formally investigated by a committee, and the opinion thereof 
placed on record for general satisfaction. 
The Committee will be composed as follows : — 
Lieut. Tennant, Engineers, 1st Assistant G. T. Survey. In charge Jogi 
Tila Series. 
Lieut. Montgomerie, Engineers, 1 st Assistant G. T. Survey. In charge 
Kashmir Series. 
J. Hennessey, Esq., 2nd Assistant. In charge of Geodetic Computations 
at Trigonometrical Survey, Head Quarters. 
W. Scott, Esq., Chief Draughtsman in the Field Surveyor-General’s 
Office. 
J. W. Armstrong, Esq., Civil Assistant G. T. Survey, &c. 
The papers connected with Mount Everest, and Mr. Hodgson’s 
alleged identification thereof with Deodanga, are at present under 
charge of Mr. W. Scott, who has spent a quarter of a century in 
unravelling more intricate geographical problems than this. 
Mr. Scott will form his own independent opinion and submit the 
same to the Surveyor-General, after which he will forward the 
papers to Mr. Hennessey. 
Mr. Hennessey has been engaged on all the computations for 
determining the positions and heights of the principal peaks of the 
Himalaya range, including Mount Everest, and is well acquainted 
with investigations of this kind. He also saw Mount Everest when 
he was engaged on the north-east longitudinal series. After sub- 
mitting his independent opinion to the Surveyor-General, he will 
forward the papers to Mr. J. W. Armstrong. 
Mr. Armstrong is one of the gentlemen by whom Mount Everest 
was observed. He will forward his opinion to the Surveyor- 
General, and the papers to Lieutenant Tennant, by whom they will 
be independently received, thus giving the investigation the benefit 
of his eminent abilities in matters of difficult research. 
From Lieutenant Tennant the papers will proceed to Lieutenant 
Montgomerie in Kashmir, whose recent experience in details of 
Himalayan geography will enable him to pronounce on this question 
a valuable independent opinion, which he will transmit with all the 
papers to the Surveyor-General. 
(Signed) A. S. Waugh, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Surveyor-General of India. 
