Jan. 11, 1858.] WAUGH ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. 
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Memorandum by Mr. W. H. Scott, Chief Draughtsman in the 
Field Surveyor-GeneraV s Office. 
With reference to Department Orders No. 10,267, dated 22nd 
April, 1857, in which I am called npon to state my independent 
opinion on the identity of Mount Everest with Deodanga or Bhai- 
ravathan, I beg leave to report, for the information of the Surveyor- 
General of India, as follows : — 
After a very careful examination of the papers specified in the 
margin,* I am humbly of opinion that there is no evidence to 
establish satisfactorily the identity of Mount Everest with Deodanga 
or Bhairavathan. 
The routes of the two Nepalese embassies, from Katmandu to 
Pekin, no doubt contain much interesting detail ; but unfortunately 
they do not assist us in the present investigation, because the 
azimuths or bearings, it will be seen, are not given, and con- 
sequently we can bring them to no account. It is essentially 
necessary that the position of Kutighat, or Bhairava Langur, should 
be known with some degree of certainty ; but this we are unable to 
do by the aid of the papers in question, as will be apparent to all 
familiar with the subject. All the maps I have consulted only tend, 
in my humble opinion, to confuse and mislead : for instance, the 
direct distance of Kuti from Katmandu, according to Kirkpatrick’s 
map, is only 48 miles, 88° N.E. ; Walker’s engraved map gives 
63*6 miles, N. 60° E. ; Parbury and Allen’s, 60 miles, N. 55° E. ; 
according to Crawford, 75 miles, 75° N.E . ; Arrowsmith’s map, 
56*6 miles, N. 78° E. ; according to the preliminary sketch map, 
compiled at the Surveyor-General’s Office, Calcutta, 72*6 miles, 
N. 53° E. ; according to the route of Kaji Dalbanjan Pande the dis- 
tance is 101*5 miles. The Chountra omits Kuti altogether. Amidst 
these conflicting values it is of course impossible to arrive at any 
satisfactory conclusion. The following extract from a letter from 
Major Kamsay, Resident of Nepal, to Major Thuillier, regarding the 
compilation map of that country, dated 11th June, 1855, will serve 
to convey an idea of the conjectural materials and discordant 
elements we have to deal with : — “ You are doubtless aware that no 
European has ever travelled, in the interior of this country, and that 
* Mr. Hodgson's letter on the Native Name of Mount Everest, J. A. S., No. 5, 
1856. The papers referred to in that communication, and published in J. A. S. 
No. 6, 1856, are, — 1st. Route of two Nepalese Embassies to Pekin, with Remarks 
on the W aterparting and Plateau of Thibet. 2nd. Systematic Summary of the Route 
from Katmandu to Pekin, by Kaji Dalbanjan Pande, 1822-23. 3rd. Abstract of 
Diary from Katmandu to Pekin, by Chountra Pushiker Shah, 1817. 4th. Memo- 
randum on the Seven Cosis, with Sketch Map, J. A. S., 1848. 
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