Jan. 11, 1858.] WAUGH ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. 
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and Messrs. Lane and Nicolson from different stations of the north- 
east longitudinal series, and characterised by each according to the 
nomenclature which each had adopted. When the observations 
were all collected, and the snow points discussed and arranged in 
order from east to west, this lofty peak was characterised by the 
numeral XY. There were no means of ascertaining either the name 
of this mountain or the names of the others which were observed ; 
and when its stupendous height was finally determined, a name was 
sought for to stamp its greatness, and none presented itself in the 
absence of its own local appellation more fitting than that of our 
renowned ex-Surveyor-General. 
This nomination has been impugned by Mr. Hodgson on the 
strength of certain data advanced by him in the Journals of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal — data which cannot be received as con- 
clusive because they are purely conjectural. 
The first datum is a conjectural bearing and distance from positions never 
visited. 
The other data are the itineraries of two Nepalese embassies to 
Pekin, the distances of whose routes are equally conjectural. 
Mountainous as these routes must have been, and tortuous from 
the nature of the country, the distances noted as traversed must 
have been calculated, not so much by linear measure as by the 
difficulties encountered and the delays entailed. 
Independent of these objections, this lofty snow peak is neither 
visible from the valley of Nepal, on account of an intervening 
though lower snow mount, nor even from the confines of Sikkim, 
for a similar reason ; and, great as Mr. Hodgson’s knowledge of the 
mountainous region of Nepal may be, his authority on the question 
at issue can be received only with diffidence, because it is enun- 
ciated without personal observation, and based upon the vague 
information of untrained travellers. 
J. W. Armstrong, 
Civil Assistant General Trigonometrical Survey. 
Memorandum by Lieut. J. F. Tennant, Engineers , First Assistant 
General Trigonometrical Survey , in charge Jogi Tila Series. 
During the identification of Colonel Crawford’s peaks, and the 
discussion of the identity of Mount Everest with Deodanga, I have 
paid a good deal of attention to the question. 
There are no means of knowing the position of Deodanga beyond 
what are given by Mr. Hodgson. These consist, — 1st, of an Itine- 
