Jan. 11, 1858.] WAUGH ON MOUNTS EVEREST AND DEODANGA. 
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been so defined ; and, even on Mr. Hodgson’s showing, the names 
may he those of passes, or mountain masses, or particular pro- 
minences. 
Mount Everest is the assigned name of a protuberance of no very 
large extent ; and it would be most inadvisable, in my opinion, to 
abandon this definite name, which will soon be familiar to every 
English or European child, for one of the, to Europeans, unpro- 
nounceable names given by Mr. Hodgson, whose application is, to 
say the least, extremely doubtful, and whose misapplication would 
cause endless confusion. 
J. F. Tennant, Lieut. Engineers, 
First Assistant General Trigonometrical Survey. 
(True Copies.) 
A. S. Waugh, Lieut. -Col . , Surveyor- General 
of India , and Superintendent of General 
Trigonometrical Survey. 
The President. — We return thanks to Colonel Waugh and the officers 
under him for this valuable communication. I cannot conceive military en- 
gineers performing any duty more grateful to themselves than that of testifying 
to the merit of their former chief, by attaching the name of Everest to the 
highest mountain in the world. 
Note to Map. — The longitudes are referable to the old value for the Madras 
Observatory, 80° 17' 21", to which a correction of 3' 25" *5 is applicable to 
reduce to the value adopted by the Admiralty, Lt. Raper, and the Royal 
Astronomical Society, or 3' 1" *8 to reduce to the result of Taylor’s obser- 
vations up to 1845. 
Heights brought up from the Sea level at the mouth of the Hoogly by 
trigonometrical levelling, and verified by extension of the operation of the Sea 
at Bombay and Karachi. 
The Peaks marked A, B, C, &c., are identical with Colonel Crawford’s 
Points, and are so characterized by him. 
W. H. Scott, 
Chief Draughtsman Surveyor-General’s Field Office. 
A. S. Waugh, Lieut.-Col., 
Surveyor-General of India. 
