HIMALAYA Hien1011. declaration of the opinion, that the Himalaya is the loftiest range of Alpine mountains which has yet been noticed, its most elevated peaks greatly ex ceeding the highest of the Andes." On this point, a writer in the Quarterly Review joins issue, and con tends that, from the unrneasured and unknown dis tance at which the very small angles were taken, and the uncertainty of the quantity of terrestrial refrac tion to be allowed in the calculation, no certain con elusion could be arrived at, and that the results must necessarily be inaccurate, and may be erroneous to the extent of several thousand feet.
Reaulu of The highest part of the Himalaya is about the various °I). centre of the chain, or between the source of the Bhagarattee to the valley of Nepal. From an obser the Height vatian taken by Colonel Crawford (when at Cath of Peaks. mandu, in Nepal, in 1802) of very small angles at the extremities of a short measured base, it is con cluded that one peak, called Dhaibun, rose to an elevation of 20,140 feet above the spot where the observation was made ; which being itself 4500 feet above the level of the sea, would make the height of this peak 24,640 feet. By similar observations, the height of another peak was proved to be 22,319 feet; of another, 24,525 ; another, 22,952 feet ; and of a fifth, 23,162 feet above the level of the sea.
But the peak which was found to possess the most extraordinary elevation was that called Dhaivala-giri, the White Mountain. By a mean of three observa tions, taken from the following computed distances, and seen under their respective angles, namely, At station A, distance miles. Ang. 2° 48' B, - 2° 19' C, 136M 1°22' and, by allowing for refraction, the height of this mountain is calculated at 27,677 feet above the plains of Gorakbpur ; which plains being 400 feet above the mouth of the Ganges, it follows, that the whole height of Dhawala-giri must be taken at more than 28,000 feet above the level of the sea. By a subse quent calculation, however, the height of this peak was reduced to 26,862 feet. Of this and six other peaks, the following are the results of Mr Cole brook's calculations, made from the observations of Lieutenant Webb : These heights are probably exaggerated ; it ap pears, indeed, that subsequent observations, made by Lieutenant Webb, with an excellent instrument, from the extremities of a well determined and suffi cient base, have decided them to be so. They make, for instance, the height of the first " nameless moun tain," in the above table, only 21,000 feet above the plains of Rohilkhund, or 21,500 above the level of