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Show A 'NOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 91 and of the Dhawalagiri (lat. 28° 40', long. 83° 21', altitude 4390? toises, 2 ,072 English feet), were made known in Europe, the Chimborazo (3350 toises, or 21,421 English feet), according to my trigonometric measurement, (Recueil d'Observations astronomiques, t. i. p. 73,) was still everywhere regarded as the highest summit on the surface of the earth. The Himalaya now appeared, according as the comparison was made with the Djawahir or the Dhawalagiri, 676 toises (±323 English feet), or 1040 toises (6650 English feet) higher than the Chimborazo. Pentland's South American travels, in the years 1827 and 1838, fixed attention (Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, 1830, pp. 320 and 323) on two snowy summits of Upper Peru, east of the Lake of Titicaca, which were supposed to surpass the height of the Chimborazo respectively by 598 and 403 toises (3824 and 2577 English feet). I have remarked above, p. 64, that the latest calculation of the measurements of the Sorata and Dlimani shows this >iew to be incorrect. The Dhawalagiri (on the declivity of which, in the valley of the Ghandaki, the Salagrana Ammonites, so celebrated among the Brahmins as symbols of one of the incarnations of Vishnu, arc collected) therefore still shows a difference between the culminating points of the Old and the New Continents of more than 6200 Parisian, or 6608 English feet. The question bas been raised, whether there may not exist behind the southernmost more or less perfectly measured chain, other still greater elevations. Colonel George Lloyd, who in 1840 edited the important observations of Captain Alexander Gerard and his brother, entertains an opinion that, in the part of the Himalaya which he calls somewhat vaguely "the Tartaric chain'' (meaning therefore in north Thibet towards the Kuen-liin, and perhaps in Kailasa of the sacred lakes, or beyond Leh), there are summits of from 29,000 to 30,000 English feet-one or two thousand feet higher therefore than the Dhawalagiri. (Lloyd and Gerard, Tour in the Himalaya, 1840, vol. i. pp. 143 and 312; Asie Centrale, t. iii. p. 324.) So long as actual measurements are wanting, one cannot decide respecting such possibilities; as the indication, from which the natives of Quito, long before the arrival of Bouguer and La Condamine, recognized the superior altitude of the Chimborazo (namely, from the portion of its height above the region of perpetual snow being greater |