Last night the <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Surveyor general</persName> who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />spent last season here sent us the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />results of his measurements as above. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />This mountain, the loftiest on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />globe, except <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgiri</placeName> now being <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />remeasured be higher, is only 42′ off; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is called <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin-jinga</placeName>.