The map of 1834 stems from the two-volume atlas Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. The SDUK, as the Society was known, produced inexpensive maps to encourage their broad use in education.

The map covers Nepal and parts of today's Indian states Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Though Nepal's shown borders roughly match the modern ones (some territories are assigned to the realm of the "Chinese Tartary"), the title "Nepal" itself is only reserved to the Kathmandu Valley. Patan, also known as Lalitpur, is listed as "Lalita Patun" and Bhaktapur as "Bhalgong" - probably a misinterpretation of its another name Bhadgaon.

Map image © Cartography Associates
The travel to Nepal with a ten-days-long trek in the Mt. Everest region in November 1999 was marked by an odd fallacy and hit annals as The Journey to the Lost Mountain: our small troop has mistaken Lhotse for Everest until very late (THAT was perhaps embarrassing...) The only fortunate coincidence was that both mountains stood pretty near to each other to allow the right Mt. Everest to appear in some pictures which were made with the false one in mind...
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