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One gets the impression that the author of this map has not known of nor believed in the maps drawn by order of the great Manchu emperors.
The same view regarding Klaproth 's source of the Tsangpo was communicated already a few years earlierI and then taken from an article in the Magasin Asiatique. It begins: »Le Dzang bou ou Yarou ^Dzangbo Tchou (Tsanpou et Sanpou) prend son origine à l'est de la haute chaîne neigeuse appelée en tubetin Gandis-ri, et Kailasa par les Hindous. Ses sources se trouvent dans le flanc de la montagne Lang tsian kabab (bouche de l'élephant).» Only the latter half of the statement is correct, for Langchen-kabab is situated at the southern side of the valley.
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