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Citation Information
MONTGOMERIE AND PETERMANN.
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time he was south of the Kara-korum and far to the west of the Biafo and Chogo Ganse glaciers.'
The map illustrating Hayward's letters has the title: Sketch Map of the Trans-Indus Countries including Gilgit, Dilail, Yassin cl c. by Geo. 7. W. Hayward, and is reproduced here as Pl. LVII. The Kara-korum is running W. N. W.—E. S. E. and is, in the west, in connection with the Hindu -kush. A series of passes well-known in our days, are entered. To the north of the range is Sarikol with Tash Kurgan and its river, the feeders of which cross the district of Gundrab, 1. e. Khunserab. Later exploration would prove that the orography was more complicated in this region.
In his Report of The li7irza's Exploration from Caubul to Kashgar2 Major MONTGOMERIE has given a very able résumé of what was known of these regions, although we do not need enter upon it here.3 He chiefly touches districts situated »beyond the Hindoo Koosh, Mustagh, and Karakoram ranges, which may be considered as a continuation of the great Himalayan system». The Mirza's route gives Montgomerie a determination of the great watershed which separates Eastern Turkestan from the basins of the Indus and the Oxus. He says: »This new determination confirms the opinion that I have held for many years, that the said watershed continues to run northwest from the Mustagh. — A conclusion which I came to from the positions of many gigantic peaks fixed by the survey to the north-west of the Mustagh, which peaks, though probably not on the watershed, doubtless indicate its general direction.» On the map illustrating his paper, Montgomerie has the Kara-korum Range as a very sharp ridge between the Mustag Pass and the Kara-koram Pass.4 From the Mustagh Pass the Mustagh Range runs to the N. W. as an immediate continuation of, and just as sharply demarcated as, the Kara-korum. On this map also some of the ranges belonging to Eastern Pamir begin to make their appearance, and the days of the Bolor or Belur-tagh are gone.
In 1871 Dr. PETERMANN brought together all that was known of these regions and published an article: Ost-Turkestan and seine Grenzgebirge, nach Hayward, Shaw, Forsyth and anderen neueren Reisenden.5 Of special interest is the map of what he calls the grandest mountainknot in the world.6 It is a hypsometrical map in different colours for different heights. In the west he has the Kisil Yart Kette
I Journal Royal Geographical Society. Vol. XLI. 1871, p. I et seq.
2 Journal Royal Geographical Society. Vol. XLI. 1871, p. 132 et seq.
3 Cp. Vol. VIII.
4 Map of the route from Badakshan across the Pamir Steppe to Kashmir with the Southern branch of the Upper Oxus from the Survey made by the Mirza 1868-69. Vide Vol. VIII.
5 Petermanns Mitteilungen, Band 17. 1871, p. 257 et seq.
6 C. W. Hayward's Reise von Leh nach Kaschgar, 1868-69. Nach der Karte im Journ. R. G. S. Vol. XL. Nebst Ubersicht der Höhenverhältnisse der Central-Asiatischen Gebirgs-Systeme von A. Petermann. I:2,500,000. Vide P1. LVIII.
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