| | | | | Both RAVERTY and MONTGOMERIE speak of the Mus-tagh and the Karakorum as two different ranges. The latter, one of the most perspicacious and enterprising specialists of these inaccessible tracts, regards the Kara-korum as a well developed mountain system of very great orographical importance, and does by no means confound it with the Kwen-lun. However, the exploration in the Kara-korum was still at its threshold. When J. P. FERRIER complains of the unreliability of the maps of regions situated much farther west, one could, at this time, hardly speak of any maps at all from Western Tibet.' |
| | | | | I On a pu remarquer dans le cours de ce journal diverses annotations propres à servir à la rectification des cartes d'Asie qui existent actuellement. Il y en a peu ou point d'exactes. Des rivières et des lacs ont été omis. Le cours des autres est mal tracé. Des districts entiers, regardés comme déserts, sont au contraire fertiles et très - peuplés.... Voyages en. Perse, dans l'Afghanistan, le Béloutchistan et le Turkestan. Paris 186o. Tome II, p. 383. |
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