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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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his map marks an enormous improvement if compared with those of his pre-
decessors.
In this connection the famous Wall-Maps in the Sala dello Scudo, in the Doge's
Palace at Venice cannot be passed by with silence. At least one of them, embracing
the whole eastern half of Asia, and part of America, is of special interest to us. ¹
The four maps were drawn by Giacomo Gastaldi in the middle of the sixteenth
century in place of the older maps which had been destroyed by fire in 1483. The
map of East Asia is, beyond doubt, a work of Gastaldi. All four maps were restored
by Francisco Grisellini in 1762.²
Comparing the two maps, Gastaldi 1561, and Grisellini's restoration of 1762,
with each other, we must confess that the latter is by no means an improvement,
so far as our regions are concerned. The coast-lines of the Indian peninsulas have
not undergone any change in 200 years.³ The two great rivers and the northern
mountains are practically the same as before. But Camul, Hami, which in 1561 at
least was placed north of the Himalaya, is now removed to the south of it, amongst
the feeders of the Ganges. North of eastern Himalaya is Cataio Provincia, and
north of it Tangut. Still further north is the Deserto di Lop. E.S-E. of the sources
of the Ganges, and N.N-E. of the mouths of the same river, is Thebeth, which there-
fore seems to be placed somewhat south of the eastern continuation of the Himalaya.
Grisellini must be said to have been successful in preserving all the charac-
teristic features of Gastaldi's map, and he has been extremely conscientious in avoid-
ing all the improvements which were so easily available at his time. The only
fact that he has saved such an absurdity as the Chayamay Lago is sufficient proof
that he would not alter Gastaldi's geography in the least. For already on Delisle's
map of 1723 this lake had disappeared altogether, and at Grisellini's time nobody
believed in its existence.⁴
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