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南チベット : vol.1

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Southern Tibet : vol.1

南チベット : vol.1

other hand Schouten seems to be the first to point out the fact, very natural in
itself, that the snows in these mountains give rise to great rivers.

The Ptolemæan partition of India in intra and extra Gangem is accepted by
Schouten in a more modern form. Regarding the identification of the Ganges
with the Pison of Paradise, and the country of Havila with India, he only quotes
the opinion of the interpreters of the Holy Script. ¹ ›The Ganges takes its rise in
the mountains which are situated in the northernmost parts of India. Some have
written that it begins in Mount Caucasus, & others assert that it comes from the
high mountains of Thebet, which are entirely covered with snow.‹ He also talks of
the ›northern mountains which are along the Ganges‹, ² which does not well agree
with the orientation of the river from north to south, nor with his saying that the
river flows along the mountainous provinces of Mevat and Nahracut, the northern-
most provinces of Great India. ³

But when he tells us the old story of the Ganges taking its origin from the
rock with the Cow's Head, he quotes VAN TWIST, who has borrowed his statement
from Edoüard Terrijns, as Edward Terry is called in the book. ⁴

CHARDIN, 1664 to 1681, specially famous for his journeys in Persia, has a
rather antiquated view of Asiatic geography, and quotes Pliny, Curtius and Strabo, ⁵
while THEVENOT, who arrived at Surat in 1666, has more independent notions of
our regions. He has, however, not much room left for Tibet, which as so often

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