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0332 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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CHAPTER XXIV.

MAPS FROM THE FIRST THIRD OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY.

We are approaching the renaissance in the cartography over Tibet, an epoch
that is characterized by the single name d'Anville. But before we reach so far
we have to remember some of his forerunners, the most important of whom are
Delisle and Strahlenberg. However, I am proceeding chronologically as hitherto.

Pl. XXXVIII shows us the map of E. ISBRANTS IDES published in 1704.¹
Ides was sent as an ambassador through Siberia to China in 1692, and returned to
Russia in 1694. He had a copy of Witsen's map with him on the journey, and
improved it where it was wrong. In its corrected form the map was added to Ides'
narrative. Witsen says of it: »Ides' map is to a great part taken from my map ...
but he has improved it.» ²

In his text Ides does not touch our regions, and all he has to say of India is
that the Great Mogul's kingdom embraces all the countries and dominions which are
situated between the rivers Indus and Ganges down to the Gulf of Bengal.³

So far as our regions are concerned the likeness between Ides' and Witsen's
maps is, however, very insignificant. Ides has obviously, as Witsen, used a good
deal of Russian material; nearly all the lakes in the northern half of the map are