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0341 Southern Tibet : vol.1
Southern Tibet : vol.1 / Page 341 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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1683, CASSINI had made a new m
ion of the earth, but the real triu
of the members of the French A
y DELISLE during the last spec
about 1720. Delisle is the firs
ord. He is the great reformer wh
truth upon his time.¹

² Delisle's admirable map of S.E
our plusieurs Relations portant
Guillaume Delisle, Paris 1705, 6
he draughtsman, with deep knowle
eral existing at his time, and it
pare the different scanty travelle
resulted in an almost correct kno
he part he had played for nort
ries have disappeared almost enti
ered to trace the chief features o
regions occupying our attention.
is formed by a very high mountai
On its northern side is Petit Tibe
In relation to Eskembu, Delisle h
al mistake, that both are situate
d there.
wn at the wrong side of the Indu
raises its walls on the banks of th
The next Panjab river after the
also shown by Sehanpor. The sm
e Chaul ou de Setmegur, must
or Sehind.⁴ This river is therefo
nt branches of the Panjab are sh

m Christian Sandin, Münster and Bla

and the ambitious Wiser led to ruin
e Frenchman De Lisle a debt of gra
camp in Remarkable map. It is rathe
Andrade and Cacella were epic to hi

on Visscher's map (Pl. XXIII). In c
the time was seen on Gastaldi's ma
but Eskembu, Islamic State the Lh
in Jongpoor is situated, the River Lh
Chana.