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0128 Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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In the preceding chapters we have seen that Humboldt and Ritter derived
their material on Tibetan orography from the information given from Chinese sources
by Klaproth. We have also seen how great the difference was between Klaproth's
original sketches of 1821 (Pl. IV and Pl. V) and his great map of 1836 (Pl. III). If
therefore, Klaproth, had furnished the great geographers with the material they needed,
he could, himself, after fifteen years, make use of the way, in which Humboldt and
Ritter had brought the Chinese descriptions into harmony with the general laws of
physical geography. But we shall also see that in many important particulars he
was not in the least influenced by the two great geographers. On the contrary,
for instance in the case of the Hor or Khor Range, he sometimes, interprets the
original texts in quite an independent way. Only some 70 or 80 years later could
these problems be cleared up by European exploration.

In this chapter I will show how Transhimalaya and other Tibetan mountain
systems were represented on European, and more especially German maps, from
1820 to 1850. It is both impossible and superfluous to try to be complete in
such a case as this. Klaproth's translations influenced all maps from this epoch,
but were not always interpreted in the same way. For our demands it will be
sufficient to discuss a few different maps showing how the conception has been
changing.

In D'OHSSON's work¹ there is an excellent map of Asia engraved with a fine-
ness and delicacy which are rare in our own time. Its title is *L'Asie au commen-
cement du Treizième Siècle, Dressée par le Chᵉʳ Lapie Géographe, 1824.* Pl. IX
gives an idea of the southern part of LAPIE's map. Tubbet or Tibet is bordered
on the north by the Kwen-lun system which on 80° East. longitude divides itself into
two branches, one stretching E.N.E. to the regions north of Koko-nor, the other
continuing south-eastwards in the direction of Tengri-nor. The upper Indus runs
between two almost parallel ranges. The source-branches of this river are drawn