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crossed by Andrade's route to the lakes and Rudok. It is disappointing to find
Reg. Cabul north of the Kailas. But north of Montes Tebetici is Tibet Reg. North
of Lassa is Tanchut Regn., and north of Tibet is Regn. Cascar. But the towns of
Eastern Turkestan have to be sought for in quite different parts of Asia. Not the
slightest attempt to reconcile the routes of different travellers has been made. On
Marco Polo's route we find Cotam, Peim, Ciartiam (Cherchen), Desertum Lop
(infestum diabolicis illusionibus), Camul, etc., and on BENEDICT GOES' route, a long
way south of Marco Polo's, we read Hiarchan (Yarkand), Acsu, Turphan etc., and
between these two routes there is a tremendous system of mountains called Caucasus
mons. In the text he says that the Langur of Grueber must be the same mountains
as Ptolemy's Caucasus and Parapanisus. But as these are the Himalayas and their
western continuation, the Caucasus of the map, occupying the place of Kwen-lun,
is the same as the system which he calls Montes Tebetici. Of the Himalaya system
he thus seems to have made two different systems, between which Tibet and Cascar
have been placed.
There is another proof that the Montes Tebetici are really meant to be the
Himalayas and that is the situation of Lassa at their northern foot. From Lassa
the route of Grueber and Dorville crosses the Montes Tebetici and the Langur
mons before reaching Cadmendu, so it is difficult to understand how he could say
in his text that Langur was the same as Caucasus. On the map they are as far
apart as Peking and Macao. Lassa Reg. is south of the Montes Tebetici. The
route of the missionaries, from Cadmendu to Hedonda,¹ Mutgari and Battana,²
crosses between the two last mentioned cities a big river which is difficult to
identify. No conclusions can be drawn from the names. As the mysterious Lake
Kia is missing on this map, the river might be supposed to have taken the place
of the western river issuing from that lake and to be the Brahmaputra. But, on
the other hand, it is situated south-west of Nepal, and thus ought to represent one
of the tributaries of the Ganges. The two great mountain systems do not help us
very far. For, if Caucasus mons is meant to be Himalaya, the river rises on the
southern slope of the Himalaya and is a Gangetic tributary. If Montes Tebetici
represent the only Himalaya of the map, then the river pierces the Himalaya and
is the Brahmaputra, which seems the more likely as a city, Bengala, is situated
near its mouth in the Gulf of Bengal. The river has thus not the same delta with
the Ganges, which does not interfere, as the Jumna also reaches the sea without
joining the Ganges.
If Grueber had really nothing more to tell about his journey from the Great
Wall to Lhasa, one understands how this distance has become so short on the
map. Tronnier has traced the route to be approximately the same as HUC's and

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