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0054	Southern Tibet : vol.3
南チベット : vol.3

country is here too little known to make it possible for anyone at all to settle the
question, but d'Anville may be right, or rather the sources which he has used.¹

Of great interest is d'Anville's Temen M. N.E. of Tengri-nor, which probably
corresponds to Abbé Huc's Tangla. Klaproth shows that the name Temen belongs
to a plain, Temen tala, situated north of Iké Nomkhoûn oubachi and south of the
river Baka Akdam. ²Dans les cartes de d'Anville, et par conséquent dans toutes
les postérieures, cette montagne (Iké Nomkhoûn oubachi) est nommée par erreur
M. Temen.² Very likely this Temen M. or Tangla may be the eastern continua-
tion of one of the great Kara-korum ranges.

If nothing else can be learnt from d'Anville's maps regarding Transhimalaya,
one would always suspect, when looking attentively at these maps, that there could
not possibly exist one continuous range, but very probably a whole labyrinth of
different and more or less separated ranges. One would think that perhaps in
reality there existed a great number of ramifications stretching out their arms in
different directions from a principal range. But there is no sign of such a range
on d'Anville's map in the region corresponding to the one I explored. If HODGSON
and SAUNDERS had studied the Chinese maps attentively they would have hesitated
to enter on their maps a continuous mountain range parallel with the whole of the
Tsangpo and without ramifications. But as they did so they must have regarded
d'Anville's maps and other maps founded on Chinese material as very unreliable.

To do so would indeed be unjust, for we have seen that the map is very
uneven and of different value in different parts. We have seen that extremely
seldom, practically only in the cases of the sources of the two great rivers, the
mountains are correct. In three or four cases the lakes are rather good, in some
cases rivers which do not exist, as the Tarcou Tsanpou and probably the Nacoi R.,
are drawn on the map. We arrive at the conclusion that some parts have really been
roughly surveyed, others filled in from verbal information, which is always misleading.
Therefore such lakes as Shuru-tso and Dangra-yum-tso have been placed in a way
which has not the faintest resemblance to the truth. Such lakes as Teri-nam-tso,
Poru-tso, Shovo-tso, Nganglaring-tso and others cannot be found on d'Anville's map.
On the Ta-ch'ing map the Dzolmié thang is the lake which both in form and situa-
tion has the greatest likeness to Nganglaring-tso. It is to be found on d'Anville's
map as well, north of M. Mouron. If, on d'Anville's map, Cal M. should be meant
to represent Ka-la, a very important pass on the ²gold-road², the lake, from which
Nacoi R. comes would be Nganglaring-tso. But one loses oneself in guesses when
trying to identify the representation on d'Anvilles map.

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