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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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and used eastern sources as well as western, it is of a certain value, when consider-
ing the history of exploration in the southern half of Tibet, to remember that the
greatest authority of the period and one of the greatest who ever lived, calls the
mountains of the part of southern Tibet where Transhimalaya is situated, an absolute
terra incognita. And he arrives at that conclusion after an exposé, the principal
features of which are in general correct. This proves that he was sceptical regard-
ing the Chinese maps and texts. Or that he regarded their material as wholly un-
sufficient for the strict scientific geography of which he was the greatest representativ.
Thus we may start again from the fact that in 1834 the existence of a Transhimalaya
was, in geographical circles, regarded as pretty certain, although it was wholly
unknown.
Of the southern range, south of the Tsangpo, Ritter says: »Dagegen zieht
sich, als Südkette von da (Kailas) auf eine Strecke von 60 geogr. Meilen (1 000 Li),
auf der Grenze gegen Nepal (Bhalbo), das Thung-la-Gebirge, dessen Gipfel sehr
hoch und steil sind, dessen ungeheure Schneemassen, die dasselbe bedecken, niemals
schmelzen; dies ist also die Nepalesische Himalaya-Kette mit der Dhawalagiri-Gruppe.«
And between these two, the northern and the southern, and in the western part of
the valley, is the source of the Tsangpo, which Ritter, in spite of Klaproth, has not
the slightest doubt is the upper course of the Brahmaputra. But he regards even
the Tsangpo as pretty unknown, and what else could be expected in 1834!¹
In the next chapter we shall have to return to Grimm's map of 1832, illustrat-
ing the Tibetan orography of Ritter.
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