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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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Of the Nien-chen-tang-la he says: »To the south the lake is bounded by a splendid range of snowy peaks, flanked with large glaciers, culminating in the magnificent peak, Jáng Ninjinthangla, which is probably more than 25 000 feet above the sea. The range was traced for nearly 150 miles, running in a north-easterly direction. To the north of the lake the mountains were not, comparatively speaking, high, nor were there any high peaks visible farther north, as far as the explorer could see . . . He only saw a succession of rounded hills . . .»¹
Some fossil shells found by the explorer were examined by Mr OLDHAM who thought they could not be older than cretaceous.
»The proof of the existence of a great snowy range to the north of the Brahmaputra is interesting, the Himalayan system, even at that distance, say 160 miles from its base in the plains of India, showing no signs of getting lower.» Here at last Montgomerie touches, although only in a few words, upon this problem, which was, as compared with all the rest, the most important and grand to be solved on the other side of the Himalaya. It had been proved by the explorer, if anybody doubted the unanimous statement of the Chinese surveyors, that a great snowy range really existed north of the Tsangpo, — between the meridians of Shigatse and Lhasa, a range, that was identical with the Chinese Nien-chen-tang-la.
The extremely conscientious careful and thorough scientific methods of Montgomerie are even more clearly visible in the sentence quoted than usual. The fact that d'Anville already had this range on his map and that Georgi in 1762 had spoken of a nova series elatiorum nivosorumque montium, and that Klaproth, Ritter and Humboldt had written about the Nien-chen-tang-la, was not sufficient for him. He wanted proofs before he laid out such a range on his map. Kailas had been known for hundreds of years in India, described in Chinese texts, translated into French, and seen and fixed by Moorcroft and the Stracheys. Nain Sing had seen two sections of the ranges north of the Tsangpo, halfway between Manasarovar and Lhasa. Montgomerie's own explorers had crossed high passes north of Manasarovar and south of Tengri-nor, and still I cannot find any place in Montgomerie's writings
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