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the most probable, both cases are correct, the deep saddle of Kore-la seems to give
some support to the view, that the Ladak range is only a part of and belongs to
the Himalaya. But even if we leave all sort of speculation alone, the fact that the
Indus, Satlej and Brahmaputra break through both the Ladak range and the Hima-
laya ranges, gives to the Ladak range the same orographical position as the Great
Himalaya and the lower Himalaya ranges. This of course would not interfere with
the name which has been accepted by Burrard and Hayden.

The question of new names in formerly unknown countries is a difficult one.
The discoverer has of course the right to baptise mountain peaks and lakes which
nobody has visited before and which have no native names. Nobody has made use
of this right on a greater scale than Prshevalskiy, although many of the names he
has given, specially in the Kwen-luns, begin to disappear more and more from our
maps. Bonvalot has also dropped a lot of names behind him on his famous cross-
ing through Tibet. Only once, in 1896, have I given a European name to a
geographical feature in Asia, namely a peak in northern uninhabited Tibet, to which
I gave the name of King Oscar. Burrard and Hayden have proposed some names
for ranges, which are necessary and useful, and rather general appellations or terms
than names. They are always geographical, not personal, Asiatic not European, and
almost every one of them has its own history and raison d'être.

As regards the nomenclature of the Transhimalayan ranges, the following
quotations may serve as an illustration. In the summer of 1910 I wrote: ¹ »Herr
H. Habenicht, of Gotha, has suggested to me the name of 'Ryder range' for the
range situated to the north of the upper Brahmaputra, and I am only too happy to
accept it. I regard the Ryder range as stretching between the eastern end of the
Kanchung-gangri in the west, and the Ki-chu of Lhasa in the east. The range
bordering the very upper-most part of the upper Brahmaputra, say from Cha-chu
to Kailas, I should like to call the Strachey range, and the range from the Kailas
along the upper Indus the Montgomerie range. But all these are mere suggestions
which have to be submitted to the Survey of India and the Royal Geographical
Society, and unless they are approved I am not going to use the new names. As
a rule I hate European names on Asiatic maps. Wherever native names are to be
found, no other should ever be used. But in some cases, and for lack of native
names, it may be useful and practical to introduce exotic ones. And as far as Tibet
is concerned, no names have a greater right to appear on the map than those of
Montgomerie, Strachey, and Ryder.« ²

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