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Southern Tibet : vol.3 |
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longer any great white blanks in Tibet, although of course thousands of small un-
explored regions still remain.
I have tried to follow the history of sheet N:o 62 that has been in *Stieler's
Hand-Atlas* for 90 years. A staff of the most able German cartographers of the time
has been working at this single sheet and there are years of conscientious, indefatig-
able and patient work in it. The spectator ought to look at this sheet with great
respect, remembering all the toil and patience it has cost not only the explorers but
also the cartographers at home to clear up this little bit of the earth's surface,
which is, however, one of the most difficult and inaccessible in the whole world.
There is one thing I should like to point out especially and that can be con-
trolled from the reproductions given, and that is, that no German cartographers, at
least not those of Gotha, have accepted the extraordinary fantasies of Saunders as
to his range north of the Tsangpo and stretching to the N.E. of Lhasa. The Gotha
cartographers would never accept anything but information resting upon real observa-
tion, and they would not have it, and they were wise enough never to adopt this Gangri
range, which does not exist and which would have remained as a memorial of their
credulity if they had believed in it. But on the other hand one long range north
of the Tsangpo may be found on some German maps, for instance, the famous map
of Asia drawn by Heinrich Berghaus in 1843 (Pl. XIII).ยน But it is nothing like
the enormous, single-crested range of Hodgson and Saunders, which was copied by
Atkinson. It is conjectural, but not quite so bad as the English one. After this
confusion of different theories and native descriptions the fundamental features have
now at last appeared as they are on my map and it will be the duty of future
exploration to fill in all the details in those parts of the Transhimalaya, which I had
no time or opportunity to visit.
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