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De Guignes, the Chinese call them Tien-c'han and the Tartars Kiloman, or the celestial
mountains. In Tibet they call them Tangra, or Tangla, according to F. Cassiano and
Pura'n-gir; the latter accompanied the late Lama to China, and gave me an accurate journal
of his march from Tissoo-Lumbo to Siling, or Sining. Tingri, in the language of the Tartars
and Moguls, signifies the heavens; and even Tibet is called Tibet-Tingri, or the heavenly
country of Tibet. The name of Tien-c'han is given by the Chinese to the mountains to
the North of Hima: to the Southern part of the circle, they give the name of Sioue-
c'han, or snowy mountains. This range, says De Guignes, runs along the northern limits
of India, toward China, encompassing a large space, enclosed, as it were, within a circle
of mountains. The Southern extremity of this circle is close, according to the present
Hindu maps, to the last, or Northern range, called Nishad'ha; and this is actually the
case with the mountains of Tangrah, near Lassa, which is in the interval between the
second and third range. According to F. Cassiano, the mountains of Tangrah are seen
from the summit of Cambálá, several days journey to the Westward of Lassa. The famous
Pura'n-gir left them on the left, on his way from Tissoo-Lumbo to China, at the distance
of about twelve coss, and did not fail to worship them. At the distance of seventy-seven
coss from the last place, he reckoned Lassa to be about twenty coss to the right; twenty-
three coss beyond that, he was near the mountains of Ninjink Tangrá, a portion of that
immense circular ridge. In his progress toward the famous temple of Ujuk, or Uzuk, called
Souk in the maps, he saw them several times. Close to Ninjink-Tangra he entered the
mountains of Lurkinh, called Larkin in the maps.

From German sources, more specially from PALLAS, is an article by J. REUILLY,
1808. Here the climate of N. E. Tibet is described thus:

Le Tangout est un pays étendu et peuplé; comparativement à la Sibérie, il
est situé sous un climat très modéré. Les rivières ne gèlent que dans la partie du
nord où la neige a de la durée.¹

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