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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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A German and a Frenchman, KLAPROTH and RÉMUSAT, were the first pioneers
to open up new perspectives on Asiatic geography by way of using the Chinese
sources. One has a feeling of standing upon solid ground when studying their
translations and discussions of the Chinese geographers.¹ At a time when European
explorations had not yet penetrated into the interior of High Asia, the classical
Chinese information was of a still greater value and importance than in our days.
Amongst explorers of the epoch who have contributed, in a very modest
degree it is true, to the knowledge of the region in question, was JAMES B. FRASER.²
Speaking of the breadth of the mountainous tract that overlooks Hindustan, he says:³
»In all the routes of which we have accounts that proceed in various directions to-
wards the Trans-Himalayan countries, hills covered with snow are occasionally mentioned
as occurring, even after the great deserts are passed and the grazing country entered.
The breadth, then, of this crest of snow-clad rock itself cannot fairly be estimated
at less than from seventy to eighty miles.»
And further, of the general orographical morphology of the country: »The
only European travellers who are known to have entered on this new ground are
Messrs. Moorcroft and Hearsay, who penetrated by the Nitee-Mama pass, and reached
the lake of Mantulloee, Mansrowar, or Mepang. All these sources lead us to presume
a pretty extensive detail of hills beyond the loftiest belt, that by no means terminate
even at Gara or Gartope, though they do not reach the height of those to the
westward and southward. A branch of the Cailas range, undoubtedly a ramification
of the Himâla, stretches out beyond the lake Mansrowar, a considerable way towards
Gartope. Beyond this point there seem at present to exist no grounds on which
even a conjecture may be formed concerning the nature of the country.»
Fraser is aware of the fact that the mountains near Gartok are exceeded in
height both by the mountains to the south and those to the west, i. e. the Himalaya
and the Kara-korum. The Kailas is in his opinion a ramification of the Himalaya.
At another place, talking of the source of Bhagirath, Fraser returns to the
question of the breadth of the »Snowy Range» and makes it increase to a hundred
miles, which still would not even reach to the course of the Tsangpo:
The breadth of the mountainous region may probably occupy a space of from
eighty to one hundred miles: The grounds for supposing this to be the extent of that
space, are not only our own observation, but the information we have received from diffe-
rent and intelligent persons, relative to routes through the passes. Thus reasoning from
probabilities, observation and information, Rudra Himâla is at least removed to the center
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