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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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et des chevaux. En général l'air est très-malsain. Plus loin l'on rencontre encore
à moitié chemin une grande montagne, qui est couverte de glace pendant toute
l'année, car le soleil ne s'y fait jamais sentir. On y voit un lac, qu'on laisse
à quinze pas de distance....» Approaching Tibet there is another mountain which
can be crossed only by the help of »cotas» or yaks, and not far from Tibet there
is a town, entirely situated on the slope of a mountain. The last-mentioned mountain
is, of course, Chang-la, and the »town» is Tikse-gumpa. We easily recognize the
Kara-korum Pass, and the ice-covered mountain may be Saser-davan, or perhaps, the
Kumdan glaciers, which seems the more likely as he mentions a lake, or more
probably a river.
I will finish this chapter with a résumé of the orography of the English edition
of Sultan Baber's Memoirs, which in some particulars is of no small interest.¹
In the preface, p. XII and XIII, W. Erskine gives some hints regarding the
materials of the map, which was constructed by Mr. Charles Waddington of the
Bombay Engineers: Thus some valuable manuscripts of Lt. Macartney and of
Captain Irvine were used, regarding the provinces to the north and west of Hindustan.
From Mr. Moorcroft he got Syed Izzet Ullah's journal in Persian. The route
of the latter was found to traverse great parts of the nearly unknown districts often
spoken of by Baber, and crosses the Emperor's kingdom. This journal was found to
be of the greatest service in the construction of the map. The result was a very nice
Map of the Countries of Ferghana & Bokhara, chiefly constructed from original
Routes and other documents. There is a note dated Bombay, December 1816,
and signed by Waddington: «N. B. The Country south of Bokhara & Samarkand, is
laid down, with several alterations & additions, from the map of Lieut. Macartney,
corrected by the Hon. M. Elphinstone.»
To us the orography is the most interesting feature of the map (Pl. XXVI).
To the north, Ferghana or the valley of Sir-daria, is bounded by the Ming Bûlâk
Mountains, and to the south by a very long range carrying, from west to east, the
following names: Ak Tâgh or White Mountains, Asferah Mountains, and Mûz Tâgh.
From this range two meridional ranges start towards the south. The western one
crosses Karâtigin, and is called Kara Tâgh or Black Mountains, the eastern one is
called Belut Tâgh or Cloudy Mountains. From the Mountains of Pushtikhur, the
latter sharply turns to the S. W. but without changing its name. This map is
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