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0264	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0264

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

The tiny little map which is merely used as a decoration or frontispiece on
the title page of Ritter's learned essay of 1828,¹ here reproduced as Pl. XXXIV, is,
in spite of its small scale, of very great interest, and from some points of view still
more surprising than the map just discussed (Pl. XII of Vol. III). Here the great
features, the orographical skeleton of Tibet, are very correctly represented. The
mighty protuberance north of India which he calls Hoch-Asien or High Asia, is
bordered by the Himalaya to the south, and the Küen-lün to the north. South of
the latter, and bounded to the south by the upper courses of the Indus and the
Tsangpo, we find two mountain ranges of the same length as the Himalaya and
the Kwen-lun and parallel to them. Only two names are entered upon these ranges,
Bolor in the far west of the northern one, and Tibet Gebirg in the eastern half of
the southern, whilst the Kailas is a short independent range north of the Manasarovar.
These two ranges may indeed be said to represent the Kara-korum System and
its eastern continuation. Disregarding the fact that the Kwen-lun turns to the N. E.,
which makes Eastern Tibet much broader, this little map may be said to be more
like reality than maps published some 40 years later.
One year later, or 1833, RITTER published the map, drawn by J. L. GRIMM,
and partly reproduced here as Pl. XXXV.² The object of the reproduction is only
to show how Ritter, in 1833, imagined the S. E. continuation of the Kara-korum.
To the right or N. E. of the joint Indus and the Singzing-Kampa or Singi-kamba
he has his Kara-korum Gebirg drawn as a mighty range. This divides into two
branches, the eastern of which still follows the right side of the Singi-kamba, whilst
the western, which is pierced by the river, developes into the famous Cailas or Kylas
north of Manasarovar.
I have found it superfluous to reproduce here C. RITTER'S and F. A. O'ETZEL'S
map of the Interior of Asia in four sheets, published in 1840.³ Here we recognize some
of the principal features of the map Pl. XII in Vol. III, though the map now in
question is on a larger scale, and is very rich in detail. In the west we find the
Thsunling in intimate connection with the Puschtikur. To the north of these mountains
we find some of the names of Goës, such as Sacrithma, Sarcil or Sere kul and
Ciecialith or Tchicheklagh. The Pass Kara-korum is still shown as belonging to the

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