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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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On his map¹ Burnes has *one* great range in the south: Himalaya, Indian
Caucasus and Hindoo Koosh; and north of it Kara-korum Ms. form a very inconsiderable
convexity. The name Kara-korum Ms. is entered only at the place where the Kara-
korum Pass is situated. The rest of the enormous system, which on RITTER'S map
of 1832, the same year as Burnes travelled, presents itself as two mighty ranges
and a third smaller one, is here shown as very insignificant hills. Burnes is aware
of the fact that all rivers south of the Kara-korum join the Shayok, and it is, therefore,
the more surprising that he could believe in the assertion that the Indus had one
of its sources near the Sarikol Lake.
On his map, *Central Asia,* 1834, JOHN ARROWSMITH has, south of Yarkand,
a range called Yagni Dawan or New Mn. which in reality corresponds to a part of
the Kwen-lun (*Vide* Pl. XXXVII). South of and parallel with this range he has
Tsoung-ling or Kara-korum Ms., drawn as a rather mighty mountain system. Farther
south the whole way to the Upper Indus and Leh he has only insignificant, detached hills.
The map of JAMES WYLD, 1839, *Map of the Countries lying between Turkey
& Birmah, etc.,* of which Pl. XXXVIII shows a part, is in no small degree influenced
by J. Arrowsmith. We again find the Yagni Dowan *(sic!)* or New Ms. and the Tsoung-
ling or Kara-korum Ms. The eastern continuation of his Yagni Dawan is called M.
Karangoui, M. Echimetis and Oneuta Mts. This long system of mountains represents
the Kwen-lun. His Kara-korum, on the other hand, comes to an end in the region
of the sources of the Shayok, south-east of which he has entered the word Desert.
Therefore, according to Wyld, the whole country east of the Shayok and Leh con-
sists in a very extended plateau-land desert, at any rate reaching so far as to the
Ike-namur-nor and Bagha-namur-nor, of his map.
WOOD'S journey in 1838 does not fall within the limits of Kara-korum proper.
In his general view of the mountains he does not ever mention this system. He says:
»In speaking of the Hindú Kosh range of mountains in contradistinction to the
Himalaya, it may be well to define both chains. The latter, as is well known, bounds
Hindustan on the north, and after crossing the river Indus extends westward to the
valley of Panchshir and the meridian of Kabul. The other chain I have before described.
They are connected by numerous lateral ridges, and evidently belong to the same
great system of the Himalayan-Tartaric mountains, which extend both to the east
and west beyond the limits to which any experience reaches. Hindú Kosh is their
northern wall, Himalaya is the southern one. The former, however, would appear to
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