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0297 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 297 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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Russians and Armenians pass through Cashgar to Tibet, and even lower down;
but the Chinese arrest the progress of all eastward of Yarkand . . . . The people
of Cashgar itself are composed of Turks and Uzbeks, and visitors also arrive from
Tibet and Cashmeer.»¹

As to the principal orographical features of the interior of Asia nearly all intelligent
geographers followed HUMBOLDT as a leader. A few examples will be enough.
Speaking of the »Normal Directions of the ranges» C. ZIMMERMANN says: »Herr
Alex. von Humboldt hat diesen Gegenstand insbesondere behandelt und so vollständig
erwiesen, dass jeder, welcher im Stande ist, den Untersuchungen zu folgen, von der
allgemeinen Wahrheit des in den Grund-Lineamenten entworfenen Reliefs von Hinter-
Asien überzeugt werden muss.»²

Zimmermann's graphical arrangement of the names of the mountain ranges
represented here, is also influenced by Humboldt:

Wüste Turan Ebene Wüste des Tarim der
Bolor Chinesischen Westländer.
Das Taurus-System der Alten: Hindu-Kuh-Indischer Kaukasus-Künlün
Koh-i-Baba
Khorassanische Berge Suffield-Kho-Kette Mittlerer Himālaya
Kauda System
Khyber-Tira-Kalabagh-Salaketten
Kolinan-System
Iranische Ebene-Wüste Hala-Kette
Penjab- und Indus-Wüsten
Indischer Ozean.

From this schematic diagram appears that the Hindu-kush is regarded as the
western continuation of the Kwen-lun, whilst the western Himalaya approaches it from
the S. E. The highest and most powerful of all the systems, the Kara-korum, which
ought to have come in between Künlün and Westlicher Himalaja, is missing altogether.
Zimmermann has, however, a feeling of the existence of a mountain range south of