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0420 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 420 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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(Bolor Gebirge). To the south we see three different ranges: the Kilan range which
is small, — south of it the Western and Eastern Kwen-lun separated from each
other by the Kara-kash valley, and farther south the Mus-tagh or Kara-korum
Range, which, at about 77° East. long., divides into three branches, one situated
between Shayok and Nubra; the second is the branch with the Saser Pass, and
the third is the principal watershed between the Shayok and Kara-kash. The Lak
Tsung Range may be regarded as a fourth branch between Lingzi-tang and Taldat.

Much on this map is conjecture, but, in general, it gives a correct idea of the
situation of the principal ranges and a very clear representation of the hydrography.
It is also important as an station on the road of exploration, for it contains all
material available in 1871.

*The Punjab and its Dependencies with portions of the Northwest Provinces
and Afghanistan, 1870; Compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General of India
from the latest Surveys*, is the title of a map quite up to date, and with all the
great glaciers known at that time. The name Kara Koram Mountains is confined
only to the part of the system where the Kara-korum Pass is situated. I have not
reproduced it here.

Pl. LIX shows the relation which in 1862 was supposed to exist between the
Kwen-lun and the Kara-korum.¹