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0479	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

The northern crest, which under the names of Kuen-Luen, Karakoram, and Múz-
tágh, runs into Pamir, is prolonged to the west above Badakhshán, and forms the watershed
between the Oxus and the Cabul river, continues under the names of Koh-i-Bábá, Hindú-
kúsh, &c, to the north of Cabul, and finally traversing Khorassán at a much diminished
altitude, reappears in the Elburz, to the south of the Caspian.

A very good map by ARROWSMITH accompanies the work. Here the Kara-
korum, the Muztagh, the Hindu-kush, the Kuh-i-Baba and the Siah-kuh form one
long range.

Captain H. TROTTER, in 1877, gave the following description of a more
easterly road across the Kara-korum and Kwen-lun.¹

The road from Noh skirts the Pangong Lake, which at Noh is joined by a stream
from the north-east, up which goes a good road to Khotan, viâ Polu and Kiria. — The
distance to Khotan by this road is about 450 miles. For a distance of 40 miles from Noh
it gradually rises to a height of 15,000 feet, and then for about 160 miles as the crow
flies, crosses, in a north-easterly direction, a series of elevated plains and ridges, before
it descends somewhat suddenly to the plains of Eastern Turkistán. The average height
above the sea-level of the halting-places on the elevated plain to the north of Noh is
16,500 feet. This vast highly-elevated plateau over which the road passes is the eastern
continuation of the Ling-zi-Thang and Aksai Chin plains, which lie at a similar, or in
places even higher, elevation in a north-westerly direction from Noh, between the Chang-
chenmo River and the Kuen Luen Range, and have to be crossed by the traveller who
adopts the Eastern (or Chang-chenmo) route between Leh and Yarkand.

It has been said above (Vol. III, p. 184) that TR. SAUNDERS regarded the
Kara-korum as a »range».

His own words are: The upper valleys of the Sanpu, the Satlej, and the Indus
appear to form a huge elevated trough separating the Himalaya from the northern part
of the table-land of Tibet, and from the snowy range into which that table-land contracts
at its western end. This range is crossed by traders in its narrowest parts, through the
Mustagh pass, and also through the Karakorum pass.

He regards the Tibetan plateau as extending from the Upper Indus and Tsangpo
on the south to the plains of Gobi on the north. The »Southern Chain» which in
reality is the same as my Transhimalaya, he called Gangri or Gang-disri, so far as
it separates the Tsangpo and Indus basins from the elevated lake basin of the
Tibetan plateau. And he is partly right in his theoretical conclusion that the »Kara-
korum Range» is a continuation of the Gangri-Mountains. In opposition to SHAW
he proves that the Kara-korum is a range on account of its height, its length ex-
ceeding 300 miles, and its function as a water-parting.

Regarding the Kwen-lun Mountains, they are believed to extend continuously
between the Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert. At the western extremity of the
plateau they were known to do so and to continue as far east as 81° 30'. The

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