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南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

CHAPTER LXIII.

RECAPITULATION OF THE OROGRAPHY AND
MORPHOLOGY OF TIBET.

In Vol. I, II, III and VII of the present work I have dealt with the geography
of Tibet from a historical point of view. I have done my best not to forget or
overlook a single traveller or scholar from the remotest times to our own days.
Even if not absolutely complete, the material brought together will, I hope, be sufficient
to give the student a fairly clear idea of the slow and successive development of
our knowledge of the general geography and principal orographical features of this
country.

As a résumé or a kind of cartographical index to the history of exploration
in Tibet, especially from an orographical point of view, I have, on the accompanying
80 small sketches (Pl. LXXV—LXXXVIII), drawn the principal mountain ranges as
they were supposed to run by geographers and explorers of different epochs, all the
way from Ptolemæus Romæ, 1490, to Neve, 1910. The maps speak clearly enough
for themselves without a text that would only be a reiteration of what has already
been said. While the history of Asiatic maps in Europe may be regarded only as
embracing five centuries, the cartographical history of the Chinese, as is set forth by
Dr. Albert Herrmann in Vol. VIII of this work, embraces 3000 years and more.
It is, however, interesting to follow step by step through the centuries the difficult
and arduous struggle for knowledge of this remote and inaccessible world of moun-
tains which finally has brought us so far as is shown on the map in 1:1 000 000
accompanying this work.

After having examined the 80 small orographical maps, the reader will have
to direct his attention to Pl. LXXXIX which may be said to be the next step after
the maps of Burrard and Neve. It is a reproduction of the large map in
1:1 000 000, and therefore may be said to contain all the principal mountains known
to exist in Tibet. As has been described in the preceding chapters, I have made
an attempt to follow the alignments of the principal ranges which, on the map
(Pl. LXXXIX), have been drawn in thick, black lines. In the west the ranges, as

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