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0058 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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CHAPTER IV.

BENEDICT GOËS.

It is surprising that such a critical man as ANTONIO DE MONSERRATE, who
penetrated so many geographical questions in a quite modern style, and even was
the first to catch the name of the Sacred Lake, did not use the native names for
the Himalayan Mountains, but preferred to stick to the classical appellations which
had been in use ever since the mountains north of India first became known to
Europeans, or nearly two thousand years, and which had been crystallised by
PTOLEMY. Thus the same names, Paropamisus, Caucasus and Imaus, which are to
be found, for instance, on the World-map published at Venice in 1554, also appear
on Monserrate's map. He seems not to have been willing to follow the example
given by JACOPO GASTALDI in 1561, who on his famous map had entered the
names Monte Dalangver, Monte Naugracot and Monte Vssonte. He knew at least
the second of these three names, which he mentions at some places in his MS,
e. g.: Duodeuiginti milliaribus, Nagarcottum a Calanuro distat, quod perinde est,
quod Nagāris arx, vel castellum . . . .¹ He preferred to call the mountains above
Nagarkot, Imaus, instead of giving them the appellation Mons Naugracot.²

It would be interesting to follow through 23 centuries, the history of the
names of the Himalaya. This would be quite a big task, and as it does not fall
within the boundaries of this work, I will only mention two or three stages of the
nomenclature. We have already passed one of them, viz., Gastaldi, who abolished
the classical names, and adopted native appellations.

An attempt to arrange in systematic order the names by different authors
given to different parts of the great latitudinal mountain range or system which
since times immemorial was supposed to cross the whole of the Asiatic Continent,
was already made in 1596 by ABRAHAM ORTELIUS.³ In his Thesaurus one has to
look up every special name. Under the name Paropamisus, for instance, he