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0130 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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CHAPTER X.

DEGUIGNES AND GEORGI.

As an example of the knowledge of Asiatic orography in the middle of the
18th century, I may quote here some extracts from DEGUIGNES, which in several respects
are remarkable. In his description, as, for instance, on the map of STRAHLENBERG,
only the eastern parts of Tibet exist, not the western. He says of it:¹ Ce royaume
est ce que nous appellons précisément le Tibet, ou le Boutan, que l'on distingue en
grand & petit Tibet. C'est un pays plein de montagnes, où peu de voyageurs ont
pénétré. Les Chinois le nomment Tou-fan ou Si-tçang.... Lassa, autrement nommée
Barantola, est la capitale de ce grand pays. But on the other hand, he includes
under the expression »Tibetan nations» all those peoples who are living west of the
provinces of Shen-si and Sze-chuan all the way to the sources of the Indus.

The great orographical features of High Asia he expresses in the following
words, and with a perspicacity and intelligence which hardly had occurred before
his time: Au nord des sources du Ganges, il s'élève une chaîne de montagnes qui
va gagner Khoten, Yerken et Kaschgar, courant au nord & à l'ouest. A Kaschghar,
elle tourne vers le nord-est & va jusqu'à la riviere d'Ili qu'elle suit en remontant
au nord. C'est là ce que Ptolémée appelle le mont Imaüs, par lequel il divise la
Scythie en deux parties.²

With the knowledge existing at the middle of the 18th century, an erudite
scholar who tried to combine recent information with the geography of PTOLEMY,
could hardly arrive at any other conclusion. As so many cartographers of this
period and before this time, DEGUIGNES believes that only one single mountain range
exists between India and Little Bokharia. This range, in which the sources of the
Ganges are situated, turns to the north and west, and has Khotan, Yarkand and
Kashgar at its northern base. From Kashgar it turns to the N. E. and north and
is identified as the meridional Imaus of Ptolemy.