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0199 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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CHAPTER XVI.

THE DECADE 1818—1828.

In this chapter I have brought together some extracts of the writings of learned
geographers, who, with only one exception, have not been in Asia themselves. The
quotations given here are few, but quite sufficient to afford a clear idea of the state
of knowledge regarding the regions around the Kara-korum Mountains as it was
during the decade from 1818 to 1828. To the same period belong several of the
geographical works of the great German scholars, KLAPROTH, RITTER, and HUMBOLDT,
which are to be discussed in subsequent chapters.

When WILLIAM MARSDEN published his edition of MARCO POLO in 1810, he
had great difficulties to get the narrative of the Venetian to agree with the geographical
maps existing at the time. The mountains of Belur, Bolor, he finds on STRAHLEN-
BERG'S map, from which he thinks they have been borrowed by D'ANVILLE, but in
some respects the narrative is easier to fit in with the help of the new maps of the
time, amongst which was MACARTNEY'S (Pl. XXI). Marsden says: »This alpine
region named by eastern geographers Belûr or Belôr, is laid down in Strahlenberg's
map, from whence, apparently, it has been transferred to those of d'Anville; but its
position relatively to Pamir and Badakhshan will be found still more conformable to
our author's account, in the recent constructions of Macdonald Kinneir and Macartney.»¹

The map accompanying Marsden's work has been constructed by Messrs.
Walker & Sons under the direction of Major RENNELL. It is sufficient to mention
that on this map the Múz Mts. are placed east and E. S. E. of Pamir, and the Belor
Mts. south of Pamir and S. W. of the Múz Mts. North of Himalaya is Latak and
Tibet, the latter rather narrow, whilst Kobi is exaggerated in breadth and goes
down to 32° North. lat., a feature which we remember from several other maps of
this period, and earlier.

Four years later, or 1822, Count G. B. BALDELLI published a map of MARCO
POLO'S journey which is indeed rather surprising (Pl. XXIV).² I reproduce it only as