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0222 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 222 (Color Image)

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CHAPTER XVIII.

KLAPROTH.

In previous volumes of this work I have often had occasion to mention the
magnificent way in which J. Klaproth, the great German scholar, has contributed
to Europe's knowledge of the geography of Central Asia.¹

He has formed an epoch in the history of the scientific study of everything
regarding Tibet, especially by the information he brought together from Chinese
sources, and there is hardly a single problem of geographical importance, to which
he has not contributed in a prominent way. He was the first to prove the existence
of a mountain system north of the Tsangpo. He furnished Ritter, Humboldt and
other geographers with reliable material, and thus created a solid frame to an
understanding, both of the orography and the hydrography of High Asia. He
constructed the best map of Central Asia and Tibet which had ever been made since
d'Anville's days a hundred years earlier, and which did not become antiquated for
some 40 or 50 years.²