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0223 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / 223 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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According to Klaproth the whole of Tibet is traversed by three very high mountain ranges. The one farthest south is the Himalaya, situated to the south of Rakas-tal and Manasarovar. The second range begins far in the west at the gigantic peak of Gang-dis-ri or Kailasa. Farther east it includes the sources of the Tsang-po and runs eastwards to the south of this river. »The third range is the eastern prolongation of that of the Kara korrum; it begins at the point where the latter joins with a branch of the Kailasa, coming from the south, and separates Tibet from the country occupied by the nomad hordes of the Khor or Mongols, surrounds the lakes from which the Tarkou dzangbo (Targu-tsangpo) takes its origin.» The range then runs on the southern shore of Tengri-nor, and forms, at its S. E. corner, a group of very high glaciers, which, in Tibetan are called Nian-tsian tangla gangri (Nien-chen-tang-la). »These three ranges of Tibet are joined with one another by several smaller intermediate ranges, which, however, are very high, and of which several also possess glaciers at different points.»¹

Klaproth thus points out that there is a continuous mountain system north of the Tsangpo, and not, as d'Anville had represented it on his map, detached mountains without orographical order. He boldly says that this mountain system is the eastern prolongation of the Kara-korum, which is a proof of remarkable perspicacity. The view of this range being a boundary between Tibet and the nomadic tribes of the Khor to the north, which was very nearly correct, was afterwards accepted by Ritter and Humboldt, and from them by Brian Hodgson.² We