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0234 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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CHAPTER XIX.

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.

In a preceding chapter we have already dealt with ALEXANDER VON HUM-
BOLDT'S views regarding the great mountain systems of Asia.¹ Here only a few
quotations from his works may be sufficient.

In 1829 Humboldt accomplished his journey to the Kirgiz steppes and Altai,²
the most important result of which was his great work, l'Asie Centrale written in
a scientific and methodic way and which is full of new perspectives and brilliant
ideas. But already several years before this journey he had directed his attention
to the question of the mountain ranges of Central Asia. In 1816 he published an
article on the height of the mountains to the north and N. W. of India.³

Here he speaks of the difficulty of measuring the height of mountains situated
far from the coast, amongst others »cette chaîne immense qui, sous les noms de
Hindoo-Coosh et l'Himalaya, s'étend depuis Herat et Caboul, a l'est de l'Indus,
jusqu'au-dela du Bourampouter.»⁴

The necessary material for his conclusions he gathers from ELPHINSTONE,
MACARTNEY, CRAWFORD, WEBB, COLEBROOKE, and MOORCROFT. In connection
with the researches of the latter, Humboldt expresses the following very sound view
regarding the morphology to the north of Himalaya: Il est impossible de réfléchir
sur le résultat de ces mesures, sans se demander si derrière le groupe de montagnes
de l'Himâlaya il ne se trouve pas quelque autre chaîne encore plus élevée.

He feels convinced of the existence of an enormous plateau-land in the interior
of Asia, the plateau-land of Tartary, a large part of which has, however, a very
insignificant height: