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manuscrits, recueillis en Sibérie. La position des volcans de l'Asie centrale qui ont été
placés avec soin, et la fixation de quelques hauteurs au-dessus et au-dessous du niveau de
l'Océan, donnent peut-être un certain intérêt à ma première ébauche d'une carte des chaînes
de montagnes de l'Asie, et la distinguent de toutes celles qui ont été publiées jusqu'à
présent.¹

I have not been able to find a copy of the map of PANSNER. As to the map
illustrating the work of MEYENDORFF, it falls outside and too far west of our region,
whilst the map of LÉDEBOUR is much too far north. The map of WADDINGTON
has been discussed above (Pl. XXVI). The two remaining maps with which Humboldt
begins his list of sources, are of such great interest that I have thought necessary
to have them reproduced.

Comparing Humboldt's little sketch-map, Pl. XXIX,² with l'Asie gravée par
M. Berthe en 1829, Pl. XXX,³ it must be said that the resemblance is very
great so far as the orographical and hydrographical systems are concerned. The
rivers are exactly the same, for instance, the courses of the Tsangpo, the Indus and
the Tarim. The mountains north of the Tarim Basin are called Moussour by
FREMISS and BERTHE, Thianchan by HUMBOLDT. Pamir and Bolor are about the
same in both cases, though Humboldt has given the latter range a S. S. W. direction
instead of S. S. E., which was no improvement. The map of 1829 has M. Karangoui
as a ramification from the southern part of the Bolor Range at the same place
where Humboldt has entered the name Tsoungling. Fremiss-Berthe have only the
eastern part of the Kwen-lun, and in the west M. Karakorum Padichah borders
directly upon the Tarim Basin. The western prolongation of the Kara-korum is
the Hindoukouch. Here Humboldt has improved the situation by sketching the
Kouenloun or Kwen-lun north of the Kara-korum. To the east and E. S. E. the
Kara-korum, on the map of 1829, seems to stand in a certain relationship to a
range situated between the names Katché and Khor, which also are entered on
Humboldt's map, where, however, the range itself is a ramification from the Kwen-
lun without any contact whatever with the Kara-korum. Here Humboldt is more
in accordance with the truth, for his Kara-korum continues eastwards in the Kaylas
and Dzang ranges and his map, therefore, indicates the relationship between the
Kara-korum and the mountains north of the Tsangpo. On both maps the mountainous
country in the west, between the Indus and the Yarkand-daria, is too narrow, and
therefore Humboldt could speak of a mountain knot where the Himalaya, the Kwen-lun

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