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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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a constant sinking of its surface was easy to observe. It was sinking, not on account
of desiccation, but by the gradual erosion of the outflowing water. The highest
beach-lines were found at 25½ feet above the present level. It is hard to see why
the lake should be salt if it had an outlet, unless he means that this had been cut
off in later years.
After the slate, gneiss and granite appeared, and then, beyond Bash-malgun
in the Kara-kash valley, greenstone and porphyry. At Sumgal they left the Kara-
kash valley and turned north to Ilchi-davan. East of it the guide knew another
pass, Yurung-kash-davan, the same which JOHNSON calls Yangi-davan. Ilchi-davan
(17,379 feet) was surrounded by the névées of the Sumgal glacier to the south,
and the Bushia-glacier to the north. August 25th they continued to Bushia where
the Bushia-darya falls into the Khotan-darya, which itself joins the Kara-kash 15 miles
below Ilchi, all information which he must have got from his guides. He adopts
the division in Western and Eastern Kwen-lun, and he regards the Kwen-lun as
the fourth range on the earth, considerably lower than the Kara-korum and Himalaya,
but coming near the Andes.
August 29th, 1856, they went down the Kara-kash to its junction with the
Suget River. On both sides of the Kara-kash valley, gneiss and mica slate was
found. The Suget Pass is given as 17,683 feet high. September 4th they again
crossed the Kara-korum Pass and returned to Leh the same way as before.
After having accomplished this journey the Schlagintweit brothers wrote:
We are fortunate enough to have been the first Europeans that ever crossed the
chains of the Karakorum and of the Kuenlüen; Dr. Thomson had proceeded so far as to
reach the Karakorum pass, but the Kuenlüen, erroneously considered as the watershed
between Central Asia and India, had hitherto remained a perfectly unknown and unvisited
territory, Marco Polo, in the 13th century, only penetrated in these parts as far south as
Kashgar. ¹
At another place Hermann says: Als geographisch neu hatte sich ergeben,
dass die Karakorüm-Kette als die wasserscheidende Linie entgegentritt. Nach Norden,
hatte man geglaubt, sei die Grenze des indisch-tibetischen Stromgebietes erst durch
die Kette des Künlün gebildet, den übrigens damals kein Europäer, weder vom
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