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0394	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

by the great flood on blocks of ice, which got stranded, and in melting, left the débris
with which they had been charged.
Over the Saser Pass he reached inhabited country.
In spite of Shaw's not quite clear views regarding the Kara-korum Range, the
latter is represented in very dark and sharp features on his map, Pl. LV.¹ There
is no southern Kara-korum, only *one* single range, crossed by the passes Mus-tagh
and Kara-koorum. No attention has, therefore, been paid to the discoveries of
VIGNE, GODWIN-AUSTEN, and others regarding the High Kara-korum with the gigantic
peaks and glaciers. He regards the Sanju-davan as situated on the northern crest
of the Kwen-lun Mountains, — but it is surprising to read »Thian Shan Range»
on the range south of it. From this Thian Shan Range his map has a range
branching off east-north-east, which is the Kwen-lun, and another to the south-east,
in which the Suget-davan is situated.
On the little Sketch Map of the Country north of India, at the end of Shaw's
book, only the Kuen Lun or Koulkoun Mts. and the Himalaya Mountains are entered,
but no Kara-korum. Here the influence of HUMBOLDT may be traced.
In the article *Central Asia in 1872*,² Robert Shaw, however expressed his
views regarding the »great revolution» which had recently taken place in our ideas
of the mountain-systems of Central Asia. He gives a short *résumé* of HUMBOLDT's
views, but recent observers, both British and Russian, were inclined to alter the
arrangement.
With regard to the unity of the Kwen-lun with the rest of the Himalaya,
Shaw had seen it and could testify to it. His reasoning is this: if you go up into
the mountains, you are to consider yourself as being in the same chain until you
come down again. Therefore certainly the Kwen-lun and the Himalaya are one.
The fact that you cross several parallel ranges and ridges does not interfere. He
does not find any reason why the Kwen-lun should be called a separate chain. If
the Oberland is a part of the Alps, then the Kwen-lun is a part of the Himalaya.
He tells us of a sportsman, Captain SKINNER, who went to the upper Kara-kash
and who left the Kara-korum Pass to the west, when he returned. In Leh he asked
Shaw: »What has become of the Karakoram Range? it has vanished!» And Shaw
adds: »Having thus abolished the Karakoram Chain, we may, I think, proceed to do
the same with several others, and notably with Humboldt's Bolor or Belut-Tagh.»
As to the city of Bolor, he leaves it to fade into the same mist of confusion as
the Karakoram Range and the kingdom of Prester John. He denies the existence
of Humboldt's north and south running Bolor Range, so much the more as »it is

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