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0471 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 471 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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It, therefore, seems unlikely and monstrous that he should have committed
a fraud.¹

We should not leave this matter without saying a word of the map of the
apocryphal geography.

VENIUKOFF'S original article was illustrated by a map, Pl. LXIV: *The Bolor
Mountains and upper sources of the Amu Daria.* In the *Proceedings* 1868—69
a reprint of the same map was published on a reduced scale. There is a mighty
meridional range: »System of the Bolor Mountains», forming a water-parting between
the Amu-darya and the Tarim, and there is a place Bolor and a river Bolor. But
the most curious is the southern part of the map. From Pusht-i-kuh the Hindu-kush
stretches S. W. and the Kwen-lun straight east. Neither between the Indus at Skardo
and the Kwen-lun nor anywhere else on the map is there the slightest indication
of the Kara-korum. From the neighbourhood of Skardo a road goes along a tribu-
tary of the Indus, called Kutetsin up to a »Pass over Snowy Mountains», and
thence directly down to Yarkand, without touching any more mountains at all. It