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Southern Tibet : vol.7

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It is curious that the ranges of the Russian maps, the existence of which was,
however, very likely after Pievtsoff's expedition, were not accepted, but were replaced by
the word *unexplored,* whereas this word was missing north of the Tsangpo. Only
on a subsequent edition of the map, which was published with HOLDICH'S book, the
eloquent word was introduced at its right place.

In this connection we may still remember a few travellers and geographers
who, at the same time, or a few years after, had something to say of the Pamirs
in their relation to the Kara-korum, and of the Kara-korum System itself. Thus for
instance ROBERT MICHELL says of the Pamirs:

This elevated tract, embracing an area of about 37,000 square miles, links the four
mountain systems of the Hindu-Kush, the Himalayas, the Kuen-Lun, and the Thian-shan;
and long before the Christian era it was considered by the Chinese, as they consider it
still, to be a continuation of the Kuen-Lun (Tsung-Ling or Onion mountains).¹

In an article *Die Pamirfrage* FR. IMMANUEL refers to RICHTHOFEN, FORSYTH
and KOSTENKO who all had stated that the Kizil-yart (*i. e.* Kashgar Range) had a
quite different structure than the rest of the Pamirs.² As a whole the Pamirs be-
longed to the Tian-shan System consisting of ranges stretching east—west, whereas
the Kizil-yart, a meridional system of chains, was to be regarded as a continuation
of the N. W. Himalaya, and more particularly the Dapsang Range. Finally, he adds
that the Kizil-yart with the Tagharma group was, in 1892, very little known.

CURZON, who travelled in the Pamir in 1894, has the following view regarding
the Mus-tagh Range: speaking of the Kilik Pass he says: »This portion of the Hindu
Kush, or rather of that section of the main range, which, extending from this point
eastwards to the Karakoram, is locally designated the Mustagh range. . . .«³

To the discussion about the name Bolor, Belur, Balur, *etc.,* known of old and
so thoroughly dealt with by Sir HENRY YULE,⁴ NEY ELIAS, in 1895, contributed
some new information. MIRZA HAIDAR says:⁵

Balur is an infidel country (Kâfiristân), and most of its inhabitants are mountain-
eers . . . . Baluristân is bounded on the east by the provinces of Kâshgar and Yârkand;
on the north by Badakhshân; on the west by Kâbul and Lumghân; and on the south by
the dependencies of Kâshmir . . . . Its whole extent consists of mountains, valleys, and
defiles, insomuch that one might almost say that in the whole of Baluristân, not one farsâkh
of level ground is to be met with.

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