National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

This is the highest mountain of our globe as yet measured. The drawing is taken from a mountain south-east of Tibbet at a height of 1000 Engl. Feet. As a mighty massed it forms the prominent group of this view, though surrounded by some peaks of a height exceeding 20000 Engl. Feet. From its proximity to the tropics it stands out as represented here at midday as moreover a most conspicuous object to the full rays of a nearly vertical sun, herein exhibiting a highly characteristic feature, and presenting at the same time a most marked difference from the appearance of the Alpine peaks in higher latitudes. A very extensive glacier of which the upper cirque de neive is seen on the left, descends to the south-west. The name given to Gaurisankar by the Tibetans, and by which it is generally known to the natives in the northernmost parts of Nepal is Chomolungma.