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English: Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi
Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952 Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ^l. Text Appearing After Image: THE SOURCE OF THE SUTLEJ 183 Professor of Geography in the University there, showedme a collection of Chinese books. One of them, Shui-tao-ti-kang, or The Elements of Hydrography, is a compila-tion of the author Chi Chao Nan in the 26th year of theEmperor Kien Lung, that is, the year 1762, and in thiswork, Book 22, is the following communication concerningthe source of the Sutlej, which Professor Ogawa was kindenough to translate for me literally : ^ The Kang-ka-kiang comes out from Kang-ti-ssu-shan, on thesouth - east of which there stands Lang-chuan-ka-pa-pu-shan( = Langchen-kabab), magnificent like an elephant. The relief isgradually accentuated more and more towards the south-westernfrontiers, and culminates at Kang-ti-ssu-shan (= Kailas). Themountain has a circumference of more than 140 li. On all sidesthe mountain forms precipitous walls more than 1000 feet highabove the surrounding mountains, and accumulated snow seems asif hung on cliffs. Hundreds of springs pour down from the Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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