I believe that the above is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016116 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055397353"><choice> <abbr>Capt</abbr> <expan>Captain</expan> </choice> Strachey</persName>’s view entirely, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but he does not express <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />himself well, he perfectly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />understands the difference <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between the case of a <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">Pass</hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />or small ridge & the whole <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mountain mass, <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left">but he does not make this difference clear<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></add>: <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">but</del> <add place="intralinear"><subst> <del rendition="#ow">l</del> <add place="across">L</add> </subst>ike</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f4f1d2fd-aaac-4bfe-b1d2-fdaaac8bfe69" corresp="#e488db9a-bffc-4d83-88db-9abffced83c6" type="editorialNote">Norwegian Alpes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e488db9a-bffc-4d83-88db-9abffced83c6" corresp="#f4f1d2fd-aaac-4bfe-b1d2-fdaaac8bfe69" type="editorial">Vermutlich ist das <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H3631467 https://www.geonames.org/3150042">Skandinavische Gebirge</placeName>, die Skanden, gemeint. Sie wurden früher auch als Skandinavische Alpen bezeichnet.</note>, there is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no prominent crest or ridge <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the whole mass, the water<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />shed is nowhere a conspicuous<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="38v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">8</fw>feature. 2) The word plateau <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />can only be applied to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the sense of a uniformly very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />lofty country – & <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">that</del> <add place="intralinear">it</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should always be coupled <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with the words „mountainous“ <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& „rocky“ or rugged. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H4806588 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1097217914"><choice> <abbr>Capt R</abbr> <expan>Captain Richard</expan> </choice> <lb />Strachey</persName> who saw <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">only</hi> that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />part around <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">Mansarovar</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />dwells too much on the level <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">no</del> <add place="intralinear">surface</add> </subst> of that part: the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />greater part of the country is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no doubt as rugged & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />impracticable as possible. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Thomson</persName> who has seen <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />more of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> than any one <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />considers <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> even more <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rugged than the Indian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />face of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName>, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts I saw were perhaps not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />so rugged as the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007">Indus</placeName> &<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="39r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">9</fw><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020681 https://www.geonames.org/1256406">Shayuk</placeName> valleys, but were <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not plains in any sense. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I do not believe that ⅒<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">th</hi> or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />1/50 of the surface of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at all to be compared with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the table land around the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="b6d02072-5dd0-44fd-9020-725dd034fdaf" corresp="#dda2ff91-ff2e-4441-a2ff-91ff2e3441b7" type="editorialNote"><lb />sacred Lakes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="dda2ff91-ff2e-4441-a2ff-91ff2e3441b7" corresp="#b6d02072-5dd0-44fd-9020-725dd034fdaf" type="editorial">Die drei wichtigsten heiligen Seen in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> sind <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">Manasarovar</placeName>, <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020611 https://www.geonames.org/1280502">Namtso</placeName> und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H5574706 https://www.geonames.org/1279634">Yamdrok</placeName>.</note>. Level portions of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a limited extent occur in all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts but they are very seldom <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2" unit="mile">2</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="4" unit="mile">4 miles</measure> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">wide</add> at the broadest, they <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">are larger because they border rivers but they</add> <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">&</del> are hemmed in by mountains. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />You may safely say that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />19/20 of <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s"><gap reason="illegible" unit="chars" quantity="1" /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName></del> <add place="intralinear"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName></add> </subst> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e702512f-a776-4639-8251-2fa776963988" corresp="#f2462094-3d9a-40db-8620-943d9a80db9e" type="editorialNote"><foreign xml:lang="fra">„herissés de Montagnes“</foreign></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f2462094-3d9a-40db-8620-943d9a80db9e" corresp="#e702512f-a776-4639-8251-2fa776963988" type="editorial">Herissé de montagnes (frz.): „voller Berge“.</note> – As <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regards the mean height of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> I do not think it can be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />approximately estimated. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />We may guess the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007">Indus</placeName> at <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />its source to be <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot"><subst> <del rendition="#ow">2</del> <add place="across">1</add> </subst>8000</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20000</measure> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010861 https://www.geonames.org/1178338">Gilgit</placeName> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="6000" unit="foot">6000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark> Also that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">Br</del> <add place="intralinear"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampu</placeName></add> </subst> at its source is<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="39v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">10.</fw><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20,000 feet</measure>, at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715">Jigatzi</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12000" unit="foot">12000</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark>, at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737">Lhassa</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10000" unit="foot">10000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark> & where the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Dihong</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />enters the wood<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">g</del> <add place="across">e</add> </subst>d districts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName>, i<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> e. leaves <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is perhaps <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="8000" unit="foot">8000 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we may also guess that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mean height of all the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">watersheds</hi> is <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="2814" unit="toise">2814</measure> – <measure quantity="2970" unit="toise">2970 toises</measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& from these data we may <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />compute roughly a mean <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />height for <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName>, but it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will not convey much further <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />information.