urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:	edition	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1	writingSession	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.1	p	<foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="deu">In dem ersten <ref target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020421">Briefe</ref> von <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">Hooker</persName>: <lb />Schneelinie <choice> <abbr>nördl.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher</expan> </choice> Abfall des <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName> <lb />(trans <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006">Sutledge</placeName> Region) <choice> <abbr>lat</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 36° Höhe <measure quantity="20000" unit="foot">20000 feet</measure> <lb /> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity="18764" unit="pied_de_roi">18764 <choice> <abbr>par F.</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure>; Südlicher Abfall gegen <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName> und <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Brahmaputra</placeName> <measure quantity="15000" unit="foot">15000 feet</measure> <choice> <abbr>od.</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity="14072" unit="pied_de_roi">14072 <choice> <abbr>par</abbr> <expan>Pariser</expan> </choice> Fuss</measure><supplied cert="high">.</supplied> <lb />Humboldt <ref xml:id="cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490" corresp="#b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175" type="editorialNote">Asie <choice> <abbr>centr.</abbr> <expan>centrale</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>Vol</abbr> <expan>Volume</expan> </choice> III <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 326</ref><note xml:id="b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175" corresp="#cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, III, 326.</note>: <choice> <abbr>nördl Abf.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher Abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity="15600" unit="pied_de_roi">15600 <choice> <abbr>par F</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <lb /><choice> <abbr>südl Abf.</abbr> <expan>südlicher Abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity="12180" unit="pied_de_roi">12180 <choice> <abbr>par F</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert="high">.</supplied></foreign>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.2	p	<foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="deu"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">Hooker</persName> findet jetzt <choice> <abbr>Südl.</abbr> <expan>Südliche</expan> </choice> Schneegrenze im <lb />Meridian vor <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin-ginga</placeName> <measure quantity="14509" unit="foot">14509</measure>, <measure quantity="14100" unit="foot"><choice> <sic>1410</sic> <corr>14100</corr> </choice></measure> und <lb /><measure quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000 feet</measure>.</foreign>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.3	p	<foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="deu">Was <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">Hooker</persName> meine<ref target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_bfh_kf5_jyb"> <foreign xml:lang="eng">glorious a<choice> <orig>p</orig> <reg>pp</reg> </choice>roximation of the hight <lb />of <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chamalari</placeName></foreign></ref> sagt<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> bezieht sich auf mein<supplied cert="high">e</supplied> alte <lb />Behauptung<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> dass der Berg nicht <measure quantity="26000" unit="foot">26000 feet</measure> hoch <lb />sein kann<supplied cert="high">.</supplied> Man hat ihn jezt nur <measure quantity="23929" unit="foot">23929 feet</measure> gefunden <lb />(<ref xml:id="aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a" corresp="#b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7" type="editorialNote">Asie centrale <choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> III <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 282</ref><note xml:id="b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7" corresp="#aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, III, 282.</note>).</foreign>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.4	p	<foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="deu">Man kann schreiben <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain (Kunchin <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> Kinchin) <lb />-junga</placeName><supplied cert="high">.</supplied> In früheren Briefen steht <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin-junga</placeName> und <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">—-<choice> <sic>ju</sic> <corr>gi</corr> </choice>nga</placeName><supplied cert="high">.</supplied></foreign>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.5	p	<foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="deu">Mr <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Waugh</persName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> der zuerst den <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName> maass<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <lb />hat nun au<subst> <del rendition="#ow">h</del> <add place="across">c</add> </subst>h den <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgari</placeName> (sic) <lb />gemessen: er ist eben so hoch <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <foreign xml:lang="eng">a <lb />little higher</foreign> als <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName>. Endresultat <lb />ist<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> dass wenig Unterschied zwischen <lb /><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <lb /><del rendition="#s">Cha</del> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalaghiri</placeName> <lb />und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510">Deodangha</placeName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> der noch <lb />auf keiner Carte steht<supplied cert="high">.</supplied></foreign>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.6	p	<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />Your long & most welcome <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />letter arrived when I was <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>in </sic> <corr type="deleted" /> </choice>travelling <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> & was not received by me <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for many weeks after its arrival <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">here</add>. On <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my return <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">from</del> <add place="superlinear">to</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName> Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />had left the station on account of his <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />health & it was only on my joining <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />him last <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-03" calendar="#gregorian">month</date> in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">Terai</placeName> that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I could talk with him about the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />contents of your letter. In the first place <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />he desires me to thank you with the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />greatest warmth & sincerity for the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kind & prompt attention you have <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">paid</del> <add place="superlinear">given to <lb />our request</add> </subst>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the long letter you have written, the great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />compliment thus paid to us, & above all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the admirable & unexceptionable <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plan you & <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470">Berghaus</persName> have drawn <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />out. You cannot conceive what a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />load of trouble this has taken off our <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hands, nor what a prized memorial it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">ever</add> be, not only to ourselves, but to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the country, for whose benefit the charts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are planned. That this first attempt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to instruct the youth of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> in physical<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />science, & in their own tongue, should <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be grounded on a plan of Baron Hum<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />boldt’s, gives a character to the undertaking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that nothing else could. Believe us <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we never <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">expected</add> you to have paid such attention <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the subject<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & that in doing so you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have done us the happiest service. The <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />work shall go forth as the offspring of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Baron Humboldt<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <reg>’</reg> </choice>s matured experience, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am sure that it will not be felt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />unworthy of you my kind friend, after <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />so many years of usefulness in other <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased">&</del> <add place="intralinear">spheres</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& countries to have your name so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />prominently associated with <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">the </del> <add place="intralinear">an</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />undertaking which under whatever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficulties must succeed in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.7	p	I <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">wrote shortly to <choice> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470">Berghaus</persName>,</hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700"><hi rendition="#u">requesting him</hi> <hi rendition="#uu" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">to delay</hi></hi> till we should <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hear whether the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Govt:</abbr> <expan>Government</expan> </choice> would wish <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to take any part in & propose any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />alterations to the plan<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> This they <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />do not & as nothing it appears to us <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />can be better than the <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">proposal</del> <add place="superlinear">plan</add> </subst> you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470">Berghaus</persName> have made we think <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">it</del> <add place="superlinear">the details</add> </subst> better left wholly to the judgement<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3r" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">of that distinguished & experienced man<supplied cert="high">.</supplied> <lb />The money<note place="inline" hand="#unknown">money</note> is lodged with my <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Father</persName> <lb />to be remitted exactly as you propose <lb />& I shall <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">write by this mail</hi> to <choice> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470"><choice> <abbr>B.</abbr> <expan>Berghaus</expan> </choice></persName> <lb />again.</hi> I wish the sum could be larger<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am sure <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470"><choice> <abbr>B.</abbr> <expan>Berghaus</expan> </choice></persName> deserves that it should, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> is no longer in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />service, & our private means are limited<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.8	p	Regarding your questions as to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heights of the great <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558"><choice> <abbr>Himal</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> Peaks<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">:</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9	p	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1	table	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.1	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">1º</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">by 3 stations <lb />on the plains</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><hi rendition="#u"><measure quantity="28125.7" unit="foot">28125.7</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.2	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="28182.6" unit="foot">28182.6</measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.3	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="28192.5" unit="foot">28192.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.4	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">by 4 stations <lb />within <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514">Sub <choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="28177.4" unit="foot">28177.4</measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.5	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="28183.0" unit="foot">28183.0</measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.6	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="28162.5" unit="foot">28162.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.7	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><hi rendition="#u"><measure quantity="28212.8" unit="foot">28212.8</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Mean <lb /><measure quantity="28176.6" unit="foot">28176.6.</measure></cell>
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.1	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Base measured<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">= <measure quantity="36685.77" unit="foot">36,685.77</measure></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.2	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><choice> <abbr>Dº</abbr> <expan>Ditto</expan> </choice> by △ over 350′</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">= <measure quantity="36685.30" unit="foot">36,685.30</measure></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.3	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><choice> <abbr>Diff.</abbr> <expan>Difference</expan> </choice> Feet <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>English</expan> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#right"><choice> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice><measure quantity="0.47" unit="foot">0.47</measure></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.10	p	2. <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgari</placeName> hast just been remeasured <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Col:</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Waugh</persName>. <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>h</orig> <reg>H</reg> </choice>e believes its<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3v" />elevation to be considerably under<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>r<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />ated</sic> <corr><g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />rated</corr> </choice> – & that it will prove to be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as high if not a very little higher <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.11	p	3. There is another Peak between <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left" hand="#unknown"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688">Gosaingthan</placeName> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688">Dhayabung</placeName> <lb /><ref xml:id="e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6" corresp="#eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81" type="editorialNote">Erdkunde <lb />IV, 8, 31, 32<choice> <orig> </orig> <reg>, </reg> </choice>90</ref><note xml:id="eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81" corresp="#e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/I9TR2WMV">Ritter 1822–1859</bibl>, IV, 8, 31, 32, 90.</note> <lb /> </note><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688">Gossain<note place="inline" hand="#unknown"><metamark>?</metamark></note> than<note place="inline" hand="#unknown"><metamark>?</metamark></note></placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName> – seen both <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> valley & thence called <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/H0005510"><hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">“Deodangha”</hi></placeName> & also from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />This has never been measured <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>till</sic> <corr type="deleted" /> </choice> since my last letter to you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />nor even laid down on charts – <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">but which <choice> <abbr>Col.</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Waugh</persName> considers <lb />as probably a very little higher <lb />than either <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName> or <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgari</placeName>.</hi>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.12	p	4<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> Of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991">Jawari</placeName> I can give you no further <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />information at all. Under any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />circumstances it ranks as a second <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />class Peak in point of mere elevation.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.13	p	To conclude I have given you exactly all I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />know<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> I wish it were more definite <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Col:</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Waugh</persName> looks upon an <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high" reason="illegible">error</unclear> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of a foot in mensuration, as of more <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />importance than I do – & <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><unclear reason="covered">it</unclear></del> <add place="across">he</add> </subst> speaks & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />writes with all the doubts I have given <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you above. He concludes that there <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">can be <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">but little difference</hi> between <lb /><hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgari</placeName>, <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510">Deodhanga</placeName> & <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName></hi> –</hi> that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no other Peaks approach these, that all<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="4r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">II</fw>exceed <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">28000 <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>English</expan> </choice> feet</measure>. – Curious as is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the problem of height<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> the most interesting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to me is the position of the dominant masses; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whether <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s"><unclear reason="covered" cert="medium">of</unclear></del> <add place="superlinear">great in</add> </subst> mean elevation of their mass or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />actual height of a particular spire is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of less consequence. For it is where the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great accumulations of <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Perp</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> Snow are, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the watersheds will head. There <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are between <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Long</abbr> <expan>Longitude</expan> </choice> 80° & 9<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">8</del> <add place="across">0</add> </subst>°. 1<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice>º <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991">Jawar</placeName>. 2º <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/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">Dawalgri</placeName>. 3º <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688">Gossain than</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 4º<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510">Deodhangha</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />5<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kanchain</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 6<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 7<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">s</del> <add place="across">t</add> </subst>wo unnamed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Peaks <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">of</del> not accurately measured in <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/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">Bhothan</placeName>. Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> demonstrates <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the great <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalayan</expan> </choice></placeName> rivers have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />their sources in these, that there came <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the waters of the opposing faces of 2 contiguous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Peaks to converge to meet <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>in the</sic> <corr type="deleted" /> </choice> <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s"><gap reason="covered" quantity="1" unit="chars" /></del> generally <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> & form Deltic basins<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>;</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />By means of these basins we propose to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />divide the whole <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558"><choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> Geographically<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Ethnograph.</abbr> <expan>Ethnographically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Zoolog.</abbr> <expan>Zoologically</expan> </choice> & Botanically. <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for instance is the basin of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">Teesta</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />where East feeders rise from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchan</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& are pushed all to the East, so as almost <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to meet the waters of <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">the</del> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which are pushed West. Further West <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of this you will observe that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />waters from the opposite faces of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />contiguous Peaks meet within the <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/H0020514"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> – here they do not; but<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="4v" />still between the grand <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">South</add> spur 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/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> (<placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName>) which runs from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />its summit to the plains, & the grand <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />South spur of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName> which is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />also continuous to the plains, – all is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />one water shed<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> To explain this I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />send you a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb">small sketch plan</ref> which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will also help to illustrate my recent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />tour in the mountains.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.14	p	Unfortunately the season of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848" calendar="#gregorian">1848</date> was so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bad & the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354">Rajah</persName> so strenuously <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />opposed my visiting <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kunchin</placeName> in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that I was obliged to put off starting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />till the <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-10" calendar="#gregorian">very end of October</date> & take a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />circuitous route in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. Thus I was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />led to two <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> Passes – the Eastermost <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of there in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> & to a fair exami<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />nation of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>NW</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice>, <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>SW.</abbr> <expan>Southwest</expan> </choice> & latterly the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> limits of <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> Snow upon the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great mountain. My chart is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hardly finished & as you may suppose <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the labor of such a work amongst <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mountains wherein known points <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are never visible is great.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.15	p	Starting <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjeeling</placeName> I crossed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName> spur of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & descended to the feeders <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c" corresp="#e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a" type="editorialNote">Mai</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a" corresp="#c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c" type="editorial">Eventuell handelt es sich um den <placeName ref="ed_as4_klb_5xb">Mai Khola</placeName>.</note> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H6668900">Myong</placeName> rivers. Thence I<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="5r" />struck North intending to go by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the ridges to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> before proceeding <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> to the Passes – My food beare<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></del> <add place="across">rs</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />here deserted me<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> they were people <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/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">Bhotan</placeName> & the only ones thought to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be equally fitted for the hot valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice>. I ha<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></del> <add place="across">d</add> </subst> thus to wait patiently <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />till the <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-11" calendar="#gregorian">middle of <choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> on a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="11000" unit="foot">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> when I employed myself in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Met. Observ.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological Observations</expan> </choice> & Botany<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> sending out my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />remaining people to the distant villages <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for coolies. With Enough of them to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />carry my necessaries & leaving the food<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I struck <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> amongst deep Gorges (<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="3000" unit="foot">3000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />above sea) & ascended a very lofty <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />transverse ridge from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName> of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="11000" unit="foot">11000 <lb /><choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> seeking a way to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723">Tambur river</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />along which the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> high road from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020520 https://www.geonames.org/12095475">Ilam</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong</placeName> on the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> frontier runs.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.16	p	Reaching that <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723">river</placeName> when only <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2500" unit="foot">2500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />above the sea I ascended it getting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />foo<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><unclear reason="covered" cert="medium">t</unclear></del> <add place="across">d</add> </subst> as best we could & carrying a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />tropical vegetation up to amongst <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />those spurs of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> which are <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetually</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />snowed. I arrived at the limits of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" subtype="vernacular" key="Oryza sativa">rice</name> cultivation & Hinduism & the<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="5v" />commencement of a temperate zone <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">& Bhothia inhabitants<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></add> on the <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-11-25" calendar="#gregorian">25 <choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> – The change was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sudden from <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3" corresp="#dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67" type="editorialNote"><name type="animal" key="Bubalus">Bubalus</name></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67" corresp="#f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3" type="editorial">Der Asiatische Büffel (Bubalus) ist eine Untergattung der Rinder (<name type="animal">Bovini</name>), im <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019329">Süden</placeName> und Südosten <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578">Asiens</placeName> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" subtype="vernacular" key="Oryza sativa">Rice</name> to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628" corresp="#f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0" type="editorialNote"><name type="animal" key="Bos">Bos</name></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0" corresp="#a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628" type="editorial">Das Eigentliche Rind (Bos) ist eine Untergattung der Rinder (<name type="animal">Bovini</name>), in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578">Asien</placeName> und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890">Nordamerika</placeName> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" subtype="vernacular" key="Mais">corn</name>. Still ascending to <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/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong</placeName> by stupendous gorges, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">third</del> <add place="superlinear">2<hi rendition="#sup">nd</hi></add> </subst> change from <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Bos">Bos</name> to <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Bison">Bison</name> (the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Yak">Yak</name>, whose progenitor is the wild <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Bison {non descript} of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> plan) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was mere gradual. <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong</placeName> is the <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/H0020514">cis <choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalayan</expan> </choice></placeName> commercial entrepot of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Bhotheas<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> Here I was received with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />suspicion & every obstacles to my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />proceeding to the Passes organized, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />more effectually as the season was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very late & food was <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>witheld</orig> <reg>withheld</reg> </choice>. Happily <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I had a dozen Bhotan men still <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with me<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> a set of villains feared by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />all the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt:</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> powers, & by dint of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bullying the authorities & threatening <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to let the Bhotan men loose upon <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />their store houses, I was allowed to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />proceed <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">after</add> 2 days delay to the Pass.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.17	p	<placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong village</placeName> is about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="11000" unit="foot">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Pass<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> 1½ days beyond, <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">&</del> <add place="superlinear">is</add> </subst> about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12" unit="mile">12 miles</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">North</del> <add place="superlinear"><choice> <abbr>WNW</abbr> <expan>West North West</expan> </choice></add> </subst> of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> top & <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="25" unit="mile">25</measure> from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />latter – We reached the summit in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />two days, with much difficulty, the<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">III a</fw>ground deeply covered with <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-10" calendar="#gregorian">October</date> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />snow at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12000" unit="foot">12000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, which at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="13000" unit="foot">13000</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />does not melt till <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-03" calendar="#gregorian">March</date> following. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The summit was <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16700" unit="foot">16700 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, but still <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />3 marches from the Plain of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which is here cut off by 2 lofty <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ranges<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> spurs of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> projecting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>NW.</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice> on that plain of lower elevation <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than my position, but cut off by now <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heavily snowed valleys. I could not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />get one coolie to the top of the pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& at this season to have proceeded to <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">Thibet</placeName> without <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Yak">Yaks</name> would be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />impossible <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible" cert="high">were</unclear> even there no Chinese <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />guard at the foot of the 3.<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">d</hi> range. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />As near as I could ascertain the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">snow line <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">is here <measure quantity="14500" unit="foot">14500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></hi></hi> & from what <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I afterwards saw I still think this is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not underestimated but with such <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a mash as the <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1848-10" calendar="#gregorian">October</date> fall it is quite <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />impossible to speak accurately.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.18	p	This not being the Easternmost Pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />over the range into <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>, & ergo not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the nearest accessible point to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />top in <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> I determined on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my return to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615">Walloong</placeName> to visit the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valley <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> of this whence a loftier pass<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hardly used, leads to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> – Descending <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723">Tambur</placeName> I turned up the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350">Yangma</placeName> <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6v" />valley which expanded into a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />broad treeless gorge full of Lake beds<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The Lake beds are confined by enormous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />dams of rock which have been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />projected across the valley when the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whole was under water. When in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />short the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> plain was accumulating <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />its deposits of Gravel (<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1000" unit="foot">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> thick <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have been measured in <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the waters standing at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="15000" unit="foot">15000</measure> in the <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/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350">Yangma valley</placeName> have left on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flanks of that valley parallel roads <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as beautiful as those of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020504 https://www.geonames.org/2639027">Glen Roy</placeName> in <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/H0010167 https://www.geonames.org/2638360">Scotland</placeName>. Lateral gulleys have floated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rocks into the valley upon Bergs <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bridging it completely across, so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that on the retirement of the waters <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these bridges formed dams. The <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Terraces are on both sides the valley <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />above the Lake beds<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> are perfectly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parallel<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> rise in steppes along the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />steep <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> faces<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & are every where <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />strewed with enormous blocks of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rock – In these lateral glacial valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />small patches of glacial Ice now <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />alone are found<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & the gravel & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rubbish are disposed by them, as the<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7r" />enormous blocks (<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20" unit="yard">20 yds</measure> long) were by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the greater Ice action in past eras.
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.19.1	figure	<figDesc xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Schematische Zeichnung des Flußtales des <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H4126024 https://www.geonames.org/12534350">Yangma Khola</placeName>, des<placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020877 https://www.geonames.org/8005421">Yangma</placeName> sowie der angrenzenden Hügel und Terrassen, von <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">Joseph Dalton Hooker</persName> in Tinte.</figDesc>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.20	p	From this we descended to the <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/H0020876">Yalloong</placeName> valley intending to go up it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876">Yalloong</placeName> village & thence cross <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the great Southern Spur of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(called <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName>) into <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />To our distress for we had but one <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#mMM" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">day’s more food <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">the <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876">village</placeName></hi> was <lb />found <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">deeply</hi> buried <hi rendition="#u" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700">in Snow</hi></hi> & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />inhabitants <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">had</add> fled to the nearest <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />villages in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. To cross <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683">Singalelah</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from hence, where it could not be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />less than <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> was impossible & we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hence<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> had no choice but to follow<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="8v" />the valley down <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.W.</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice> & seek the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />first villages – which we reached <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the thir<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" quantity="2" unit="chars" /></del> <add place="across">d</add> </subst> day in great distress.
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.1	item	I.º the <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">Thibet</placeName>an proper – transnivean of many tribes –
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.1	item	1. Salt Traders of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName>. <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear" hand="#author"><measure quantity="7000" unit="foot">7</measure>–<measure quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></add>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.2	item	2. <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> Bhotheas agriculturists never living above <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased"><measure quantity="1000" unit="foot">7000</measure></del> <add place="intralinear"><measure quantity="6000" unit="foot">6000</measure></add> </subst> –
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.3	item	3.<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>º</orig> <reg /> </choice> Lamas renewed from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />take church preferment in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName>.
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.1	item	1. Lepchas<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> a charming<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> simple & attractive <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />people who live from <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="3000" unit="foot">3</measure>–<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="6000" unit="foot">6000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> never inhabit the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />same spot long<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> are idler than Bhotheas<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> worship <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Demons & talk a very peculiar dialect<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig> –</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.2	item	<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> &</add> 3<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">& 4</del> the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c" corresp="#e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59" type="editorialNote">Cove<unclear reason="illegible" cert="medium">tis</unclear></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59" corresp="#e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c" type="editorial">In den veröffentlichten Übersetzungen dieses Briefes finden sich die Bezeichnungen „Covehs“ (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/BFP7VBMG">Berghaus 1850c</bibl>, S. 5) und „Covetes“ (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/KFTMNWBQ">Hooker, J. D. 1851a</bibl>, S. 248). In seinen „Himalayan Journals“ (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/2KMISEKW">Hooker, J. D. 1854</bibl>) erwähnte J.D. Hooker diese Stämme nicht, nannte sie jedoch in einem undatierten Manuskript <ref target="https://jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh/asset/3714">(Kew 2022, JDH/1/10 f. 180)</ref>. <lb />Auch bei der Nennung der folgenden Stämme weichen die Drucke ab: „Huioos“ und „Geroings“ (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/BFP7VBMG">Berghaus 1850c</bibl>, S. 5) sowie „Meehi“ und „Gerrings“ (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/KFTMNWBQ">Hooker, J. D. 1851a</bibl>, S. 248).</note> & Mechi of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">Terai</placeName> who brave the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Fever.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.3	item	4<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible" cert="medium">Huivos</unclear><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg type="deleted" /> </choice>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.4	item	5<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> Geroongs
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.5	item	6<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> Murmis
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.6	item	7<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> & Limbos
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.23	p	As the first <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">English</placeName> travellers we were received with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great kindness by the jolly monks & friars who<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="9v" />gave us all their poor information on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />history of their country. Their books & institutions <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />alas their libraries & records had all been burned <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the Ghorkha wars & the garbled accounts they <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are now drawing up will be in future the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />only records of the <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">early</add> migrations of the Bhodist <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />priests into <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName>, with the<del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">y</del> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H3660026">Rajah</persName> who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the simple Lepchas<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> desired from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737">Lhassa</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.24	p	<persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Campbell</persName> had hence to go <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">South</add> back to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& I being very anxious to visit the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> face 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/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> proceeded North. After many days <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of toilsome journeys through the most impracti<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />cable country I camped at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flanks of the Great <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> upon a bold bare <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />spur covered with snow & every where <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />abounding in evidences of great glacial floods <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />having once washed all over it. The ground <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was frozen <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16" unit="zoll_englisch">16 inches</measure> but a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice> sunk <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2" unit="foot">2 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s"><add place="superlinear"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></add></del> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="6" unit="zoll_englisch">6. inches</measure> stood considerably higher –. I hoped <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to have spent a week here but after 3 <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />days of observations the snow fell so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heavily that we were obliged to retreat <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with precipitancy & in the middle of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-01" calendar="#gregorian">January</date> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />after 2 days of great exertion descended to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys at the foot of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice>. Thence returning <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>difft.</abbr> <expan>different</expan> </choice> route I visited the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H5217773">sacred Lake of <lb />Sikkim</placeName> & witnessed the simple worship of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Bhudhists<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> Thence to the oldest convents <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> where I staid a few days with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the monks<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & finally returned to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Darjiling</placeName>.
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.25.1	figure	<figDesc xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">Schematische Zeichnung der Region <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">Sikkim</placeName> von den Ebenen <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">Indien</placeName>s bis zum <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName> und den Grenzen zu <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">Nepal</placeName> und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">Bhutan</placeName>, mit verschiedenen Berggipfeln, Höhenangaben, Flüssen und Pässen, von <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">Joseph Dalton Hooker</persName> in Tinte. Die Reiseroute Hookers ist in roter Tinte, die Linie des ewigen Schnees in blauer Tinte hervorgehoben.<anchor type="target" xml:id="stop_lmn_zd5_jyb" /></figDesc>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.26	p	In Geology I have been able to do a good <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />deal. The <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">and</del> <add place="intralinear">display</add> </subst> of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">granite</name> forming <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the tops of all the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> above <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />stupendous features of its ou<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">t</add>bursts along <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the main range & at every flank & spur <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/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> are wonderfully fine. <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><choice> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice></add> C<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">u</del> <add place="across">l</add> </subst>iffs of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />stratified rock <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="4000" unit="foot">4000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in measured height<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />baked red & distorted <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">like shot silk the</del> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to a <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">e</del> <add place="across">u</add> </subst>nparallel<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig><subst> <del rendition="#ow">e</del> <add place="across">l</add> </subst></orig> <reg /> </choice>ed degree are traversed with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />gigantic veins of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Quarz">Quartz</name>ose <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Porphyr">Porphyry</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Eurit">Eurite</name> &c. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Detached <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><choice> <abbr>Mt</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice></add> masses of the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Glimmerschiefer">mica schists</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Gneis">Gneiss</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are tossed up to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & all is on a scale <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of confusion & grandeur that defies even <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />recollection. I saw no <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein">Limestone</name> – no fossils –<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="11r" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Glimmer">Mica</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Tonschiefer">clay-slate</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Gneis">Gneiss</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granite</name>, here compose <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the whole <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558"><choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> with the various clays often <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with 30 <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible">per</unclear>cent of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral">alumina</name> & the various endogenous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rocks varying in composition <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="low" reason="illegible">stick</unclear> through the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />exogenous in the grandest scale. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Feldspat">Feldspar</name> abounds <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />disproportionally in the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granite</name> which contains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I think both Soda & Potash. <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Erz">Ores</name> are <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>rariss</abbr> <expan>rarissime</expan> </choice><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> a little <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Zinn">Tin</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Eisen">Iron</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Chrom">Chrome</name> & much <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Mangan"><choice> <sic>mangamese</sic> <corr>mangenese</corr> </choice></name>. I found no <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">fine</hi> minerals<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> no volcanic matter – one warm <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />spring of pure water – I have prepared 3 cross <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sections of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558"><choice> <abbr>Himal</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> from the crest of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the plains illustrated Physically<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> Geologically<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Meteorolog.</abbr> <expan>Meteorologically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> Botanically<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig> & <choice> <abbr>Geolog</abbr> <expan>Geologically</expan> </choice></orig> <reg /> </choice>. In Magnetics & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Electricity I have done nothing. My map is very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />accurate with bearings & <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Astron. obs.</abbr> <expan>Astronomical observations</expan> </choice> for Latitude – <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />watches cannot go well in such countries.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.27	p	On my return after packing my collections I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />went to the foot of the hills<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> met my dear friend <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/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> & we together explored the torrid valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">Terai</placeName> Botanically & Geologically keeping <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />up a <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> register & tracing the Evidences of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water terraces & steppes which I now carry from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the plains up to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. There I found <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kohle">coal</name> (useless) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& faint traces of the tertiary deposits of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Graphit">Plumbago</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Eisen">Iron</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalk">Lime</name> in deposits from springs. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />The proofs of the gradual retirement of the waters <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the foot of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> are beautiful<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> I traced <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />them to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="30" unit="mile">30 miles</measure> distant from the hills.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.28	p	Now I am preparing for another trip to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Snows, the <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354">Rajah</persName>’s tacit opposition & the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rains will be obstacles, but I know & like <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the people & could I but get coolies who dared <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to cross the Passes even 4 I would still measure <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> plain at the foot of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">Kinchin</placeName> but<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="11v" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u" hand="#unknown">Chinese vigilance</hi> is insuperable, the people though <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />good & courageous in all other respects dread their <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/H0018354">Rajah</persName> & the Chinese, the former sells their family <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to Bhothan slavery on the slightest pretense & I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />cannot get independent people but Bhothan <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />men, who fear no God nor man nor <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>JD</abbr> <expan>Joseph Dalton</expan> </choice> Hooker <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which is the worst part of it<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & with whom <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I cannot get on. <gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible" unit="words" quantity="1" /> I take 4 hoping to cross the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />passes & have offered all the bribes my poor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />purse can command. I shall be some Months <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />away & hope to camp high up on the passes to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />take Simultaneous <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Obs.</abbr> <expan>Observations</expan> </choice> with <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">Dorjiling</placeName> <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/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">Calcutta</placeName>. – I send you a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb">sketch plan</ref> with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>approx.</abbr> <expan>approximate</expan> </choice> position of the Passes I seek<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">Lachen</placeName> <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/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">Lachoon</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> the former is <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">said</hi> to debouche on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plain of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName>, with <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">no descent</hi>. <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="1" /></del> <add place="across">H</add> </subst>ow very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hard it will be if I cannot get through! – How <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />curious is the reentrant <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>∠</orig> <reg>angle</reg> </choice> that po<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="3" /></del> <add place="across">liti</add> </subst>cal <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />makes here – still the water shed is in parallel <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/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – Food in these journeys is a great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />desideratum, there is no personal danger. For <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Bhotheas bully & oppose tacitly & will not fight.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.29	p	<persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">Thomson</persName> has returned to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H5458460 https://www.geonames.org/1271883">Ferozepore</placeName> ruined in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />health I fear – my own age & brothers as we are I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />deeply deplore this – his sufferings have been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great & the later ones added to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361">Affghan</placeName> impri<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />sonment 8 years ago where he suffered with the worst<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have told on his <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">once</add> glorious constitution – he is en route <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017393 https://www.geonames.org/1256237">Simlah</placeName> for his health & will join me in <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1849-11" calendar="#gregorian">November</date>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I have given up all Idea of Upper <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> it is quite <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />impracti<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">a</del> <add place="across">c</add> </subst>able<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – An explorer sent thither by <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />just been murdered in cold blood & the climate is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very unhealthy. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">Thomson</persName> has been to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791">Karakoram</placeName> Pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(a little too far <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> in your map.) – about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> he <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for 3 days traversed a plain of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="17500" unit="foot">17500 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> (same as <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008047">Pamir</placeName>) <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& probably a continuation of the great <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b" corresp="#e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15" type="editorialNote">nœud</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15" corresp="#ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b" type="editorial">Noeuds (frz.): Knoten. Gemeint sind die Berggipfel.</note> at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792">Koenlun</placeName> <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/H0005299">Belor</placeName>.<anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="target" xml:id="start_bfh_kf5_jyb" />What a glorious approximation is your height of <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">Chumalari</placeName><anchor type="target" xml:id="stop_bfh_kf5_jyb" />to <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">Waugh</persName>’s measurements.</add>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.30	p	<add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left">This has been a sad season in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> – I have lost <choice> <sic>&</sic> <corr>an</corr> </choice> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0515023">Uncle</persName> – <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020850 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1210970546">Williams</persName> of the <choice> <abbr>Geol.</abbr> <expan>Geological</expan> </choice> Survey <lb />with whom I travelled 3 months both dead of Fever – <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0014045 http://d-nb.info/gnd/102766029">McLelland</persName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> who went to<pb n="11r-a" />carry on the survey<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> took fever & had to break up the camp. My early friend <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0115971 https://d-nb.info/gnd/117673331">Gardner</persName> <lb />at <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603">Ceylon</placeName> a first rate Naturalist <del rendition="#s">is</del> <subst> <del rendition="#ow">dead</del> <add place="across">died</add> </subst> last <date when="1849-03" calendar="#gregorian">month</date><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & poor <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">Thomson</persName>’s constitution <lb />is shattered. Hence I write in low spirits –</add>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.31	p	<gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="insignificant" /><address xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <addrLine>To</addrLine> <addrLine>The Baron von Humboldt</addrLine> <addrLine>&c &c &c</addrLine> <addrLine><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458">Potsdam</placeName>.</addrLine> <addrLine><hi rendition="#uu"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159">Berlin</placeName>.</hi> </addrLine> </address>
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