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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.1	p	i had the great pleasure <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of receiving your most kind <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& flattering letter of last <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1854-07" calendar="#gregorian">july</date>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />through mr <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015557 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119074117"><choice> <abbr><subst> <del rendition="#ow">a</del> <add place="across">h</add> </subst>.</abbr> <expan>hermann</expan> </choice> schlagintweit</persname>; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the middle of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1854-08" calendar="#gregorian">august</date>; & can <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />truly say that i have had <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />none that gave me so much <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />real pleasure & satisfaction <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the opinion it expresses of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">of</del> my <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d016f85f-416c-4548-96f8-5f416ca54807" corresp="#daedd2df-c33c-4f57-add2-dfc33c6f577e" type="editorialnote">himalayan journals</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="daedd2df-c33c-4f57-add2-dfc33c6f577e" corresp="#d016f85f-416c-4548-96f8-5f416ca54807" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/2kmisekw">hooker, j. d. 1854.</bibl></note>. i <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have felt so much the influence <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of your career, from my childhood, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& owe so much to all you have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />done for science generally & for <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />myself in particular that i do <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />feel it a great privilege to have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been permitted to write a book <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that has specially interested<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="35v" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">2</fw>you. some of my friends have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />too, &<del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#erased">s</del> mr <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012148 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118523813">darwin</persname> & <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">brown</persname> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h6439677 https://d-nb.info/gnd/116994258">horner</persname></add> in particular have so constantly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />expressed a hope that my book <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />would afford you some little <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />gratification that i have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />considered you to be more <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />identified with its success than <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any one but my-self. mr <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/h0012148 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118523813">darwin</persname> to whom i have shewn <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />what you say tells me that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i may now indeed be proud <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />&<del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#erased">s</del> satisfied<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.2	p	and now to answer your <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />questions; i am extremely sorry <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the spelling adopted in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the map of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>, which was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mr <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001901 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119408953">petermann</persname><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">’</supplied>s doing, he had <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the sheets of letterpress sent him <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as the work proceeded on purpose <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to adopt the same spelling, but<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="36r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">3</fw>did not do so after all. for <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />many reasons i should have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />preferred the classical mode <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of spelling, but unfortunately <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is not prevalent, either 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/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename> or in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">england</placename> & the indian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>goverment</sic> <corr>government</corr> </choice> have taken no <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />means of bettering the nomen<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />clature, either by suggesting a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />code or following a uniform <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plan themselves.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.3	p	with regard to the questions <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you put – 1. i believe that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as a general rule the snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />lies longest & is deepest on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />north side of each individual <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />pass or ridge, when these <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are small & narrow, because <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />an ordinary ridge <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">l</del> <add place="across">h</add> </subst>owever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />lofty is not so <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">con</del> <add place="intralinear">important</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a physical feature amongst the<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="36v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">4</fw>mass of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename>, <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">as</add> to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />produce much difference in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the snow fall, & radiation &c <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of its two opposite slopes: but <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />if you regard one of the great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mountains as a ridge & look <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at its opposite slopes you will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />find the snow fall lower & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />deeper on the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">south</hi> flank. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />thus on <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390">donkia</placename> pass, which is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a mere ridge of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18500" unit="foot">18500 feet</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amongst a mass of mountains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20,000</measure>–<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="25000" unit="foot">25000</measure>, there is snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the north & none on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />south side. – on <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h5641964">kinchinjhow</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the snow line is at about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16500" unit="foot">16500</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the south side & <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18500" unit="foot">18500</measure> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />north, but on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the south slope of <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kinchinjinga</placename></add><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />advances far into the wet<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="37r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">5</fw> climate of <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> the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />snow line is <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">at</add> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000</measure>, & on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />north<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> which advances far <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename>, <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">is</add> at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.4	p	in all these cases the confusion <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />arises from the different view <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />taken of what is to be called <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />north & south slope. if we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regard that part of the chain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename> & plain <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/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename> as <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename>, we may <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />confidently say that the snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the south slope is on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />average at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 feet</measure>, & on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the north slope at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>t</orig> <reg>t</reg> </choice>hat is to say, that in travelling <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />south from the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">& ascending</add> you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will hardly meet with any <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />snow below <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure> except <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the north slopes of ridges that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rise above that; whereas <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">that</del><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="37v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">6</fw>if you advance north, ascending <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the plains of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>, you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will meet <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">with</add> plenty at <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16000 <lb />feet</measure>. it is further to be borne <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in mind that by keeping in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any of the large river valleys <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you may cross from the plains <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/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename> to the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />without crossing any snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at all – with regard to the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>northwest</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename>, the chains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are there so inextricably <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />complicated & all of so <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform a mean height <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the amount & duration <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of perpetual snow is pretty <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform in most parts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that are beyond <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">or north of</add> the southern<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="38r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">7</fw> chains. there is nowhere <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/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename> a definite <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />uniform <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">snow line</hi> such as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />there appears to be on the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002454">andes</placename>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the breadth of the mass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is much greater & it is every<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />where cut up by meridional <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />tortuous valleys.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.5	p	i believe that the above is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016116 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055397353"><choice> <abbr>capt</abbr> <expan>captain</expan> </choice> strachey</persname>’s view entirely, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but he does not express <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />himself well, he perfectly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />understands the difference <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between the case of a <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">pass</hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />or small ridge & the whole <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mountain mass, <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="left">but he does not make this difference clear<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></add>: <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">but</del> <add place="intralinear"><subst> <del rendition="#ow">l</del> <add place="across">l</add> </subst>ike</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f4f1d2fd-aaac-4bfe-b1d2-fdaaac8bfe69" corresp="#e488db9a-bffc-4d83-88db-9abffced83c6" type="editorialnote">norwegian alpes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e488db9a-bffc-4d83-88db-9abffced83c6" corresp="#f4f1d2fd-aaac-4bfe-b1d2-fdaaac8bfe69" type="editorial">vermutlich ist das <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h3631467 https://www.geonames.org/3150042">skandinavische gebirge</placename>, die skanden, gemeint. sie wurden früher auch als skandinavische alpen bezeichnet.</note>, there is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no prominent crest or ridge <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the whole mass, the water<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />shed is nowhere a conspicuous<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="38v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">8</fw>feature. 2) the word plateau <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />can only be applied to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the sense of a uniformly very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />lofty country – & <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">that</del> <add place="intralinear">it</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should always be coupled <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with the words „mountainous“ <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& „rocky“ or rugged. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h4806588 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1097217914"><choice> <abbr>capt r</abbr> <expan>captain richard</expan> </choice> <lb />strachey</persname> who saw <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">only</hi> that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />part around <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">mansarovar</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />dwells too much on the level <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">no</del> <add place="intralinear">surface</add> </subst> of that part: the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />greater part of the country is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no doubt as rugged & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />impracticable as possible. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">d<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> thomson</persname> who has seen <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />more of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> than any one <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />considers <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> even more <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rugged than the indian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />face of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename>, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts i saw were perhaps not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />so rugged as the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007">indus</placename> &<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="39r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">9</fw><placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020681 https://www.geonames.org/1256406">shayuk</placename> valleys, but were <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not plains in any sense. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i do not believe that ⅒<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#sup">th</hi> or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />1/50 of the surface of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at all to be compared with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the table land around the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="b6d02072-5dd0-44fd-9020-725dd034fdaf" corresp="#dda2ff91-ff2e-4441-a2ff-91ff2e3441b7" type="editorialnote"><lb />sacred lakes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="dda2ff91-ff2e-4441-a2ff-91ff2e3441b7" corresp="#b6d02072-5dd0-44fd-9020-725dd034fdaf" type="editorial">die drei wichtigsten heiligen seen in <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> sind <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">manasarovar</placename>, <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020611 https://www.geonames.org/1280502">namtso</placename> und <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h5574706 https://www.geonames.org/1279634">yamdrok</placename>.</note>. level portions of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a limited extent occur in all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts but they are very seldom <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2" unit="mile">2</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="4" unit="mile">4 miles</measure> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">wide</add> at the broadest, they <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">are larger because they border rivers but they</add> <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">&</del> are hemmed in by mountains. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you may safely say that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />19/20 of <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s"><gap reason="illegible" unit="chars" quantity="1" /> <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">thibet</placename></del> <add place="intralinear"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename></add> </subst> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e702512f-a776-4639-8251-2fa776963988" corresp="#f2462094-3d9a-40db-8620-943d9a80db9e" type="editorialnote"><foreign xml:lang="fra">„herissés de montagnes“</foreign></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f2462094-3d9a-40db-8620-943d9a80db9e" corresp="#e702512f-a776-4639-8251-2fa776963988" type="editorial">herissé de montagnes (frz.): „voller berge“.</note> – as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regards the mean height of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> i do not think it can be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />approximately estimated. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we may guess the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007">indus</placename> at <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />its source to be <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot"><subst> <del rendition="#ow">2</del> <add place="across">1</add> </subst>8000</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20000</measure> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010861 https://www.geonames.org/1178338">gilgit</placename> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="6000" unit="foot">6000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark> also that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">br</del> <add place="intralinear"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename></add> </subst> at its source is<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="39v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">10.</fw><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20,000 feet</measure>, at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715">jigatzi</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12000" unit="foot">12000</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark>, at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737">lhassa</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10000" unit="foot">10000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark> & where the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dihong</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />enters the wood<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">g</del> <add place="across">e</add> </subst>d districts <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename>, i<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> e. leaves <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is perhaps <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="8000" unit="foot">8000 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we may also guess that the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />mean height of all the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">watersheds</hi> is <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="2814" unit="toise">2814</measure> – <measure quantity="2970" unit="toise">2970 toises</measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& from these data we may <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />compute roughly a mean <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />height for <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename>, but it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will not convey much further <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />information.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.6	p	lastly; as to the mean height <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the plains <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">or level surfaces</add> that do occur <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/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename>, i am not aware <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that they affect any particular <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />level. that around <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">mansa<g ref="#typohyphen" /><pb n="40r" break="no" /> <fw type="folnum">11</fw>rowar</placename>, & which is the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />head of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006">sutlej</placename> valley, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />slopes gradually down that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />river, from <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="15500" unit="foot">15500</measure> to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12000" unit="foot">12000</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">i believe</hi><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> (but speak rather <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />at random<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> the loftiest <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />part that approaches to a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />level of which we know <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />any thing, is probably that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />crossed by <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252">turner</persname>, & which, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">(</del>though far from <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">level</hi>, is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">rugged</hi><del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">)</del> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">& it</add> must be about <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="2500" unit="toise">2500</measure> – <measure quantity="2657" unit="toise">2657 <choice> <abbr>t.</abbr> <expan>toises</expan> </choice></measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="16000" unit="foot">16</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="17000" unit="foot">17000 feet</measure>.<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="mbottom" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><metamark />ich ehemals <measure quantity="1800" unit="toise">1800 <choice> <abbr>t.</abbr> <expan>toises</expan> </choice></measure> = <measure quantity="11509" unit="foot">11509 feet</measure></note> there are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />probably equally extensive <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />level portions at <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="2814" unit="toise">2814</measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="18000" unit="foot">18000</measure> to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="2970" unit="toise">2970 toises</measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="19000" unit="foot">19000 feet</measure>, <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">to the north</hi> 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/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615">mansarowar</placename>, & there are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flats at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715">jigatzi</placename><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><subst> <del rendition="#s"><measure quantity="1857" unit="toise">1857</measure></del> <add place="intralinear"><measure quantity="1875" unit="toise">1875</measure></add> </subst> – <measure quantity="2188" unit="toise">2188 toises</measure></note>(<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="12000" unit="foot">12</measure> – <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14000</measure>) <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/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737">lhassa</placename> <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><measure quantity="1563" unit="toise">1563 <choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>toises</expan> </choice></measure></note><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10000" unit="foot">10000</measure><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">?</metamark> & others i <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />believe still lower down<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="40v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">12</fw>the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename>: there are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />also flats around the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="eff42acb-fcd3-4233-b42a-cbfcd3023383" corresp="#d30aef93-7cfe-4103-8aef-937cfe9103be" type="editorialnote">salt <lb />lakes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d30aef93-7cfe-4103-8aef-937cfe9103be" corresp="#eff42acb-fcd3-4233-b42a-cbfcd3023383" type="editorial">zu den salzseen nördlich des <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">yarlung tsangpo</placename> und von <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715">xigazê</placename> gehören u.a. der <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020611 https://www.geonames.org/1280502">namtso</placename>, <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h6223956 https://www.geonames.org/1279983">serling tsho</placename> und <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h6085889 https://www.geonames.org/1279916">tangra yumco</placename>.</note>, north of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampu</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but we know nothing at all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />definitely of 19/20 of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename>, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i believe that 9/10 of the country <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/addressee">has never been traversed by <lb />man, being as <choice> <sic>inaccessable</sic> <corr>inaccessible</corr> </choice> <lb />as the <ref xml:id="b054f7af-77c6-4932-94f7-af77c6993281" corresp="#adcab939-0940-46a1-8ab9-39094026a16e" type="editorialnote">polar seas</ref><note xml:id="adcab939-0940-46a1-8ab9-39094026a16e" corresp="#b054f7af-77c6-4932-94f7-af77c6993281" type="editorial">hiermit ist sowohl der <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017285 https://www.geonames.org/2960860">arktische</placename> als auch der <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020731 https://www.geonames.org/4036776">antarktische ozean</placename> gemeint.</note></hi> & quite as <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />barren. after all i believe that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the average distance „as the crow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flies“ performed <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">i</del> <add place="across">o</add> </subst>n the routes, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is the best criterion of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amount of level country crossed, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& we may judge from all our <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />materials that so far as this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is concerned, <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">tibet</placename> is one of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />most impracticable countries <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the world.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.7	p	i need not say that i shall be<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="41r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">13</fw>both proud & pleased to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />give you any further information <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in my power.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.8	p	i am now almost wholly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />taken up with botany, chiefly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indian & australian & hope soon <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to commence the distribution of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the indian collections of which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a splendid set goes to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159">berlin</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />containing every-thing of which<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">d<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> thomson</persname> & i have duplicates: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we are also about to publish<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">a</del> <add place="across">the</add> </subst> first volume of the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d7bb5001-f0a4-49d9-bb50-01f0a4d9d9dc" corresp="#bdf06766-cd06-485b-b067-66cd06e85b88" type="editorialnote">flora <lb />indica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="bdf06766-cd06-485b-b067-66cd06e85b88" corresp="#d7bb5001-f0a4-49d9-bb50-01f0a4d9d9dc" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/vnwtinb4">hooker, j. d./thomson 1855.</bibl></note>, with a very large <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />introduct<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">ion</del> <add place="across">ory</add> </subst> essay on the history <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of indian botany, botanical<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& physical geography of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& the division of the country <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into botanical provinces, & of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flora into its constituent<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="41v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">14</fw>elements. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">d<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> thomson</persname> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />returns to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename> in <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1855-02" calendar="#gregorian">february</date> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& takes charge of the <orgname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020399 https://d-nb.info/gnd/2020025-0">botanical <lb />gardens</orgname> at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">calcutta</placename>, thus <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />becoming the successor of<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/h0001103 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117598275">roxburgh</persname>, <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006224 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117126314">wallich</persname>, & <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="intralinear">of</add> <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020756 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117498246">falconer</persname>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />who returns early next year <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/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">england</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.9	p	my <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x">father</persname> is well & desires <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />his affectionate remembrances <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to you; <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">brown</persname> is in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010167 https://www.geonames.org/2638360">scotland</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& has been there for a month, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />he will not return at present <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i hope, for the cholera has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been raging at his very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />door in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743">london</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.10	p	<persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012148 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118523813">darwin</persname> is in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000398">kent</placename> still & in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as good health as he ever<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="42r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">15</fw>enjoys, he has just finished <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />his <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a9b81660-c09e-44be-b816-60c09eb4be61" corresp="#e0503fed-aa10-4705-903f-edaa10f70568" type="editorialnote">work on cirrhipedes</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e0503fed-aa10-4705-903f-edaa10f70568" corresp="#a9b81660-c09e-44be-b816-60c09eb4be61" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/htzp7pqt">darwin 1854.</bibl></note>, which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is one of the best zoological <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />works ever produced in this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />country, & coupled with his <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />journals & geological works, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />raises him very high indeed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in european estimation.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H7863397:1.11	p	<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">we all feel the <ref xml:id="aed19008-8bde-4e48-9190-088bde7e486f" corresp="#fc181672-d6c7-4700-9816-72d6c7d700b4" type="editorialnote">departure of <lb /><persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003776 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118668005">m. bunsen</persname></ref><note xml:id="fc181672-d6c7-4700-9816-72d6c7d700b4" corresp="#aed19008-8bde-4e48-9190-088bde7e486f" type="editorial"><persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003776 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118668005">christian karl josias von bunsen</persname> war seit <date when="1842" calendar="#gregorian">1842</date> preußischer gesandter in <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743">london</placename>. <date when="1854" calendar="#gregorian">1854</date> wurde er aufgrund eigenmächtigen handelns abberufen, was den abschluss seiner diplomatischen laufbahn bedeutete.</note> as a national <lb />loss.</hi>