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>
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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" />
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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" />
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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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