urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:	edition	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1	writingSession	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.1	p	i again do myself the honor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of availing myself of the kind privilege you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />allowed me of addressing you; & this at <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />last from the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename>. may this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />letter find you in continued health & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />vigor.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.2	p	on my arrival in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">calcutta</placename> with <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012119 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053586">lord <lb />dalhousie</persname> i found that the <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" />mission was broken up; the chinese <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />having sent no commissioners to meet <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />those of our <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>govt</abbr> <expan>government</expan> </choice>, & being more jealously <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than ever opposed to any european <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />crossing their frontier<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> i resolved at once <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to commence an exploration of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514">cis-<lb break="no" />himalayan</placename> regions. as the season was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />still very early i took an excursion on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the plains, which has not been wholly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />unprofitable. proceeding west from <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 joined <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>m</abbr> <expan>mister</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020850 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1210970546">william</persname><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>’s</orig> <reg>s’</reg></choice> (of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />coal survey) camp in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020901 https://www.geonames.org/1277029">burdwan</placename> district <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& visited the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kohle">coal</name> fields. these are certainly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in extent & position only to be compared <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with the carboniferous period of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">europe</placename>; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />their fossils must on the whole be regarded <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as equally dissimilar from those of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />oolite or carboniferous period, are allied <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to what i have seen in the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">australian fields</placename> <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /> <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">2.</fw>& possibly indicate their belonging to an <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />epoch which had no equivalent (chrono<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />logical) in the more northern latitudes. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kohle">coal</name> fields i ascended a lofty <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name> table land forming part of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />system which crosses <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename> from 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/h0020506 https://www.geonames.org/1267089">gulf of cambey</placename> to the junction of 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/h0020517 https://www.geonames.org/1269909">hughli</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename>. this is generally <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />considered a part of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename>, but <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i take it to be a different range <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parallel to the latter, joining it in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">central india</placename>, at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019058 https://www.geonames.org/1278905">omer-kuntuk</placename> the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />water shed of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019106 https://www.geonames.org/1261774">nerbudda</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& again <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>seperating</sic> <corr>separating</corr> </choice> it pursues a still <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parallel course dividing the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019106 https://www.geonames.org/1261774">nerbudda</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020702 https://www.geonames.org/1254944">taptee</placename>. the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> are a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name></hi> range from <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020925 https://www.geonames.org/1273923">chunar</placename> its <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.e.</abbr> <expan>north east</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />extreme on the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename> to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019058 https://www.geonames.org/1278905">omerkuntuk</placename> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="4500" unit="foot"><add place="superlinear">4500 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></add></measure>: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the range i crossed <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">first</del> <add place="superlinear"><hi rendition="#u"><name type="mineral" key="gneis">gneiss</name></hi> &</add> </subst> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name></hi> from <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/h0020517 https://www.geonames.org/1269909">hughli</placename> to the same <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><metamark />(<placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019058 https://www.geonames.org/1278905">omer kuntuk</placename>)</add>. thence <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 <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020506 https://www.geonames.org/1267089">gulf of cambey</placename> both are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />overlain by <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="flutbasalt">trap</name>, but the southern <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />range is still <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name> at <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u" hand="#unknown">heart</hi><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="right" hand="#unknown"><metamark>?</metamark></note> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />joins the great <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020872 https://www.geonames.org/1252876">ghat range</placename> which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />runs <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000357 https://www.geonames.org/1273845">cape comorin</placename>. the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />again<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>.</sic> <corr type="deleted" /> </choice> are continuous with the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f3931f19-beb2-4e30-931f-19beb22e3082" corresp="#f0c701b6-5145-41ae-8701-b65145f1ae67" type="editorialnote">rajpootan hills</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f0c701b6-5145-41ae-8701-b65145f1ae67" corresp="#f3931f19-beb2-4e30-931f-19beb22e3082" type="editorial">vermutlich ist das <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020735 https://www.geonames.org/127843">aravalligebirge</placename> gemeint. rajputana wurde die region des heutigen <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020650 https://www.geonames.org/1258899">rajasthan</placename> zur zeit von <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005357">britisch-indien</placename> genannt.</note>, <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020605 https://www.geonames.org/1279396"><choice> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mount</expan> </choice> aboe</placename> & all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the central & <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>western</expan> </choice> districts. for the <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="120" unit="mile">120</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />miles of the <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><name type="mineral" key="granit">granite</name></add> range <unclear xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="illegible" cert="high">i</unclear> traversed the mean<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">3.</fw>height was <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1200" unit="foot">1200 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> – with <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granite</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills of <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="3000" unit="foot">3000</measure> rising above it – one of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the latter i ascended was <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="4050" unit="foot">4050 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> above <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the sea & the great seat of jain worship <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the east, as <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020605 https://www.geonames.org/1279396"><choice> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mount</expan> </choice> aboe</placename> is in the west <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>. the jains who worship <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/h0020803">parus nath</persname> are certainly a transition <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sect between buddhists & brahmins.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.3	p	on these hills are scattered tribes of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very different <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">race</del> <add place="superlinear">origin</add> </subst>, the kols & bheels <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of central <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>; a very timid race, who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />segregate themselves from one another <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& all other people. these are no doubt, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />like the numerous scattered tribes along <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the base of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename>, the remote <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename>, the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="efafc657-3123-4f3e-afc6-573123df3e9b" corresp="#e6e41bd1-8d06-465e-a41b-d18d06965e8e" type="editorialnote">ghats</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e6e41bd1-8d06-465e-a41b-d18d06965e8e" corresp="#efafc657-3123-4f3e-afc6-573123df3e9b" type="editorial">die <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020872 https://www.geonames.org/1252876">westghats</placename> und <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020486 https://www.geonames.org/1272125">eastghats</placename> des <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">indischen</placename> subkontinents.</note> of 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/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">peninsula</placename> &c: – all remains of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />original tamulian stock, who ever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />since the arian invasion, have retained <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a position in the fastnesses of the mountains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& malarious jungles. such is the opinion <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of my friend 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>, undoubtedly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the best authority on these subjects & who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is now collecting vocabularies of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these scattered tribes throughout <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>. a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />noble work which none is better able to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />perform.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.4	p	proceeding west: the descent from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name> (<name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="gneis">gneiss</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="hornblende">hornblende</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="schiefer">schist</name> &c) plateau <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the plains through which the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flows is sudden, from <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1300" unit="foot">1300</measure> to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="600" unit="foot">600 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this plain<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="80" unit="mile">80</measure> or <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="mile">100 miles</measure> broad & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />level with the bed of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />isolates the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name> range of 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/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> from that of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020630 https://www.geonames.org/1260367">paras-nath</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(the culminant peak on the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plateau). crossing the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="#unknown"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">erannoboas</placename></note> (<placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">hieiramo<g ref="#typohyphen" /><lb break="no" />boas</placename>) about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="50" unit="mile">50 miles</measure> above its mouth <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(the undoubted site of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017613 https://www.geonames.org/1260086">palibothra</placename>), 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/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya range</placename> rise abruptly (called <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />here the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020534 https://www.geonames.org/1268614">kymaor</placename>) & present an abrupt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />escarpment <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1200" unit="foot">1200 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> above the plain of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />horizontal <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstones</name> overlying a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />thick bed of <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><metamark />non-</add>fossiliferous <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kalkstein">limestone</name>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.5	p	their wooded summits form another <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />table-land equal in height with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granitic</name> plateau, covered with a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />similar vegetation, but nowhere rising <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into hills, they are peopled by <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">a</del> very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />scattered tribes of kols & bheels who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />work the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="eisen">iron</name> found scattered over their <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />summits.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />though resting on <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kalkstein">limestone</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name> is nowhere carboniferous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& i suspect belongs to a very much earlier <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />period than that of the indian <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kohle">coal</name>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.6	p	from the east extreme of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i turned up the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> valley for <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="mile">one</measure> or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="200" unit="mile">two hundred miles</measure>, our march was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very fatiguing owing to the absence <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of roads & roughness of the country. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we passed the noble hill forts 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/h0020661 https://www.geonames.org/1258074">rhotas</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020902">bidjegur</placename>, which occupy <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />prominent spurs of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">range</placename>; the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name> on one side of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">river</placename> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />low hills of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="hornstein">hornstone</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="jaspis">jasper</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="quarz">quartz</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="porphyr">porphyry</name>, highly inclined & contorted <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the opposite or southern bank. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these are beneath the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kalkstein">limestone</name> 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/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> & i believe rest on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granite</name>: they are much altered by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heat & yield the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="jaspis">jaspers</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="achat">agates</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />known as <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> pebbles. their general <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />appearance is that of dry naked isolated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills skirting the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granite</name> formation <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the upper part of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> valley, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />running <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n. e.</abbr> <expan>north east</expan> </choice> to <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a4f3a0c8-0d51-4eba-b3a0-c80d513eba19" corresp="#f27e9fee-f404-4847-be9f-eef4040847e3" type="editorialnote">gya</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f27e9fee-f404-4847-be9f-eef4040847e3" corresp="#a4f3a0c8-0d51-4eba-b3a0-c80d513eba19" type="editorial">vermutlich ist <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020496 https://www.geonames.org/1271440">gaya</placename> gemeint.</note><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – on my passage <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />down the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename> i believe i recognize <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the same in the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019947 http://www.geonames.org/1262482">monghyr</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020693 https://www.geonames.org/8439888">sultanganje</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/h0020533 https://www.geonames.org/1273856">colgong</placename>-rocks, thus here skirting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> flanks of the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granit">granite</name> range & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />causing the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename> to take a long sweep<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="5v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">6.</fw>to the east. near <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">bhangulpore</placename> i <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />procured <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="achat">agates</name> precisely similar to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />those of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename>, which had been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />employed in the decoration of some <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ruined jain temples &c near that <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/h0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">town</placename>. –
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.7	p	during my travels up the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">soane</placename> i <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ascended the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> several times <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />botanizing<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> geologizing & taking <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>meterological</sic> <corr>meteorological</corr> </choice> observations: & finally <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />leaving the valley above <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020902">bidjeghur</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i crossed the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">vindhya</placename> & descended to <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/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename> at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020597 https://www.geonames.org/1262995">mirzapur</placename>. with the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />barometer i have levelled this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whole route. i carefully noted its <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indications 4 times a day, with those of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> black bulb-<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> photometer <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& hygrometer. at night i determined <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the amount of radiation both of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />naked exposed <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice> & others laid on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the ground, grass &c.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />a really magni<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />ficent aurora was the finest meteor <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i saw. & of this an account appeared in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the indian & european papers. solar <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />radiation i find much more powerful <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than it was ever supposed to be in these<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">7.</fw>latitudes, or than i ever observed it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to be in the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2">tropic</placename>al seas. even in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />month of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-02-01" to="1848-02-29" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">february</date> i have obtained results <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />quite opposed to the published conclusions <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on this subject. the extraordinary dryness <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the air on the table-land is <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased">extr</del> <add place="intralinear">very</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />remarkable. 0.387. being the mean <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amount of moisture during 10 days of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1848-02-01" to="1848-02-29" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">february</date><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> & on one occasion at 9 pm. 0.140. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />during this period i never saw dew <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />formed<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> though the nights were bright <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& clear: on the plains however <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1000" unit="foot">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />below, though the mean <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">dryness</del> <add place="superlinear">moisture</add> </subst> was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />0.516 only, dew was always formed. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />nocturnal radiation was the same <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amount above & below.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.8	p	from <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020597 https://www.geonames.org/1262995">mirzapur</placename> i took a boat <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& descended the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">ganges</placename> to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">bhangulpore</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />visiting many interesting <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">citys</del> <add place="superlinear">places</add> </subst> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />route especially <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005196 https://www.geonames.org/1253405">benares</placename>, where i visited <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the now ruinous <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020865 https://www.geonames.org/6619408">observatory</placename>; <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">.</del> <add place="across">(</add> </subst>one of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />five built by <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020774 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1055794522">jayn-singh</persname><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">:</del> <add place="intralinear">)</add> </subst> observed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with the famous <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" unit="words" quantity="1" /> & examined <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" unit="words" quantity="1" /><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the poor <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">astronomer royal</hi> was a squalid <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />object<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> dirty & diseased, who implored <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">bucksheesh</hi> on my departure, saying he<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="8r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">8.</fw>was very hungry & that the <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">ra</del> <add place="across">pr</add> </subst>esent <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/h0020771">rajah</persname> hardly gave him any-thing <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to keep him from starving.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.9	p	the sanatorium of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">darjeeling</placename> being <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />situated in the least explored part of <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/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> i travelled hither from <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/h0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">bhangulpore</placename>, by land; & shall remain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />till the rains are over. the chinese <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will not hear of any traveller crossing <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />their frontier & the <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018354">rajah</persname> of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">sikhim</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is opposed to my exploring in his <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />territories – i have however visited <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />both the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">nepaul</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">bhotan</placename> frontier <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& hope when the rains are over to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />get to the snowy range. this station <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is in the heart of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514">sub himalayah</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which rise<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">s</supplied> in forest clad hills all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />around to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10000" unit="foot">10</measure> & <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="14000" unit="foot">14 000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>: forming a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />series of short isolated ranges between <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the true snowy range & the plains. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />there is <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">no system whatever</hi> in this <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">subhimalayah</placename>, they are all short <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ridges running in various directions <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />divided by steep & deep valleys, through <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which the streams from the snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />wind to the plains.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />occasionally<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="8v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="9r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">9.</fw>hills of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="konglomerat">conglomerate</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="sandstein">sandstone</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rest on the outer base of <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514">subhimalayah</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& there is always a broad bed of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kies">gravel</name> resting on an indurated <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="ton">clay</name>: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />sometimes <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10" unit="mile">10 miles</measure> broad. the waters <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the many streams percolate through <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this, anastomize & render it a swamp, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which is the deadly malarious <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711">terai</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 tract is extremely narrow here <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but generally broad, covered with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />long <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="saccharum">sacchara</name> & other grasses, with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />here & there <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">dalbergia sissoo</name> & other <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />small trees. the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" subtype="vernacular" key="shorea robusta">sal</name> forest (<name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">shorea <lb />robusta</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">)</supplied> is generally at its inner core <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ascending the hills for <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="2000" unit="foot">2000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />occupying dry spurs of the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which project on to the plains.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.10	p	at <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><measure quantity="4000" unit="foot">4000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></hi> tropical forms are replaced <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />by temperate <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">ones</supplied>. <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="rhododendron">rhododendrons</name></hi> are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not in <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">this</hi> longitude found below <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; from above <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">of</supplied> which i have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />12 species, one an <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="epiphyt">epiphyte</name></hi> & <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">sweet <lb />scented</hi> with <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">enormous</hi> white flowers. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />both <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice> &<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> of this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="rhododendron">rhododendrons</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />descend to <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><measure quantity="5000" unit="foot">50</measure></del> <add place="across"><measure quantity="4500" unit="foot">45</measure></add> </subst>00 <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice> & even lower. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the rocks are <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="glimmerschiefer">mica schist</name> with<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="9v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="10r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">10.</fw> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="granat">garnets</name> at the outer base of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills – highly contorted & dislocated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />bed of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="gneis">gneiss</name> higher up to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7000" unit="foot">7000</measure> & <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>. in the valleys i have visited <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> of this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="chloritschiefer">chlorite</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="quarzschiefer">quartz slate</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="quarz">quartz</name> itself. i am inclined to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />think that these rocks all pass <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into one another here; but so dense <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a forest clothes all that it is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />difficult to prove this. though the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys are so steep we have hardly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a precipice any where. we have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kalkstein"><choice> <abbr>limest</abbr> <expan>limestone</expan> </choice></name> depositing springs in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />valleys but none <foreign xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="lat">in situ</foreign>: in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">bootan</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow"><unclear reason="covered" cert="medium">n</unclear></del> <add place="across">ea</add> </subst>st of this<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> wholly of primitive <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kalkstein">limestone</name> are common. i have seen <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />no volcanic rocks, but picked up <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rolled <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="kieselgestein">pebbles</name> in the deep streams of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="flutbasalt">trap</name> or <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="grünstein">green stone</name>. in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000500 https://www.geonames.org/1262117">kemaon</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />volcanic rocks are fully developed & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />doubtless too in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">nepaul</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312">sikim</placename> too <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as well as <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">bhotan</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.11	p	<placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">da<add place="superlinear">r</add>jeeling</placename> is <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>elevat</sic> <corr>elevated</corr> </choice> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="7200" unit="foot">7200 <choice> <abbr>ft:</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> on a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ridge or spur of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="gneis">gneiss</name> looking <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">d<gap quantity="1" unit="chars" reason="covered" /></del> <add place="intralinear">north</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />overlooking a series of many hills of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="8000" unit="foot">8</measure>-<measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="10000" unit="foot">10000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> which, divided by an equal<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="10v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="11r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">11.</fw>number of deep & steep valleys<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> intervene <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between this place & the snow. <anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="target" xml:id="start_x1w_sq5_q1c" />the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />latter rises in a grand mass of snowy <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />peaks<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> spires, domes & tables topped <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills to the height of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#uu"><measure quantity="28178" unit="foot">28178 feet</measure></hi><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied><anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="target" xml:id="stop_x1w_sq5_q1c" />
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.12	p	last night the <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829">surveyor general</persname> who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />spent last season here sent us the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />results of his measurements as above. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this mountain, the loftiest on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />globe, except <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457">dawalgiri</placename> now being <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />remeasured be higher, is only 42′ off; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is called <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kinchin-jinga</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.13	p	the measurements were taken from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />8 stations, all agreed within <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="200" unit="foot">200 feet</measure> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& most within much less – two within <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><measure quantity="1" unit="foot">one foot</measure></hi> of one another. it was a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very long & most <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>admireably</orig> <reg>admirably</reg> </choice> conducted <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />operation. <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">chamalari</placename>, which is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />visible from this neighbourhood<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="24000" unit="foot">24000</measure>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.14	p	there is a curious bend 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/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.e.</abbr> <expan>north east</expan> </choice> of this, an interruption <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the whole chain in short; so that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i expect <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">chamalari</placename> will prove to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />belong to the true range, though <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />owing to the dislocation of the latter<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="11v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="12r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">12.</fw>that mountain be isolated. the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />subjoined rude sketch may give <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />some idea of what i mean<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – by this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it appears that <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">chamalari</placename> is scarcely <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />4′ north of the snowy range proper<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.15	figure	<figdesc xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">schematische zeichnung einer trigonometrischen messung der berge <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kangchendzönga</placename> und <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">chomolhari</placename> im <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename> 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.H0020421:1.16	p	your <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="da69ec74-a7bd-4c36-a9ec-74a7bdac367e" corresp="#e81dc089-f008-4dde-9dc0-89f0081dded1" type="editorialnote">asie centrale</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e81dc089-f008-4dde-9dc0-89f0081dded1" corresp="#da69ec74-a7bd-4c36-a9ec-74a7bdac367e" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev">humboldt 1843.</bibl></note> contains the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">only</hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />trustworthy map of <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">the</supplied> <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">thibet</placename>an <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice> system: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">t</del> <add place="across">t</add> </subst>hese are not my dear friend the words <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of flattery, but the unbiassed opinion of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my master in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">thibet</placename>an geography & present <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kind host, mr <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodg<add place="superlinear">s</add>on</persname>; who has deeply <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />studied the subject. we labor over <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the excellent charts of <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased">richter</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"><persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130x">ritter</persname></add> </subst>, <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012653 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117662046">d’anville</persname>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& the imperishable work of <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001337 http://d-nb.info/gnd/10082451x">klaproth</persname>: but <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />none of these rival yours. your <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</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">bolor</placename>, <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792">kien-lun</placename> & the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020631">pelin chain</placename> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />east are the boundaries of that country; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">we</add> only differ in still holding the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename></hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">not the <placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792">kien-lun</placename></hi> to be the dividing chain <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/h0002578">asia</placename>. – all your views on the climatology <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a047d90b-f5e0-4e09-87d9-0bf5e06e0994" corresp="#f0b05db4-81a8-4149-b05d-b481a84149b8" type="editorialnote">asie centrale</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f0b05db4-81a8-4149-b05d-b481a84149b8" corresp="#a047d90b-f5e0-4e09-87d9-0bf5e06e0994" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev">humboldt 1843.</bibl></note> are excellent. the snow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />line is indisputably <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">much</hi> higher on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> side of the great range, & for the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />reasons you assign, great evaporation & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a trifling precipitation. these indeed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are the ruling elements all along the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />chain & to this is due the wonderful <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />fact, that the snow line descends from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="20000" unit="foot">20,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in the trans<placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006">sutledge</placename> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />36 <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> (in the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice>) to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="15000" unit="foot">15000</measure> on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />passes south of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahma-putra</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />between <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020610 https://www.geonames.org/1327865">birma</placename> in 27 !! where <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />are the southernmost snowy <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578">asia</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.17	p	the course of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">yaru tsampo</placename> is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />still a matter of dispute; & consequently <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the upper course of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahmaputra</placename><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <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> inclines to think the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dihong</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dibong</placename> &c<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> defluents of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsanpo</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which thus divides <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> of the snow & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />seeks many courses through that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />chain into the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahma-putra</placename>. when <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i consider the enormous precipitation <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />all along the course of the latter river <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& that it drains snowy <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> north<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />east & south of its course in 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> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i cannot but suppose that it has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">enough to do</hi> without receiving 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/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampo</placename>. does the latter then flow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006687 https://www.geonames.org/1545739">ocean</placename> east of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006724">irrawaddi</placename>? <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />or join the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020527 https://www.geonames.org/1815696">yanzi kiang</placename>? we know <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename> reach<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">es</supplied> upper <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/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename>, but whether <gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="lost" unit="chars" quantity="1" /> the chain is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />thence continued east, or turns south, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020598 https://www.geonames.org/1262990">mishmi &c hills</placename>, is still <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />undetermined, & this probably will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indicate the course of that <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">mysterious <lb />river</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.18	p	i intend to devote the following<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="14v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="15r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">15.</fw>season to upper <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename> & hope by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />measuring the waters of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dihong</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahmaputra</placename> at <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017358 https://www.geonames.org/1257871">sudiya</placename> to gain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />some indications. i may too gain <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />information from the native tribes <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but constant wars segregate these <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />so much that they have not the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />means of acquiring information themselves.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.19	p	since we have established <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="camellia sinensis">tea</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plantations & opened a trade with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these tribes<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> the chinese have guarded <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that frontier with redoubled solici<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />tude, & except some most unlooked <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for event should open a communi<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />cation with that people i dare not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hope ever to enter <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">thibet</placename> east 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/h0000500 https://www.geonames.org/1262117">kemaon</placename>.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.20	p	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> & myself are now <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />anxious to define some <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">defineable</del> <add place="superlinear"><choice> <sic>intelligeable</sic> <corr>intelligible</corr> </choice></add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regions in the whole length of 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/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename> so as to indicate the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />botanical & zoological regions with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />more precision than by such vag<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">u</supplied>e <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />terms as <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988">nepaul</placename>, <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634">bhotan</placename> &c. he <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />has proposed dividing the chain longi<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="15v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="16r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">16.</fw><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">dut</del> <add place="across">tud</add> </subst>inally by the obverse deltas the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rivers form, or rather the affluents of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the rivers. each region will thus <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />embrace the space between two of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the greater or culminant mountains; <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">t</del> <add place="across">t</add> </subst>hese throw off the water <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">in</del> <add place="across">to</add> </subst> the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />east & to the west. the eastern streams <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/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688"><subst> <del rendition="#ow">gu</del> <add place="across">go</add> </subst>ssain-than</placename> for instance <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>alt</abbr> <expan>altitude</expan> </choice> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s"><measure quantity="26000" unit="foot">26000</measure></del> <add place="superlinear"><measure quantity="24700" unit="foot">24,700</measure></add> </subst> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />meeting the western streams from <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">dhavala-giri</placename> together form the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020497 https://www.geonames.org/1271732">gandac</placename></hi><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="#unknown"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020497 https://www.geonames.org/1271732">gandaki</placename></note> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear" hand="#author">river</add>, – <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688">gossain than</placename> & <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kinchin<g ref="#typohyphen" /><lb break="no" />junga</placename> the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067"><hi rendition="#u">cosi</hi> river</placename> – <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259">kinchinjung</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/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390">chola</placename> or <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607">chamalari</placename> give another <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />watershed, the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">tista</placename>: now he can <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />zoologically define the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027">tista</placename> valley, <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/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067">cosi</placename> valley or <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020497 https://www.geonames.org/1271732">gandac</placename> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>v.</abbr> <expan>valley</expan> </choice> & i can <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />do the same botanically: so that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we apprehend no difficulty in carrying <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />out this view.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.21	p	the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">thibet</placename> mission as i mentioned <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />above is broken up, but my intrepid <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />friend <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">thomson</persname> who explored 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/h0020681 https://www.geonames.org/1256406">shayuk</placename> in the month of <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" from="1847-12-01" to="1847-12-31" cert="high" calendar="#gregorian">december</date> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />returned by <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010277 http://www.geonames.org/1164709">iskardo</placename> to <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000378 https://www.geonames.org/1440268">kashmir</placename>, is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />allowed to travel another year, & thus <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />already started for <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011406 https://www.geonames.org/1264976">leh</placename> & hopes to cross<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="16v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="17r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folnum">17.</fw>the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791">karokoram</placename>, he is working admirably. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i think i told you he was my earliest <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />play-fellow, school & college companion: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we took our degrees & started in life <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />together, he for <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">india</placename>, i for the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><placename ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010385 https://www.geonames.org/6942239">south <lb />pole</placename></hi>. when i was shut up in the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ice he was a prisoner in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000324 https://www.geonames.org/1138958">cabul</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />suffering the horrors of that captivity, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which so few survived. i need not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />say how anxious we are to meet <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />next year, after a 10 years absence. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />could he have travelled in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010713 https://www.geonames.org/1281307">yarkand</placename> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i would have joined him ere this<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>;</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.22	p	the second volume of <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e4b3b82f-470b-462f-b3b8-2f470b562f90" corresp="#b9fef271-2187-456b-bef2-712187056b56" type="editorialnote">kosmos</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="b9fef271-2187-456b-bef2-712187056b56" corresp="#e4b3b82f-470b-462f-b3b8-2f470b562f90" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/7pb289n5">humboldt 1846-1858, ii</bibl>.</note><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />given us the greatest delight: there are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />3 copies in <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467">darjeeling</placename>! where there are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not 30 european residents — <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015345 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11671350x"><choice> <abbr>col</abbr> <expan>colonel</expan> </choice></persname> & mrs <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/h0015346 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1246944189">sabine</persname>’s <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/7pb289n5">translation</bibl> is admirable.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.23	p	the <orgname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018854 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1009388-6">asiatic society</orgname> flourishes here, & <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020756 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117498246"><choice> <abbr>d<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>doctor</expan> </choice> <lb />falconer</persname><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">’</supplied>s arrival in charge of the gardens <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />has given a spur to science. they have done <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />me the honor of making me an honorary <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />member.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.24	p	you will be sorry to hear that the news <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />has this day reached me, of my dear <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x">father</persname>'s <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />having fallen in the <orgname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4">gardens</orgname>, dislocated his <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />shoulder, & lacerated certain ligaments of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />joint.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />should you ever see my old friend <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />herr <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001377 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116235454">klotzsch</persname> will you honor me by conve<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">y</supplied>ing <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my affectionate regards to him<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:1.25	p	p. s. i have reason to believe <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the snows <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">are</supplied> accumulating & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the snow line <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">is</supplied> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">descending</hi> on 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/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalayah</placename>. i will attend to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this subject however.
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.1	p	<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">abschrift.</hi><space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020421/13r"><choice> <abbr>p.</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 13.</ref>
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urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.2.1.1	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><ref xml:id="fad95ea4-da61-4fcf-995e-a4da619fcf7b" corresp="#fbf6b07d-8406-4115-b6b0-7d840671157c" type="editorialnote">asie <choice> <abbr>centr.</abbr> <expan>centrale</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> iii <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 326</ref><note xml:id="fbf6b07d-8406-4115-b6b0-7d840671157c" corresp="#fad95ea4-da61-4fcf-995e-a4da619fcf7b" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev">humboldt 1843, iii, 326</bibl> (dt. ausgabe: <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/dv9ud9gw">humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target="https://www.e-rara.ch/6872905">ii, 203</ref>).</note></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><persname ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">hooker</persname></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.2.1.2	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><choice> <abbr>nördl.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>tub.</abbr> <expan>tubetischer</expan> </choice> abfall</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="15600" unit="pied_de_roi">15600 <choice> <abbr>par f.</abbr> <expan>pariser fuss</expan> </choice></measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="18764" unit="pied_de_roi">18764 <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>pariser</expan> </choice> <supplied cert="high">fuss</supplied></measure></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.2.1.3	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><choice> <abbr>südl.</abbr> <expan>südlicher</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>ind.</abbr> <expan>indischer</expan> </choice> abfall</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="12180" unit="pied_de_roi">12180</measure> —</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="14073" unit="pied_de_roi">14073</measure> <supplied cert="high">—</supplied></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.2.1.4	row	<cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">unterschied mittlerer</cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><measure quantity="3430" unit="pied_de_roi">3420 <choice> <abbr>f</abbr> <expan>fuss</expan> </choice></measure></cell> <cell xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><choice> <abbr>extr.</abbr> <expan>extremer</expan> </choice> <measure quantity="4690" unit="pied_de_roi">4690</measure><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> <supplied cert="high">fuss</supplied></cell>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.3	p	<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">abschrift.</hi><space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" target="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020421/14r"><choice> <abbr>p.</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 14.</ref>
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.4	p	the course of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">yaru tsampo</placename> is still a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />matter of dispute; and consequently the upper <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />course of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahma-putra</placename>. <persname xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">hodgson</persname> in<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />clines to think the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dih<subst> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">e</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">o</add> </subst>ng</placename>, <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">dib<subst> <del rendition="#ow" hand="#unknown">er</del> <add place="across" hand="#unknown">on</add> </subst>g</placename> etc. de<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typohyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />fluents of the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampo</placename> which thos divides <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the snow and <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">trells</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">seeks</add> </subst> many courses through <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that chain into the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">brahma-putra</placename>. whe<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">re</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">n</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />i consider the enormous precipitation all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />allong the course of the latter river and that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it drains snowy mountains north, east and <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />south of its course in upper <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename>, i can<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />not but suppose, that it has enough to do <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />without recieving the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">tsampo</placename>. does the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />latter then flow into the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006687 https://www.geonames.org/1545739">ocean</placename> east of 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/h0006724">irrawaddi</placename>? or join the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020527 https://www.geonames.org/1815696">yanzi kiang</placename>? we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />know, that the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">himalaya</placename> reach upper <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">assam</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but whether the chain is thence continued <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />east, or turns south as the <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020598 https://www.geonames.org/1262990">mishmi<subst> <del rendition="#s" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"> and</del> <add place="across" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee">an</add> </subst> hills</placename>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is still undetermined and this probably will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indicate the course of that <placename xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">mysterious river</placename>.
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