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. 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. 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. 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>. 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>. 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>. – 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. 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. 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. 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>. <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" /> 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>. 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>. 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> <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> 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>. 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>. 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. 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>. 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. 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> 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. 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. 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> 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. <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> <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> 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>. I intend to devote the following <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" /> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="intralinear" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee">.....</add> 