d 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>\nurn: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>\nurn: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>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020421:2.5	p	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>'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.1	head	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#b\">A. de Humboldt à Mr. <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Joseph Dalton Hooker</persName>, <lb />à <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005548 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Dorjeeling</placeName> (<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikhim</placeName> <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>).</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.2	p	Vous connaissez assez, mon cher Monsieur Hooker, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l\'amitié et la haute estime que je vous ai voués pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pouvoir douter un instant du plaisir que j’ai éprouvé<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"40\" />en recevant de vous un souvenir aussi affectueux et si <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />riche en observations importantes. Vos deux lettres <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en date du <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020421\"><date when=\"1848-07-25\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">25 Juillet</date></ref> et du <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020373\"><date when=\"1848-08-09\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">9 Août</date></ref> me sont arrivées <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec cette rapidité qui surprend, et qui prouve les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />progrès inouis de l’art de la navigation !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.3	p	Les tristes agitations politiques de mon <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044\">pays</placeName> et ma <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />position auprès du <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Roi</persName> me forcent de vous offrir plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laconiquement que je voudrois le faire l’hommage de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ma vive reconnaissance et d’un attachement héréditaire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour son objet, puisqu’il date du voyage de votre ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />cellent père en <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006739 https://www.geonames.org/2629691\">Islande</placeName> et de la bienveillance qu’il a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daigné me montrer en publiant mes <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"Cryptogamen\">cryptogames</name> des <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/H0002454\">Andes</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.4	p	J’ai une qualité morale qui n’est pas commun par<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mi les voyageurs et dont j’aime a me vanter: je jouis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la gloire et des succès de mes amis. Jugez par <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la combien je me plais à l’idée qu’avec la variété de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connaissances et de vues que vous avez acquises, Mon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sieur, aidés des conseils du plus savant et du plus ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />périmenté des scrutateurs de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>, Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous puissiez pénétrer en avant vers les pentes du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchinjinga</placeName> que vous nous avez fait connaître. La <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesure trigonométrique de cette cime — (donnez-nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le nom de celui qui a mesuré récemment le <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\" />jinga</placeName> et le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName>!), vos communications géologi<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ques et botaniques, celles qui ont rapport au cours du <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\">Dzangbo-tchou</placeName> (<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006724\">Irawaddy</placeName> <metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) et la limite des neiges nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont vivement intéressé Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130X\">Ritter</persName> et moi.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.5	p	J’ai été en particulier très-sensible au suffrage im<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />portant que le savant 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> a donné aux parties<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"41\" />principales de mon ouvrage sur l’<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"be25be71-2419-4e7b-a5be-712419be7b4b\" corresp=\"#bc615e46-8679-42d9-a15e-468679b2d9ae\" type=\"editorialNote\">Asie centrale</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bc615e46-8679-42d9-a15e-468679b2d9ae\" corresp=\"#be25be71-2419-4e7b-a5be-712419be7b4b\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843.</bibl></note>. Quand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous ajoutez un dissentiment sur l’opinion que j’ai eu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’audace d’exprimer que la continuation de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-<lb break=\"no\" />kho</placeName> à l’est du croisement de la chaîne méridionale du <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> et le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">Kouen-lun</placeName> et non l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> (le dernier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />offrant un changement <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">d’allure</hi> SE—NO. (entre 74° et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />82° de long. de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010917 https://www.geonames.org/2647937\">Greenwich</placeName>)<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> je pense que ce dissentiment <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />se fonde plutôt à des notions de volume et de hauteur, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à des idées hypsométriques, qu’à ces vues de la géologie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moderne, qui met le plus d’importance à la continuité <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de direction d’une même fente, sur laquelle une chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de montagnes a été soulevée. Or dans une chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de montagnes la connaissance des latitudes me paraît <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />un argument de la plus haute importance: j’aurois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dit un argument décisif, si je ne parlois pas à des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hommes, qui sont sur les lieux et qui forment des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />combinaisons, qui ont pu m’échapper.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.6	p	Vous dites, mon excellent ami, que Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et vous-même vous continuez à regarder l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comme <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">„the dividing chain“</foreign>: certes elle est par son <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />élévation continue, sa crête c. à d. la série de mon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tagnes colossales, placées généralement E—O. de long. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />82° à 97° en traversant semblable au <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005299\">Bolor</placeName> les chaînes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />méridionales (dirigées N—S.) qui causent la grande <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sinuosité du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Dzangbo-tchou</placeName> et déterminent la forme de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la péninsule de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008607\">Malacca</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.7	p	II est très-probable qu’à l’est du méridien de <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/H0020611 https://www.geonames.org/1280502\">Tengri-noor</placeName> (long. 90°) la direction E—0. du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">Kouen<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lun</placeName> est moins marquée que celle E—0. de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui recommence en <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">Chine</placeName> à l’est du croisement (long.<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"42\" />97°—103°) du système de chaînes méridionales: mais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la latitude, les parallèles de 35° 3′ et de 35° 22′ qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />suit la fente de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-kho</placeName> diffère bien essentiellement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la latitude moyenne de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> (lat. 28° à 29°) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’est du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName>, pour ne pas chercher la conti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nuation de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-kho</placeName> plus au nord.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.8	p	C’est comme dans les filons que par un change<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment d’allure que l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> se lie dans le nœud du <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/H0008047\">Thsoung-ling</placeName> à l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-kho</placeName> (<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cb8110e5-6f9b-4f04-8110-e56f9bbf04b9\" corresp=\"#e5dd12b7-4ce4-41de-9d12-b74ce471dede\" type=\"editorialNote\">Asie centrale, p. XXII, <lb />p. 124–133, 205–207,</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e5dd12b7-4ce4-41de-9d12-b74ce471dede\" corresp=\"#cb8110e5-6f9b-4f04-8110-e56f9bbf04b9\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, I, XXII, 124–133 und 205–207 (dt. Ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DV9UD9GW\">Humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872001\">I, 7 </ref>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872091\">I, 97–102</ref> und <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872135\">I, 141–143</ref>).</note> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c609675c-a141-4519-8967-5ca1418519c6\" corresp=\"#b30260c0-2f87-4d69-8260-c02f87bd69fd\" type=\"editorialNote\">T. II, p. 367, p. 414–435</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b30260c0-2f87-4d69-8260-c02f87bd69fd\" corresp=\"#c609675c-a141-4519-8967-5ca1418519c6\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, II, 367 und 414–435 (dt. Ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DV9UD9GW\">Humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872571\">I, 572</ref> und <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872597\">I, 598–609</ref>).</note>). <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Je désire beaucoup que ce point important soit un jour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />discuté publiquement par 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>, dont la bien<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />veillance me rassure et l’autorité est si grande. La <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />chaîne occidentale des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">Alpes</placeName> présente aussi, comme l’a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prouvé <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005901 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116098627\">Élie de Beaumont</persName>, près du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008955 https://www.geonames.org/3181986\">Mont-Blanc</placeName> un <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />changement d’allure, la direction des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020677 https://www.geonames.org/3173906\">Alpes maritimes</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />étant presque N—S.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.9	p	Nous avions cru jusqu’ici que les deux plus hautes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cimes de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> étaient le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName> et le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">Dja<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />wahir</placeName>, en donnant au premier <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">28,077 piés anglais</measure> ou <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26345\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">26,345 piés de Roi</measure> (ancienne mesure françoise), au <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />second <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">25,749 piés anglais</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26345\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">24,160 piés françois</measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013123 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116636688\">Colebrooke</persName> (<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a1d45d97-c096-4f41-945d-97c0960f41ef\" corresp=\"#c5b9ef38-25a1-4f45-b9ef-3825a15f457f\" type=\"editorialNote\">Asie centrale, T. III, p. 283</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c5b9ef38-25a1-4f45-b9ef-3825a15f457f\" corresp=\"#a1d45d97-c096-4f41-945d-97c0960f41ef\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, III, 283 (dt. Ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DV9UD9GW\">Humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872880\">II, 178</ref>).</note>) regardoit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la mesure du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName> comme peu certaine. Or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comme le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchinjinga</placeName> a <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28178\" unit=\"foot\">28,178 piés anglais</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26438\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">26,438 <lb />piés françois</measure> et que vous dites que <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchinjinga</placeName> est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la plus haute cime <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">après le <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName></hi>, ce dernier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doit avoir plus de hauteur que les <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">28,077 feet</measure> qu’on <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lui a assignés jusqu’ici. Vous m’obligerez beaucoup en<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"43\" />me communiquant le résultat de la nouvelle et dernière <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesure du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1.1	item	le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020521 https://www.geonames.org/3914282\">Sorata</placeName> n’a plus que <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21286\" unit=\"foot\">21,286 p. angl.</measure> (6497<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">m</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19972\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">19,972 p. fr.</measure>)<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>,</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1.2	item	l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006668 https://www.geonames.org/3914272\">Illimani</placeName> n’a plus que <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21149\" unit=\"foot\">21,149 p. angl.</measure> (6446<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">m</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19843\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">19843 p. fr.</measure>)<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.11	p	ll y a donc une erreur sur le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020521 https://www.geonames.org/3914282\">Sorata</placeName> de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3716\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">3716</measure>, sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006668 https://www.geonames.org/3914272\">Illimani</placeName> de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2675\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">2675 piés françois</measure> !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.12	p	Il est cruel, que Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001850 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116077468\">Pentland</persName>, qui est un géologue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />très-spirituel et instruit ne nous ait pas révélé cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />étrange erreur plutôt !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.13	p	Voilà donc mon <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007391 https://www.geonames.org/3659238\">Chimborazo</placeName> de nouveau la plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />haute cime des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002454\">Andes</placeName>. C’est une dynastie restaurée! <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Tous les livres de géographie physique, tous les profils <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />géologiques et hypsométriques ont été empestés depuis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />18 ans de ces fausses mesures. Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001850 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116077468\">Pentland</persName> m’écrit <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"44\" />de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">Paris</placeName> que ayant été envoyé par le gouvernement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deux fois en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1827\">1827</date> et <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1838\">1838</date> à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005296 https://www.geonames.org/3923057\">Bolivia</placeName>, les opérations tri<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gonométriques, faites en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1838\">1838</date> lui ont prouvé que ses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />premières opérations de <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1827\">1827</date>, communiquées à sa 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\" />mande en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1830\">1830</date> par M. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012670 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118847767\">Arago</persName>, étoient inexactes à cause <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la petitesse de sa base.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.1	item	1) à la géographie proprement dite, mappemondes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />divisions de provinces;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.2	item	2) aux chaînes de montagnes et de rivières;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.3	item	3) à l’Ethnographie;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.4	item	4) à la géographie des plantes et —\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.5	item	5) des animaux.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.15	p	Vous désirez aussi des esquisses sur les courans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aériens et pélagiques, mes lignes isothermes et la géolo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gie (sans doute la superposition des formations).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.16	p	On veut rémunérer l’auteur de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"100\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">100</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"150\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">150 £ Sterl.</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />payable en <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">Angleterre</placeName> quand le manuscrit sera livré <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec le dessin des cartes. C’est une affaire. Il faut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />donc, mon cher ami, que je suivisse bien exactement ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que désire 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>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.17	p	Mon choix est facile à fixer. Je dois vous propo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser un <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">savant</persName>, dont les nombreux travaux publiés 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\" />puis plus de 25 ans (des Manuels de géographie, les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />belles cartes de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Inde insulaire</placeName> etc., l’<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c3559b65-70a9-4f22-959b-6570a96f227a\" corresp=\"#b19e3b0e-7657-412b-9e3b-0e7657312ba3\" type=\"editorialNote\">Atlas physique, <lb />illustrations of the geographical distribution of Natural <lb />phenomena relating to Geology, Hydrography, Meteoro<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />logy and Natural History</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b19e3b0e-7657-412b-9e3b-0e7657312ba3\" corresp=\"#c3559b65-70a9-4f22-959b-6570a96f227a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/FTVUQDQA\">Berghaus 1845–1848.</bibl></note> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d1849c6d-3814-40ce-849c-6d381490ce8e\" corresp=\"#fcafbd54-9300-4e06-afbd-5493000e0630\" type=\"editorialNote\">traduit et considérablement aug<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />menté</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fcafbd54-9300-4e06-afbd-5493000e0630\" corresp=\"#d1849c6d-3814-40ce-849c-6d381490ce8e\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/AQBTKSES\">Johnston 1848.</bibl></note> par <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004177 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117677566\">Johnston</persName> à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005589 https://www.geonames.org/2650225\">Edinburgh</placeName>) ont été honorable<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment appréciés en <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044\">Allemagne</placeName>, en <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">Angleterre</placeName> et en <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/H0004801 https://www.geonames.org/3017382\">France</placeName>. Je parle du Professeur <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>, directeur de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020406 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1085940675\">Institut géographique</orgName> établi à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">Potsdam</placeName>. Il accepte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la proposition en fixant la rémunération à <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"150\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">cent cinquante <lb />livres Sterling</measure>, à cause d’autres travaux littéraires, que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce travail lui fera négliger.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.18	p	J’ai discuté très-sérieusement avec lui la nature de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce travail, qui doit être correct, simple, pas verbeux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de style, très exact dans les chiffres, tout réduit en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesures anglaises, therm. de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000022 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118685783\">Fahrenheit</persName>, milles anglaises, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en adoptant les notions géographiques à l’intérêt asiati<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />que et anglo-européen, l’intérêt de métropole et des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />colonies (possessions anglaises).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.19	p	Il faut fixer le nombre des feuilles à imprimer et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le nombre des cartes physiques et géographiques. Nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avons pensé que quinze feuilles d’impression suffiront. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous voudrez bien dire, s’il en faut jusqu’à 20 feuilles, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cela a de l’importance pour l’étendue des divers articles. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Le nombre des cartes seroit mieux de 11 ou 12 que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 8. La grandeur convenable serait de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">16 inches</measure> <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">in <lb />length</foreign> et de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10.5\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">10 ½ inches</measure> <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">in hight</foreign>. Cela seroit un in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Quarto</hi> allongé. II faut éviter de ne pas plier les<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"46\" />cartes. Si vous ne voulez pas que les cartes fassent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />un cahier séparé, on pourrait imprimer le texte sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trois colonnes à chaque page.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.1	item	A) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Géographie proprement dite:</hi> — Deux Mappe<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mondes, dont une projection de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020797 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118580973\">Mercator</persName> plus favorable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour les notions météorologiques de diversité de Climats <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par les mêmes latitudes. — Une carte de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europe</placeName></hi>, — <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asie</placeName> entière</hi>, — une de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Inde</placeName></hi> seulement jus<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />qu’au parallèle du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">Jawahir</placeName> vers lat. 31° (<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000378 https://www.geonames.org/1440268\">Cachmir</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">La<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dak</placeName>, le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008478 https://www.geonames.org/1167710\">Pendjab</placeName>, le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">Manassorowar</placeName>, la courbure du <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\">Dzangbo-tchou</placeName> pourront être vus comme le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-kho</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur la carte générale de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asie</placeName>). Il faut conserver de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la place pour le pays au sud de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> entre 80° <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et 97° de long. — Cela fait 5 cartes géographiques.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.2	item	B) Il reste pour les cartes physiques:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.3	item	6) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Chaînes de montagne</hi> sous le rapport hypsomé<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />trique des cimes et des plateaux, Profils de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002454\">Andes</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">Alpes</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008509 https://www.geonames.org/3112616\">Pyrénées</placeName>; Neiges perpétuelles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />peut-être avec les détails de ma Carte dans le livre: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e195a00a-5b2d-4685-95a0-0a5b2da685d0\" corresp=\"#e2cb8b59-6302-442c-8b8b-596302b42cf3\" type=\"editorialNote\">De distributione geographica plantarum 1817</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e2cb8b59-6302-442c-8b8b-596302b42cf3\" corresp=\"#e195a00a-5b2d-4685-95a0-0a5b2da685d0\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/5BIJ6MM2\">Humboldt 1817.</bibl> Die Karte findet sich am <ref target=\"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50700218\">Ende des Buches.</ref></note>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.4	item	7) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Carte des courants dans les mers</hi> avec <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><hi rendition=\"#g\">quelques</hi> <lb />lignes isothermes</hi> seulement pour faire comprendre le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sens des sommets concaves et convexes, côtes orientales <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et occidentales, décroissement du <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">Calorique</add> sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />montagnes.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.5	item	8) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Zones de plantes</hi>, surtout les cultures.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.6	item	9) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Distribution géographique des animaux.</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Les figures de plantes célèbres par la culture et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les figures des animaux ne doivent pas être sur les<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"47\" />cartes comme au moyen âge: ces figures (dessins liné<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />aires non ombrés) formeront en bandes (arabesques) le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cadre des Cartes 8 et 9.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.7	item	10) Les <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">courbes magnétiques</hi> de déclinaison, d’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\" />clinaison et d’intensité seulement quelques-unes, pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comprendre leur valeur, les maxima et minima, les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">lignes sans déclinaison</hi>, l’intersection de l’équateur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />magnétique avec l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002500\">équateur géographique</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.8	item	11) <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bbdecf04-22b5-47c6-9ecf-0422b527c6a2\" corresp=\"#cdee1f2f-217e-499e-ae1f-2f217e499e8f\" type=\"editorialNote\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">Races d’hommes</hi>, seulement l’ancien continent</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cdee1f2f-217e-499e-ae1f-2f217e499e8f\" corresp=\"#bbdecf04-22b5-47c6-9ecf-0422b527c6a2\" type=\"editorial\">Humboldt war die Karte von Berghaus über die Verteilung von Menschenrassen in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europa</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asien</placeName> bekannt (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/FTVUQDQA\">Berghaus 1845–1848</bibl>, S. 146–147). Sie entsteht in dieser Zeit und dürfte Humboldt bei Vorschlag dieser Karte im Hinterkopf gehabt haben.</note>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />placé de manière à donner une partie de la <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010384 https://www.geonames.org/4030483\">mer du <lb />sud</placeName> vers la <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456\">Nouvelle Hollande</placeName> (projection de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020797 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118580973\">Mercator</persName>).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.9	item	12) Une petite équisse du <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Monde planétaire</hi> actuel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lement connu des cercles jusqu’à Neptune, mais seule<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment deux des astéroïdes, Cérès et Irès ou Flore, pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ne pas rendre le dessin confus. A côté les vrais dia<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mètres jusqu’à Uranus et Neptune, <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c1db5226-5169-4aec-9b52-2651695aecb5\" corresp=\"#f82b3709-d9c7-4702-ab37-09d9c74702ac\" type=\"editorialNote\">d’après la belle et <lb />toute nouvelle Carte planétaire de <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013204 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118522396\">Bernhard Cotton</persName>.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f82b3709-d9c7-4702-ab37-09d9c74702ac\" corresp=\"#c1db5226-5169-4aec-9b52-2651695aecb5\" type=\"editorial\">Gemeint ist die dem fünften Brief im ersten Teil von <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013204 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118522396\">Bernhard Cotta</persName>s „Briefe über Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/Z9FLIZBH\">Cotta 1848–1860</bibl>, I, 22–27) beigegebene Karte unseres Sonnensystems, die unter anderem ein Schema der „wahren Größe der Planeten im Verhältnis zur Sonne“ enthält. </note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.21	p	Vous voyez que je me suis bien occupé de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />demande: âgé presque de 80 ans je continuerai à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />donner mes conseils au Professeur <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>, mais mon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />âge, ma position, mes travaux ne me permettent aucune<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment de me mêler de la rédaction, de revoir ou d’exa<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />miner le manuscrit ou les cartes, — d’en être le Mini<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />stre responsable! Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName> n’est pas en état de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rédiger en français ou en anglais quoiqu’il possède <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parfaitement les deux langues; il fera traduire ici (s’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le faut absolument) son manuscrit en français, mais il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />serait bien désirable que 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> puisse se servir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />d’un manuscrit allemand.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.22	p	J’ose vous prier de correspondre <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">directement</hi> sur<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"48\" />tous ces points douteux non avec moi, mais avec Mr. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName> en anglais: il vous répondra en françois à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous ou à 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>. Le plus simple seroit de faire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passer les lettres par <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">Kew</placeName> et de les diriger à <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Mr. le <lb />Professeur <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName> à <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">Potsdam</placeName></hi>. Mon séjour change <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trop souvent.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.23	p	Je consulte à Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>, qui est très actif, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aussi actif qu’instruit, de commencer l’ouvrage même <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avant votre première réponse.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.24	p	Il désire un premier payement de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"50\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">50 £ Sterl.</measure>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lorsqu’il a envoyé à Mr. votre <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">père</persName> à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">Kew</placeName> 7 à 8 feuil<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />les de texte et 4 cartes. Les payemens ne se feront <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jamais par moi, mais directement par votre excellent <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/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">père</persName> à Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>. C’est le galvanisme qui attaque <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce prose de la vie.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.25	p	Si je demande la correspondance directe avec Mr. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>, ce n’est pas pour être privé de vos aimables <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lettres !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.26	p	Veuillez bien décider si vous aimez mieux de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />diminuer le nombre des Cartes physiques.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.27	p	Pourrez-vous lire mes infusoires?','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.1	head	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#b\">a. de humboldt à mr. <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">joseph dalton hooker</persname>, <lb />à <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005548 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">dorjeeling</placename> (<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikhim</placename> <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>).</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.2	p	vous connaissez assez, mon cher monsieur hooker, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l\'amitié et la haute estime que je vous ai voués pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pouvoir douter un instant du plaisir que j’ai éprouvé<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"40\" />en recevant de vous un souvenir aussi affectueux et si <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />riche en observations importantes. vos deux lettres <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en date du <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020421\"><date when=\"1848-07-25\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">25 juillet</date></ref> et du <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020373\"><date when=\"1848-08-09\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">9 août</date></ref> me sont arrivées <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec cette rapidité qui surprend, et qui prouve les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />progrès inouis de l’art de la navigation !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.3	p	les tristes agitations politiques de mon <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044\">pays</placename> et ma <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />position auprès du <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">roi</persname> me forcent de vous offrir plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laconiquement que je voudrois le faire l’hommage de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ma vive reconnaissance et d’un attachement héréditaire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour son objet, puisqu’il date du voyage de votre ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />cellent père en <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006739 https://www.geonames.org/2629691\">islande</placename> et de la bienveillance qu’il a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daigné me montrer en publiant mes <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"cryptogamen\">cryptogames</name> des <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/h0002454\">andes</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.4	p	j’ai une qualité morale qui n’est pas commun par<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mi les voyageurs et dont j’aime a me vanter: je jouis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la gloire et des succès de mes amis. jugez par <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la combien je me plais à l’idée qu’avec la variété de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connaissances et de vues que vous avez acquises, mon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sieur, aidés des conseils du plus savant et du plus ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />périmenté des scrutateurs de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>, mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous puissiez pénétrer en avant vers les pentes du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchinjinga</placename> que vous nous avez fait connaître. la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesure trigonométrique de cette cime — (donnez-nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le nom de celui qui a mesuré récemment le <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\" />jinga</placename> et le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename>!), vos communications géologi<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ques et botaniques, celles qui ont rapport au cours du <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\">dzangbo-tchou</placename> (<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006724\">irawaddy</placename> <metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) et la limite des neiges nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont vivement intéressé mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130x\">ritter</persname> et moi.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.5	p	j’ai été en particulier très-sensible au suffrage im<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />portant que le savant 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> a donné aux parties<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"41\" />principales de mon ouvrage sur l’<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"be25be71-2419-4e7b-a5be-712419be7b4b\" corresp=\"#bc615e46-8679-42d9-a15e-468679b2d9ae\" type=\"editorialnote\">asie centrale</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bc615e46-8679-42d9-a15e-468679b2d9ae\" corresp=\"#be25be71-2419-4e7b-a5be-712419be7b4b\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843.</bibl></note>. quand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous ajoutez un dissentiment sur l’opinion que j’ai eu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’audace d’exprimer que la continuation de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-<lb break=\"no\" />kho</placename> à l’est du croisement de la chaîne méridionale du <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> et le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">kouen-lun</placename> et non l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> (le dernier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />offrant un changement <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">d’allure</hi> se—no. (entre 74° et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />82° de long. de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010917 https://www.geonames.org/2647937\">greenwich</placename>)<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> je pense que ce dissentiment <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />se fonde plutôt à des notions de volume et de hauteur, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à des idées hypsométriques, qu’à ces vues de la géologie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moderne, qui met le plus d’importance à la continuité <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de direction d’une même fente, sur laquelle une chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de montagnes a été soulevée. or dans une chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de montagnes la connaissance des latitudes me paraît <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />un argument de la plus haute importance: j’aurois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dit un argument décisif, si je ne parlois pas à des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hommes, qui sont sur les lieux et qui forment des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />combinaisons, qui ont pu m’échapper.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.6	p	vous dites, mon excellent ami, que mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et vous-même vous continuez à regarder l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comme <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">„the dividing chain“</foreign>: certes elle est par son <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />élévation continue, sa crête c. à d. la série de mon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tagnes colossales, placées généralement e—o. de long. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />82° à 97° en traversant semblable au <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005299\">bolor</placename> les chaînes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />méridionales (dirigées n—s.) qui causent la grande <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sinuosité du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">dzangbo-tchou</placename> et déterminent la forme de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la péninsule de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008607\">malacca</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.7	p	ii est très-probable qu’à l’est du méridien de <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/h0020611 https://www.geonames.org/1280502\">tengri-noor</placename> (long. 90°) la direction e—0. du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">kouen<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lun</placename> est moins marquée que celle e—0. de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui recommence en <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">chine</placename> à l’est du croisement (long.<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"42\" />97°—103°) du système de chaînes méridionales: mais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la latitude, les parallèles de 35° 3′ et de 35° 22′ qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />suit la fente de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-kho</placename> diffère bien essentiellement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la latitude moyenne de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> (lat. 28° à 29°) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’est du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename>, pour ne pas chercher la conti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nuation de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-kho</placename> plus au nord.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.8	p	c’est comme dans les filons que par un change<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment d’allure que l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> se lie dans le nœud du <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/h0008047\">thsoung-ling</placename> à l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-kho</placename> (<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cb8110e5-6f9b-4f04-8110-e56f9bbf04b9\" corresp=\"#e5dd12b7-4ce4-41de-9d12-b74ce471dede\" type=\"editorialnote\">asie centrale, p. xxii, <lb />p. 124–133, 205–207,</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e5dd12b7-4ce4-41de-9d12-b74ce471dede\" corresp=\"#cb8110e5-6f9b-4f04-8110-e56f9bbf04b9\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>, i, xxii, 124–133 und 205–207 (dt. ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dv9ud9gw\">humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872001\">i, 7 </ref>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872091\">i, 97–102</ref> und <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872135\">i, 141–143</ref>).</note> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c609675c-a141-4519-8967-5ca1418519c6\" corresp=\"#b30260c0-2f87-4d69-8260-c02f87bd69fd\" type=\"editorialnote\">t. ii, p. 367, p. 414–435</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b30260c0-2f87-4d69-8260-c02f87bd69fd\" corresp=\"#c609675c-a141-4519-8967-5ca1418519c6\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>, ii, 367 und 414–435 (dt. ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dv9ud9gw\">humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872571\">i, 572</ref> und <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872597\">i, 598–609</ref>).</note>). <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je désire beaucoup que ce point important soit un jour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />discuté publiquement par 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>, dont la bien<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />veillance me rassure et l’autorité est si grande. la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />chaîne occidentale des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">alpes</placename> présente aussi, comme l’a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prouvé <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005901 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116098627\">Élie de beaumont</persname>, près du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008955 https://www.geonames.org/3181986\">mont-blanc</placename> un <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />changement d’allure, la direction des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020677 https://www.geonames.org/3173906\">alpes maritimes</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />étant presque n—s.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.9	p	nous avions cru jusqu’ici que les deux plus hautes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cimes de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> étaient le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename> et le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">dja<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />wahir</placename>, en donnant au premier <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">28,077 piés anglais</measure> ou <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26345\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">26,345 piés de roi</measure> (ancienne mesure françoise), au <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />second <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">25,749 piés anglais</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26345\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">24,160 piés françois</measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013123 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116636688\">colebrooke</persname> (<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a1d45d97-c096-4f41-945d-97c0960f41ef\" corresp=\"#c5b9ef38-25a1-4f45-b9ef-3825a15f457f\" type=\"editorialnote\">asie centrale, t. iii, p. 283</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c5b9ef38-25a1-4f45-b9ef-3825a15f457f\" corresp=\"#a1d45d97-c096-4f41-945d-97c0960f41ef\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>, iii, 283 (dt. ausgabe: <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dv9ud9gw\">humboldt 1844</bibl>, <ref target=\"https://www.e-rara.ch/6872880\">ii, 178</ref>).</note>) regardoit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la mesure du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename> comme peu certaine. or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comme le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchinjinga</placename> a <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28178\" unit=\"foot\">28,178 piés anglais</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"26438\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">26,438 <lb />piés françois</measure> et que vous dites que <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchinjinga</placename> est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la plus haute cime <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">après le <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename></hi>, ce dernier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doit avoir plus de hauteur que les <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"28077\" unit=\"foot\">28,077 feet</measure> qu’on <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lui a assignés jusqu’ici. vous m’obligerez beaucoup en<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"43\" />me communiquant le résultat de la nouvelle et dernière <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesure du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1.1	item	le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020521 https://www.geonames.org/3914282\">sorata</placename> n’a plus que <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21286\" unit=\"foot\">21,286 p. angl.</measure> (6497<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">m</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19972\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">19,972 p. fr.</measure>)<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>,</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.10.1.2	item	l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006668 https://www.geonames.org/3914272\">illimani</placename> n’a plus que <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21149\" unit=\"foot\">21,149 p. angl.</measure> (6446<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">m</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19843\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">19843 p. fr.</measure>)<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.11	p	ll y a donc une erreur sur le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020521 https://www.geonames.org/3914282\">sorata</placename> de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3716\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">3716</measure>, sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006668 https://www.geonames.org/3914272\">illimani</placename> de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2675\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">2675 piés françois</measure> !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.12	p	il est cruel, que mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001850 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116077468\">pentland</persname>, qui est un géologue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />très-spirituel et instruit ne nous ait pas révélé cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />étrange erreur plutôt !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.13	p	voilà donc mon <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007391 https://www.geonames.org/3659238\">chimborazo</placename> de nouveau la plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />haute cime des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002454\">andes</placename>. c’est une dynastie restaurée! <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tous les livres de géographie physique, tous les profils <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />géologiques et hypsométriques ont été empestés depuis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />18 ans de ces fausses mesures. mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001850 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116077468\">pentland</persname> m’écrit <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"44\" />de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">paris</placename> que ayant été envoyé par le gouvernement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deux fois en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1827\">1827</date> et <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1838\">1838</date> à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005296 https://www.geonames.org/3923057\">bolivia</placename>, les opérations tri<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gonométriques, faites en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1838\">1838</date> lui ont prouvé que ses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />premières opérations de <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1827\">1827</date>, communiquées à sa 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\" />mande en <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1830\">1830</date> par m. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012670 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118847767\">arago</persname>, étoient inexactes à cause <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la petitesse de sa base.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.1	item	1) à la géographie proprement dite, mappemondes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />divisions de provinces;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.2	item	2) aux chaînes de montagnes et de rivières;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.3	item	3) à l’ethnographie;\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.4	item	4) à la géographie des plantes et —\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.14.1.5	item	5) des animaux.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.15	p	vous désirez aussi des esquisses sur les courans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aériens et pélagiques, mes lignes isothermes et la géolo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gie (sans doute la superposition des formations).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.16	p	on veut rémunérer l’auteur de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"100\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">100</measure> ou <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"150\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">150 £ sterl.</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />payable en <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">angleterre</placename> quand le manuscrit sera livré <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec le dessin des cartes. c’est une affaire. il faut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />donc, mon cher ami, que je suivisse bien exactement ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que désire 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>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.17	p	mon choix est facile à fixer. je dois vous propo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser un <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">savant</persname>, dont les nombreux travaux publiés 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\" />puis plus de 25 ans (des manuels de géographie, les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />belles cartes de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">inde insulaire</placename> etc., l’<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c3559b65-70a9-4f22-959b-6570a96f227a\" corresp=\"#b19e3b0e-7657-412b-9e3b-0e7657312ba3\" type=\"editorialnote\">atlas physique, <lb />illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural <lb />phenomena relating to geology, hydrography, meteoro<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />logy and natural history</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b19e3b0e-7657-412b-9e3b-0e7657312ba3\" corresp=\"#c3559b65-70a9-4f22-959b-6570a96f227a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ftvuqdqa\">berghaus 1845–1848.</bibl></note> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d1849c6d-3814-40ce-849c-6d381490ce8e\" corresp=\"#fcafbd54-9300-4e06-afbd-5493000e0630\" type=\"editorialnote\">traduit et considérablement aug<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />menté</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fcafbd54-9300-4e06-afbd-5493000e0630\" corresp=\"#d1849c6d-3814-40ce-849c-6d381490ce8e\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/aqbtkses\">johnston 1848.</bibl></note> par <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004177 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117677566\">johnston</persname> à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005589 https://www.geonames.org/2650225\">edinburgh</placename>) ont été honorable<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment appréciés en <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044\">allemagne</placename>, en <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">angleterre</placename> et en <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/h0004801 https://www.geonames.org/3017382\">france</placename>. je parle du professeur <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>, directeur de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020406 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1085940675\">institut géographique</orgname> établi à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">potsdam</placename>. il accepte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la proposition en fixant la rémunération à <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"150\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">cent cinquante <lb />livres sterling</measure>, à cause d’autres travaux littéraires, que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce travail lui fera négliger.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.18	p	j’ai discuté très-sérieusement avec lui la nature de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce travail, qui doit être correct, simple, pas verbeux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de style, très exact dans les chiffres, tout réduit en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mesures anglaises, therm. de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000022 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118685783\">fahrenheit</persname>, milles anglaises, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en adoptant les notions géographiques à l’intérêt asiati<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />que et anglo-européen, l’intérêt de métropole et des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />colonies (possessions anglaises).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.19	p	il faut fixer le nombre des feuilles à imprimer et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le nombre des cartes physiques et géographiques. nous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avons pensé que quinze feuilles d’impression suffiront. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous voudrez bien dire, s’il en faut jusqu’à 20 feuilles, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cela a de l’importance pour l’étendue des divers articles. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le nombre des cartes seroit mieux de 11 ou 12 que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 8. la grandeur convenable serait de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">16 inches</measure> <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">in <lb />length</foreign> et de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10.5\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">10 ½ inches</measure> <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">in hight</foreign>. cela seroit un in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">quarto</hi> allongé. ii faut éviter de ne pas plier les<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"46\" />cartes. si vous ne voulez pas que les cartes fassent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />un cahier séparé, on pourrait imprimer le texte sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trois colonnes à chaque page.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.1	item	a) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">géographie proprement dite:</hi> — deux mappe<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mondes, dont une projection de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020797 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118580973\">mercator</persname> plus favorable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour les notions météorologiques de diversité de climats <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par les mêmes latitudes. — une carte de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europe</placename></hi>, — <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asie</placename> entière</hi>, — une de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">l’<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">inde</placename></hi> seulement jus<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />qu’au parallèle du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">jawahir</placename> vers lat. 31° (<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000378 https://www.geonames.org/1440268\">cachmir</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">la<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dak</placename>, le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008478 https://www.geonames.org/1167710\">pendjab</placename>, le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">manassorowar</placename>, la courbure du <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\">dzangbo-tchou</placename> pourront être vus comme le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-kho</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur la carte générale de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asie</placename>). il faut conserver de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la place pour le pays au sud de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> entre 80° <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et 97° de long. — cela fait 5 cartes géographiques.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.2	item	b) il reste pour les cartes physiques:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.3	item	6) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">chaînes de montagne</hi> sous le rapport hypsomé<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />trique des cimes et des plateaux, profils de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002454\">andes</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">alpes</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008509 https://www.geonames.org/3112616\">pyrénées</placename>; neiges perpétuelles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />peut-être avec les détails de ma carte dans le livre: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e195a00a-5b2d-4685-95a0-0a5b2da685d0\" corresp=\"#e2cb8b59-6302-442c-8b8b-596302b42cf3\" type=\"editorialnote\">de distributione geographica plantarum 1817</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e2cb8b59-6302-442c-8b8b-596302b42cf3\" corresp=\"#e195a00a-5b2d-4685-95a0-0a5b2da685d0\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/5bij6mm2\">humboldt 1817.</bibl> die karte findet sich am <ref target=\"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50700218\">ende des buches.</ref></note>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.4	item	7) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">carte des courants dans les mers</hi> avec <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><hi rendition=\"#g\">quelques</hi> <lb />lignes isothermes</hi> seulement pour faire comprendre le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sens des sommets concaves et convexes, côtes orientales <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et occidentales, décroissement du <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">calorique</add> sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />montagnes.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.5	item	8) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">zones de plantes</hi>, surtout les cultures.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.6	item	9) <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">distribution géographique des animaux.</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les figures de plantes célèbres par la culture et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les figures des animaux ne doivent pas être sur les<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"47\" />cartes comme au moyen âge: ces figures (dessins liné<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />aires non ombrés) formeront en bandes (arabesques) le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cadre des cartes 8 et 9.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.7	item	10) les <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">courbes magnétiques</hi> de déclinaison, d’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\" />clinaison et d’intensité seulement quelques-unes, pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />comprendre leur valeur, les maxima et minima, les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">lignes sans déclinaison</hi>, l’intersection de l’équateur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />magnétique avec l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002500\">équateur géographique</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.8	item	11) <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bbdecf04-22b5-47c6-9ecf-0422b527c6a2\" corresp=\"#cdee1f2f-217e-499e-ae1f-2f217e499e8f\" type=\"editorialnote\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">races d’hommes</hi>, seulement l’ancien continent</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cdee1f2f-217e-499e-ae1f-2f217e499e8f\" corresp=\"#bbdecf04-22b5-47c6-9ecf-0422b527c6a2\" type=\"editorial\">humboldt war die karte von berghaus über die verteilung von menschenrassen in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europa</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asien</placename> bekannt (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ftvuqdqa\">berghaus 1845–1848</bibl>, s. 146–147). sie entsteht in dieser zeit und dürfte humboldt bei vorschlag dieser karte im hinterkopf gehabt haben.</note>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />placé de manière à donner une partie de la <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010384 https://www.geonames.org/4030483\">mer du <lb />sud</placename> vers la <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456\">nouvelle hollande</placename> (projection de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020797 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118580973\">mercator</persname>).\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.20.1.9	item	12) une petite équisse du <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">monde planétaire</hi> actuel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lement connu des cercles jusqu’à neptune, mais seule<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment deux des astéroïdes, cérès et irès ou flore, pour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ne pas rendre le dessin confus. a côté les vrais dia<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mètres jusqu’à uranus et neptune, <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c1db5226-5169-4aec-9b52-2651695aecb5\" corresp=\"#f82b3709-d9c7-4702-ab37-09d9c74702ac\" type=\"editorialnote\">d’après la belle et <lb />toute nouvelle carte planétaire de <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013204 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118522396\">bernhard cotton</persname>.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f82b3709-d9c7-4702-ab37-09d9c74702ac\" corresp=\"#c1db5226-5169-4aec-9b52-2651695aecb5\" type=\"editorial\">gemeint ist die dem fünften brief im ersten teil von <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013204 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118522396\">bernhard cotta</persname>s „briefe über alexander von humboldt’s kosmos“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/z9flizbh\">cotta 1848–1860</bibl>, i, 22–27) beigegebene karte unseres sonnensystems, die unter anderem ein schema der „wahren größe der planeten im verhältnis zur sonne“ enthält. </note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.21	p	vous voyez que je me suis bien occupé de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />demande: âgé presque de 80 ans je continuerai à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />donner mes conseils au professeur <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>, mais mon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />âge, ma position, mes travaux ne me permettent aucune<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ment de me mêler de la rédaction, de revoir ou d’exa<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />miner le manuscrit ou les cartes, — d’en être le mini<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />stre responsable! mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname> n’est pas en état de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rédiger en français ou en anglais quoiqu’il possède <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parfaitement les deux langues; il fera traduire ici (s’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le faut absolument) son manuscrit en français, mais il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />serait bien désirable que 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> puisse se servir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />d’un manuscrit allemand.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.22	p	j’ose vous prier de correspondre <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">directement</hi> sur<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"48\" />tous ces points douteux non avec moi, mais avec mr. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname> en anglais: il vous répondra en françois à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous ou à 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>. le plus simple seroit de faire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passer les lettres par <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">kew</placename> et de les diriger à <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">mr. le <lb />professeur <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname> à <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">potsdam</placename></hi>. mon séjour change <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trop souvent.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.23	p	je consulte à mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>, qui est très actif, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aussi actif qu’instruit, de commencer l’ouvrage même <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avant votre première réponse.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.24	p	il désire un premier payement de <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"50\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">50 £ sterl.</measure>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lorsqu’il a envoyé à mr. votre <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">père</persname> à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">kew</placename> 7 à 8 feuil<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />les de texte et 4 cartes. les payemens ne se feront <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jamais par moi, mais directement par votre excellent <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/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">père</persname> à mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>. c’est le galvanisme qui attaque <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce prose de la vie.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.25	p	si je demande la correspondance directe avec mr. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>, ce n’est pas pour être privé de vos aimables <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lettres !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.26	p	veuillez bien décider si vous aimez mieux de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />diminuer le nombre des cartes physiques.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020422:1.27	p	pourrez-vous lire mes infusoires?');
INSERT INTO `workurnstructuretext` VALUES ('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.1	p	My correspondence has inevitably <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fallen into such confusion for the last 12 months, & so many of my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />letters have been lost, that I am almost afraid to think how long <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a time may have elapsed, since you heard from me: – much longer, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I know it is, than it ought to have been, under any circumstances, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />especially as I have never thanked you for the distinguished place <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you are said to have given to my name in your new Edition of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a\" corresp=\"#d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b\" type=\"editorialNote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">Aspects of Nature</hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b\" corresp=\"#a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/MU3FGUXF\">Humboldt 1849a</bibl>.</note>. My copy of this work has not reached me, but <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I am well aware that I ought to be very grateful, & to feel highly hon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ored. I have very much to thank you for, during many years.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">1.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28148\" unit=\"foot\">28,148. feet.</measure> (accurately measured.)</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">2.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">A Mountain in about <lb />86°. 30′ <choice> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>Long.</abbr> <expan>Longitude</expan> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">3.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain-Than</placeName></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.4	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">4.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dwhalgiri</placeName><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.3	p	The <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0664069 https://d-nb.info/gnd/141590483\">Deputy-Surveyor-<choice> <abbr>Gen<hi rendition=\"#sup\">l</hi>.</abbr> <expan>General</expan> </choice> (<choice> <abbr>Ca<del rendition=\"#s\"><unclear cert=\"high\" reason=\"covered\">p</unclear></del>pt.</abbr> <expan>Captain</expan> </choice> Thuillier)</persName> is an intimate friend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of mine; but he can give no information, his <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Principal</persName> not having for<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />warded any results, or data, to the Office at <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName>. Probably I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have already told you the same as is detailed above; I know no more. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />The Mountain, Nº. 2, I have repeatedly seen: it divides the Rivers<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"302v\" /> <fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">2</fw><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Kosi</placeName>, & is visible from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjeeling</placeName> & elsewhere.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.4	p	You are aware of my visit to two <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>an Passes, in Eastern <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepaul</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the West of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName>, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notBefore=\"1848-11-01\" notAfter=\"1848-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>Nov.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> & <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notBefore=\"1848-12-01\" notAfter=\"1848-12-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>Dec.</abbr> <expan>December</expan> </choice> 1848</date>, & of my protracted <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />residence on the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> frontier, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notBefore=\"1849-06-01\" notAfter=\"1849-06-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">June</date>, & my subsequent visit to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />5 other Passes, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notBefore=\"1849-10-01\" notAfter=\"1849-10-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>Oct</abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice></date> & <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notBefore=\"1849-11-01\" notAfter=\"1849-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice> 1849</date>. During the latter Excursion, <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">Dr. <lb />Campbell</persName> joined me, & we were eventually imprisoned by the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354\">Rajah</persName>, his Counsellors &c. Our lives were threatened & <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. <choice> <abbr>C.</abbr> <expan>Campbell</expan> </choice></persName> had a most <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />narrow escape & was treated with great barbarity.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.5	p	I had <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">previously</add> visited <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> & spent some days North of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28°., discovering <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the source of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun River</placeName>, which flows from the West 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/H5697072\">Kamtchoo Lakes</placeName>, behind <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName>, to its exit from the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>M<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepaul</placeName>. From what I saw, & from the very full information which <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I collected, I am now convinced that the Snowed <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">s</supplied> do not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />form an individual Mountain-Chain; but that they consist of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupes</orig> <reg>groups</reg> </choice> of snowy Peaks, widely separated from one another, & are parts, or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Meridional Spurs of a far more lofty range of Mountains, between the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great Masses of Snow, & the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou-Tsamper river</placeName>. The Southern <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water shed is behind all the snows, often ½ a degree & more; & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>an frontier runs along the line of watershed behind, as often as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along the ridges of Snow. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> & the snow, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is, as you have well described it, a lofty rugged & quite impractica<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ble country; though none of the Peaks, North of the watershed on that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Line, reach the elevation of the snowy ones.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.1	item	1. A <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>Groupe</orig> <reg>Group</reg> </choice>, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>long.</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice> 93<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>° (which I am now measuring) dividing 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/H9547661 https://www.geonames.org/1255591\">Soubanshiri</placeName> from the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9690492\">Monass</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.2	item	2. A <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupe</orig> <reg>group</reg> </choice> I am also observing between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9690492\">Monass</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.3	item	3. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari <choice> <orig>Groupe</orig> <reg>Group</reg> </choice></placeName>, between <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H4316428\">Matchoo</placeName>, which rises North <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.4	item	4. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">Donkiah</placeName> (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000</measure>) which I have visited, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H4316428\">Matchoo</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Lachen <add place=\"superlinear\">or Teesta</add></placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.5	item	5. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Teesta</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.6	item	6. The Peak (previously mentioned) in 86.° 30,′ between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Kosi</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.7	item	7. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain-Than</placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Kosi</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7753649\">Gundule</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.8	item	8. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dwhalgiri</placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7753649\">Gundule</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6164791 https://www.geonames.org/1271404\">Gogra</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.9	item	9. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">Jewahir</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">Mansarovar</placeName>. <metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.7	p	The unsnowed space, between <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N<hi rendition=\"#sup\">os</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Numbers</expan> </choice> 5 & 6, is very great. East of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">1</hi>, both the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">ceases</hi> & the lower ranges sink greatly. I am now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nearly due South of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">1</hi>, (<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> 10.° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice>) & see the horizon, to 30.° East, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />without a snowy Peak or Elevation. The Snow commences again, East <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Dihong</placeName>, which I do not doubt is the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Brahmapootra</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Ya<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rou</placeName>. All the Rivers, mentioned above, as between the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupes</orig> <reg>groups</reg> </choice> of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Snows, have their sources in a small, well defined Range, South 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/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName>. That range forms the boundary of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepaul</placeName>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">West</hi> of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain-Than</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />– it <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">did</hi> form the boundary <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">East</hi> of it, before the war between <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepaul</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/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>. East of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain-Than</placeName>, there is no natural boundary; except <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />where the Spurs of the mountains, East & West of the exit 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/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName>, constitute one. The <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> Boundary of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> is <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kin<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />chin-Junga</placeName>, to the West; & the range between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Lachoong & Teesta</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, – <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">which is</add> a westerly Spur from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">Donkiah</placeName>, which last runs South for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"40\" unit=\"mile\">40 miles</measure>, in a snowy Meridional Range, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> does so, too; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the Chinese have drawn the Line, South from the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>East<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Eastern</expan> </choice> flank 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/H0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">Donkiah</placeName>, for as many <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">make</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">miles</add> </subst>, & then North again, from the West <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flank of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName>. This <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">V-shaped</hi> bit includes great 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/H4316428\">Machoo</placeName>’s Course, & the Town of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5785409 https://www.geonames.org/1280354\">Pari</placeName>: it is interposed between <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/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName>. The <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName> Valley is as low as <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6,000 feet</measure> in the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"303v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">4</fw>latitude of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName>, & looking from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> East, I could discern no <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snow between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> & the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>groupe</sic> <corr>group</corr> </choice> East of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName>. This last <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Groupe</sic> <corr>Group</corr> </choice> I also see from these Mountains where I now am<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">distant</hi> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"210\" unit=\"mile\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">210</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">mile<supplied cert=\"high\">s</supplied></hi></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& I calculate its elevation at near <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000 feet</measure>; – from both stations.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.8	p	When I was in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28.° 10<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>′</reg> </choice> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</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>Long.</abbr> <expan>Longitude</expan> </choice> 88.° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice>, I took Angles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with a Theodolite, from a mountain, <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500</measure> above the Sea, on the Sou<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">th</supplied><g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ern flank of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> valley. The ranges, to the north of me, were no<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />where below that elevation; but they did not rise above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"22000\" unit=\"foot\">22,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Eastward I saw <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">three</hi> Meridional ranges, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">i. e.</hi> that of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> East, & 2 others, each of which came from a lofty mounta<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">in</supplied><g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />land, & were connected with a beautiful snowy range, about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"80\" unit=\"mile\">80 mi<supplied cert=\"high\">les</supplied></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> East, & which I believe separated the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H1460789\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">U</hi> & Tsang Provinces</placeName> <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">of</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>. North West of me was the course of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName>, & beyond it, <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">a</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very lofty range, rising to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"25000\" unit=\"foot\">25,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, which took a Southerly direction <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />forming the Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah <choice> <sic>Groupe</sic> <corr>Group</corr> </choice></placeName>, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Kosi</placeName> (or th<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />West of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> This line of watershed is a physical feature, we<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">ll</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recognized by the Thibetans: between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> it is called <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7654941\">Dingchaun Province</placeName>, & sometimes <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7654941\">Damtsen</placeName>. The Inhabitants are <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">very</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />black: they rear shawl <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">wool</add> goats & Yaks, & are a most turbulent rac<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of robbers, detested as savage cattle stealers, or worse, by the Sikkimi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">tes,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Nepalese & Thibetans. To us they were uncouth, rude, & boisterous, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />could only be kept in order by great bullying. They opposed my cross<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">ing</supplied> <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/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & I owe them a heavy grudge for breaking my Azimuth <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Compass, though I believe the mischief was caused by accident & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />awkwardness, rather than deliberate ill-will.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.1	item	1. That, West of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName>, on which is <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.2	item	2. That, East of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>, with <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">Donkiah</placeName> on it.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.3	item	3. That, bounding the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> on the South.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.4	item	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>– with <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName> (4.)</sic> <corr>4. That, bounding the <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> with <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-Junga</placeName>.</corr> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.5	item	5. The axis, running <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice>, between the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">Paunom</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3394287\">Painom</placeName></add> </subst> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName> & then <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.W</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.6	item	6. The <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H2203411\">Odoo <choice> <abbr>M<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice></placeName> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) running <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.E.</abbr> <expan>South East</expan> </choice> between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9690492\">Monass</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.10	p	The rivers are (1) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H4316428\">Ma<add place=\"intralinear\">t</add>choo</placeName> (2)<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>S.W.</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice> the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Teesta</placeName>. (3) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">Arun</placeName>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(4) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3394287\">Painom</placeName>. (5)<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>N.E.</abbr> <expan>North East</expan> </choice> –<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>– (6<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>S.E.</abbr> <expan>South East</expan> </choice> the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6597369\">Patchion</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.11	p	The mean Elevation of this tract is <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure>: – nothing will <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ripen there. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">Digarchi</placeName> is in about the Latitude & Longitude that <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">Turner</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />assigns to it: there the crops ripen only under the shelter of, & favo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />red by the radiation from, the black rocks of the flanks of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3394287\">Pai<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />nom</placeName> Valley, & its Tributaries: – the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Juglans\">Wallnut</name></hi> grows, but neither it nor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Prunus persica\">Peach</name></hi> ripen fruit, & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Salix\">Willow</name></hi> is the only <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#uu\">tree</hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>. –</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> it is from <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"8\" unit=\"foot\">8</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12\" unit=\"foot\">12 feet</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />high.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.12	p	The result of all the oral information I gained about the nat<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"high\">u</unclear>r</del> <add place=\"across\">iv</add> </subst>e <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the cultiva<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">tion</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <orig>-</orig> <reg /> </choice>ted vegetation</add> </subst> of this region lead me to assume its elevation at <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14,000 feet</measure>; & the mean Temperature <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">of <choice> <abbr>Oct<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice></add> (fide <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">Turner</persName>) gives the same, <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">calculated</add> at <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the rate of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" unit=\"fahrenheit\" quantity=\"1\">1°. degree of <choice> <abbr>Fahr.</abbr> <expan>Fahrenheit</expan> </choice></measure> = <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"400\" unit=\"foot\">400 feet</measure><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice>, which, from a multitude of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />observations on the air & sunk Thermometer<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">s</del> (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"foot\">3 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>) contemporaneously <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with others, at <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjeeling</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName>, I have found to be the decrement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for altitudes above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1,000 feet</measure>, North of the Snows.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> In <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e8c5bf17-e254-4dc8-85bf-17e2544dc820\" corresp=\"#b97a2ca9-7339-465e-ba2c-a97339865e27\" type=\"editorialNote\">„Asie <lb />Centrale“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b97a2ca9-7339-465e-ba2c-a97339865e27\" corresp=\"#e8c5bf17-e254-4dc8-85bf-17e2544dc820\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>.</note> you perhaps assume <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">Turner</persName>’s <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Oct.</abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice> Temperature of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">Digarchi</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for that of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> Of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName> I have many good accounts. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Vitis\">Grapes</name></hi> do not ripen there, but are imported. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Prunus persica\">Peaches</name><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> <name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Salix\">Willow</name> & <name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Juglans\">Wallnut</name></hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />thrive well, whether as regards wood or fruit, but no other Tree. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Dromedar\">Dromedaries</name> abound. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName> is a poor place, after all that has been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />said of it: the census is small (I forget what<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> The accounts of those <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />who have & who have not seen such a Town as <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0551618 https://www.geonames.org/1259166\">Purneah</placeName> in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">Bengal</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are sufficiently different & instructive.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> The <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> is navigable for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Skin Boats, in the rainy season, from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9231633 https://www.geonames.org/1281119\">Giantchi</placeName> to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">Digarchi</placeName>, & 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/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">Digarchi</placeName> to the meridian of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName>; but the course is very tortuous: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />it flows, between lofty mountain ranges, far East of the great Lake (I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />forget its proper name, not Yarbongh, as it is called on the Maps): it is<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"304v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">6</fw>certainly very large, but the Island is small, towards the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.W.</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice> angle. <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/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> trends South, & the country is warm, producing the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Morus\">Mulberry</name> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& some say Silk & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Oryza\">Rice</name>. Every Thibetan describes the people near the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bend<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> as atrocious Savages, dwelling in mountainous woods, bordering <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>: they are the A<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">r</del>bors & Bor-A<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">r</del>bors, of course. There the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(they say) enters the Mountains, & flows <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> to the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Brahma-pootra</placeName>. The stream <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is there too rapid to admit of navigation & the inhabitants of its banks <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are too savage. East of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName>, by <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H137183\">Towang</placeName>, there is no snow, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">en route</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">Assam</placeName> to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Juniperus\">Juniper</name> grows to the mountain-tops. The Rivers, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from a little way South of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName>, flow to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">Assam</placeName>; <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">N</del> <add place=\"across\">n</add> </subst>or is the boundary <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of East <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName> well-defined. All the various information<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> which I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gained respecting the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName>, was to the same import, & my informants <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />were very numerous. The best was a well-educated Monk, who was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brought up at <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a7a743c9-81f6-4f93-a743-c981f6df9381\" corresp=\"#d7873b14-667b-49f6-873b-14667b79f663\" type=\"editorialNote\">Mendoling</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d7873b14-667b-49f6-873b-14667b79f663\" corresp=\"#a7a743c9-81f6-4f93-a743-c981f6df9381\" type=\"editorial\">Hier handelt es sich vermutlich um das Kloster <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7239222\">Mindrölling</placeName> in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H1460789\">Zentraltibet</placeName>.</note>, a Goompta, 2 days South of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName>, situ<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ated on a river, flowing to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H137183\">Towang</placeName>, & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">Assam</placeName>, 5 days off. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7995962\">Menchona</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is the Mart of that quarter, & the only great one East of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5785409 https://www.geonames.org/1280354\">Pari</placeName>. North <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> is the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Salz\">Salt</name>-country, lofty, rugged, barren & inhospitable to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />last degree. The <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Yak\">Yak</name> cannot proceed beyond a few marches North 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/H3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">Digarchi</placeName>, & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Schaf\">sheep</name> are almost the only Beasts of burthen, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">except Men</hi>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.13	p	Respecting the Physical features of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Eastern <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName></hi>, its manners, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">customs</hi> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />agriculture, religion, &c, I gleaned many particulars; but I fear they would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />only weary you. Your general account is admirable. Plains, as you say, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are but local features, & very limited ones: – the country is one of stupen<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />dous, rugged mountain-chains, – & not of Plains or Table Land. The <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flat-floored valleys & scarped-flanked Mountains are of comparati<unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">vel</unclear>y <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uniform elevation above the Sea, but widely variable as to their height <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the valleys, giving to <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>East<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Eastern</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> a very different look from the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>. The absence of snow & wood completes the illusion; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& as you truly remark, the Traveller, who suddenly comes upon the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />features of an open country, the access to which begins abruptly, is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very apt to be deceived (in its elevation): the Theodolite alone can<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"305r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">7</fw>dispel the error.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> The Line of Perpetual Snow is about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 feet</measure>, where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the masses of the Mountains first rise so high; it gradually rises with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the increasing height of the land to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19000\" unit=\"foot\">19,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, – & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19500\" unit=\"foot\">19,500</measure> is the lowest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mean Level, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Lat.</abbr> <expan>Latitude</expan> </choice> 28°. 30′, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Long.</abbr> <expan>Longitude</expan> </choice> 88<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">°</supplied> East, – & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000</measure> in the same Longitude <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Lat.</abbr> <expan>Latitude</expan> </choice> 27°. 30′.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> I have seen well-defined patches lower down on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />South flanks of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> Glaciers abound, but not towards the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Southern limits of the Perpetual Snow, where the mountains are too <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rugged.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.14	p	It is a remarkable fact that every River Valley which I have ascended <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opens out & becomes broad & flat-floored, at about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,000 feet</measure>: it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />becomes imper<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">f</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>eptibly more & more so as you ascend; & when it has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />conducted you above the limits of clouds, rain & snow, it gradually <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />becomes drier, barren & more Thibetan.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.15	p	The Average Rain-fall at <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjeeling</placeName> is <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"120\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">120 inches</measure>, & it is progressively <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />less in the Interior till the mountains reach to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 feet</measure>, when the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quantity of rain suddenly diminishes.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.16	p	The first Snow descends on the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />September, & does not always melt. In <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> the Snow Line descends <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Oct.</abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice>, – in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> not till December. In the drier mountain parts, again <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />it melts up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. In <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, as far North as <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3828425\">Kiong-lah</placeName>, snow <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />often falls in the end of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Aug<hi rendition=\"#sup\">t</hi>.</abbr> <expan>August</expan> </choice> & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Sept.</abbr> <expan>September</expan> </choice> every year, & melts again to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19000\" unit=\"foot\">19,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. As the Rains are not over till <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Oct.</abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice>, the sporadic falls are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />numerous & quite disguise the Perpetual Snow.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.17	p	You have correctly appreciated the many complicated phenomena <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of Precipitation, Evaporation, Solar & Terrestrial Radiation. These <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all act differently, whether as to amount, duration, or effect, at different <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seasons of the year, North & South of the Snowy Mountains. Still, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their effects are progressively greater, in going from the Snows 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> to those of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.18	p	If I were to compare <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> with the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName>, I should say <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the Snow Line is lower in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>, because a far greater quantity <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />falls, & the sky is more cloudy.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.19	p	With regard to the Mountain Axis in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asia</placeName>, I do not doubt it is <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>, i. e. the mountain-mass, between the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the Plains of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">Bengal</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.20	p	The greatest mean Elevation is probably <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 feet</measure>: it is North of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> & zigzag: – proportionally very little of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> rises above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; – & the <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"300\" unit=\"foot\">300 feet</measure> of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">that</hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is exposed to view in a straight line, gives the delusive effect <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of a mountain-chain, on this side the main axis & water-shed.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.21	p	I have the pleasant company of my old friend & College-companion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. Thomson</persName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> (of the Scientific Mission to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>): he is a man of great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />enthusiasm & the highest scientific attainments. Before we met, he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />had, independently, adopted the same view of the Snowy <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I did in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>; & all that we can see from these mountains appears <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to confirm it. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. <choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Thomson</expan> </choice></persName> has visited the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">Karakoran</placeName> Pass, & finds it as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laid down in your map to <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a05688a4-43ff-4203-9688-a443ffe20308\" corresp=\"#ce0777fc-bf75-4565-8777-fcbf759565f5\" type=\"editorialNote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">Asie Centrale</hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ce0777fc-bf75-4565-8777-fcbf759565f5\" corresp=\"#a05688a4-43ff-4203-9688-a443ffe20308\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843, III</bibl>. Am Ende des Bandes findet sich die Karte „Chaines de montagnes et volcans de l’Asie centrale“ auf ungezähltem Blatt.</note>. He regards the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">Karako<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ran</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009066 http://www.geonames.org/1280524\">Muztagh</placeName> as the real continuation of the axis, which runs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">Mansarovar</placeName>. The latter is, indeed, another <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">noeud</hi>, from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which radiate chains of mountains, – one, dividing the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">Indus</placeName> 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/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">Sutlej</placeName>, another North of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">Indus</placeName>, & another South 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/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">Sutlej</placeName>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> In fact, the course of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">Indus</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">Sutlej</placeName> much resembles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9547661 https://www.geonames.org/1255591\">Soubansiri</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Yarou</placeName>, the latter being the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Dihong</placeName> & finally <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/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Brahmapootra</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.22	p	With regard to <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Atmospheric phenomena</hi>, I found the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> East wind <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to prevail up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 feet</measure>; whereas, at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000</measure>, the westerly current <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is perennial. The <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.E.</abbr> <expan>South East</expan> </choice> wind is all but perennial in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>, but is consi<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />derably checked by the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName>; still, it keeps <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> cloudy & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />showery from May till <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Oct<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi></abbr> <expan>October</expan> </choice>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> The <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> East Monsoon hardly reaches <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/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>: the currents, being generally between the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H1541238\">Garrows</placeName></add> </subst> & the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6580249\">Rajma<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />hal Mountains</placeName>, cause the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayah</placeName> to be much wetter than <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/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName> Mountains, which are sheltered by the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H2759692 https://www.geonames.org/1266856\">Khossyah</placeName>. In these<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"306r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">9</fw>latter mountains, the rain is excessive: <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"350\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">350 inches</measure> fell last year at <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/H3488959\">Churra</placeName> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"120\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">120</measure> this last <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" from=\"1850-07-01\" to=\"1850-07-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">July</date>. I have, several times, carefully measured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">11 inches</measure> in 12 hours. There is no error in my Instruments, nor in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />those<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> established at <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName></del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3488959\">Churra</placeName></add> </subst><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> The Atmospheric pressure Temperature <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the Wet Bulb I register as often as possible, without interfering <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with my other pursuits; & I find that a Thermometer, buried at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"foot\">3 <lb />feet</measure>, gives very valuable results.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.23	p	The Atmospheric Tide is uniform, as to time, at all elevations; but <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the amount gradually diminishes, & progressively with the elevation; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />– at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure> it appears to be but a few thousandths of an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">inch</measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I almost invariably read off all the Instruments 7 times in the 24 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hours; & I have horary observations, from all heights, up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I take the same times as at the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName> Observatory.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.24	p	For Geodetical Observations I have little leisure, & confine my<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />self to a careful survey of my route; & occasionally I note the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />elevations of remarkable distant mountains. The Survey & numberless <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Barometric Observations, over all parts of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>, may afford elements <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for a computation of the mean mass of that section of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I have found vegetation up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500 feet</measure> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName><choice> <orig>:</orig> <reg /> </choice></add>: herbaceous plants are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sufficiently abundant at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000</measure>, in certain spots; & among Shrubs I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have several species of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Lonicera</name></hi>, & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Rhododendron</name></hi>, from above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <lb />feet</measure>, with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Gnaphalium</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Ephedra</name></hi>. A <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Urtica\"> Nettle</name> (<name type=\"plant\">Urtica</name>)</hi> attains this <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />elevation; so do <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Zannichellia</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Ranunculus</name></hi> (in water<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Compositae\">Compositæ</name></hi> are <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">decidedly</add> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />however, the most alpine order; many genera, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Gnaphalium</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Saussurea</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Artemisia</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Erigeron</name></hi>, occurring between <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000</measure> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17500\" unit=\"foot\">17,500 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Astragalus</name> & <name type=\"plant\">Valeriana</name></hi> (<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Nardostachys</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> A <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Coleopterous insect\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">Coleopterous</hi> <lb />Insect</name>, allied to <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Meloe\">Meloe</name></hi> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>), & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Acarus\">Acarus</name></hi> are found, inhabiting <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500 <lb />feet</measure>, along with the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Equus kiang\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">Kiang</hi></name> or <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Equus kiang\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Wild Ass</name>, & various <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Ruminantia\">Ruminants</name></hi>: there, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />too, the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Fuchs\">Fox</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Hase\">Hare</name></hi>, & two species of lesser <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Rodentia\">Rodents</name></hi> burrow, all of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which have Parasites. At <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000</measure>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Biene\">Bees</name></hi> live & feed: <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">Diptera</name></hi> are common:<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"306v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">10</fw><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">Ephemera</name></hi> is found & <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bc81c8b6-9663-4167-81c8-b696638167d2\" corresp=\"#ff9d8dbe-f581-4074-9d8d-bef5810074e1\" type=\"editorialNote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Papilionoidea\"><choice> <sic>Papilionaceæ</sic> <corr>Papilionoidea</corr> </choice></name></hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ff9d8dbe-f581-4074-9d8d-bef5810074e1\" corresp=\"#bc81c8b6-9663-4167-81c8-b696638167d2\" type=\"editorial\">In der Abschrift steht <name type=\"plant\">Papilionaceae</name>, ein früherer Name für Hülsenfrüchtler. Gemeint sind jedoch <name type=\"animal\" key=\"Papilionoidea\">Papilionoidea</name>, eine Überfamilie der Schmetterlinge.</note> of two Genera <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">.</del> <add place=\"across\">(</add> </subst><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">Polyommatus</name></hi> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Argynnis\">Argyn<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">n</unclear>is</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> The large <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Carabidae\">Carabideæ</name></hi>, which are seen on the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">European Alps</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />do not inhabit the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>, & their absence is an anomaly. At <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16,000 feet</measure> I have observed the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Stubenfliege\">Housefly</name></hi> & the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">Lumbricus</name></hi>. The <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Moschustiere\">Musk Deer</name></hi> I never detected, even in Midsummer, at very high alti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tudes, never above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12000\" unit=\"foot\">12,000 feet</measure>; there is, however<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> another species <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>. A <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Affe\">Monkey</name></hi> inhabits the woods at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 feet</measure>, but is more <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />common at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"9000\" unit=\"foot\">9,000</measure>. The Limits of the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Pinus pinea\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Pines</name></hi> are very curious & well-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />marked, differing both from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName> & the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>. There is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />no <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Cedrus deodara\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Deodar</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Pinus excelsa</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Gerardiana</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Cupressus torulosa</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whereas the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Cupressus funebris\"><choice> <abbr>C.</abbr> <expan>Cupressus</expan> </choice> funebris</name></hi> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">China</placeName> is <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">commonly</add> planted: & there is a <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Pinus longifolia\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Wild Larch <lb />(Pinus longifolia)</name></hi> at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1,</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4000\" unit=\"foot\">4,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> – <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Taxus\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Yew (Taxus)</name></hi> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">17</del> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Abies Brunonis</name>, <name type=\"plant\" key=\"Larix\" subtype=\"vernacular\">Larch</name> & <name type=\"plant\">Abies Khutrow</name></hi> (alias <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Abies smithiana\">Smithiana</name></hi>) all occur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />between <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=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 feet</measure>. An erect <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Juniperus\">Tree-Juniper</name></hi> & fruticose <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Rhododen<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dron</name></hi><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">.</del> <add place=\"across\"> (</add> </subst><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">8 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> high), <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Betula\">Birch</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Salix\">Willow</name> & <name type=\"plant\">Pyrus</name></hi>, ascend to near <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />favourable situations, & are all stunted. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Lonicera\">Loniceræ</name></hi> are, however, the com<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mon shrubs at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14,000 feet</measure> (several species of the genus), with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Rosa</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Berberis</name></hi>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.25	p	My Geological notes want all to be worked up. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Gneis\">Gneiss</name> is the preva<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lent formation, between <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7</measure> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; above that <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"sublinear\">Encrinitic</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">(<metamark>?</metamark>)</del> </subst> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Granit\">Granites</name>; & 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/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, fossiliferous <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kalkstein\">Limestone</name> & Tertiary Rocks. Below <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,000 feet</measure>, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Glimmer\">Mica</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Ton\">Clay</name> slates, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Sandstein\">Sandstone</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kohle\">Coal</name>. There is no <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kalk\">Lime</name>, in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Proper, – except as a Deposit. Hot-springs, of temperature <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" unit=\"fahrenheit\" quantity=\"110\">110.°</measure>, I have <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />found, at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, with <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Schwefel\">sulphur</name>ous <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Salz\">Salts</name>. The most curious & novel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Geological feature consists in the magnificent <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Moraines</hi>, which abound <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in every valley, descending from the Snow. They commence at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,</measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 <lb />feet</measure>, & may thence be traced continuously up to the Glaciers themselves, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whose lower edges, often <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"mile\">20 miles</measure> higher up the valley, are always <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />at about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure>. The proofs seem therefore evident, of a gradual <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sinking of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalayas</placeName>. I could perceive no signs of a rising, but abund<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ant <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">evidence</add> of the contrary phenomenon. The Glaciers have certainly receded <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.26	p	And now it is high time to draw this long letter to a close: I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fear I have but poorly succeeded in my attempt to inform you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of what I am about.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.27	p	<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. Thomson</persName> & I mean to continue our explorations till <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" from=\"1850-11-01\" to=\"1850-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this neighborhood. We shall then visit <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5532789 https://www.geonames.org/1275009\">Cachar</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5534643 https://www.geonames.org/1205733\">Chittagong</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0021451\">Arra<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />can</placeName>, from whence we embark for <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">England</placeName> in the spring <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1851\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">next year</date>. Our conjoined collections will be enormous: his con<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tains 4000 species, from the Plains of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">India</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000378 https://www.geonames.org/1440268\">Kashmir</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011337 https://www.geonames.org/1172451\">Lahore</placeName>: – mine nearly as many, 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/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">Bengal</placeName>. We have gathered, together, upwards <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of 3,000 species more & we expect to add perhaps another thousand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5534643 https://www.geonames.org/1205733\">Chittagong</placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0021451\">Arracan</placeName>. The vegetation here is perfectly won<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />derful: we have 20 <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Quercus\">Oaks</name></hi> alone, from the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H2759692 https://www.geonames.org/1266856\">Khassyah <choice> <abbr>M<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice></placeName> & an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />equal number 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>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.28	p	You will be sorry to hear that 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> of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjeeling</placeName> has been, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& still is, seriously ill: he always desires his grateful regards to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you, when he knows I am writing.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.29	p	I rejoice to hear of your continued health. The <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d7bdc9cf-c6e0-4bfa-bdc9-cfc6e02bfa8e\" corresp=\"#de8f1822-0993-40fd-8f18-22099300fd4b\" type=\"editorialNote\">news of the <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">King <lb />of Prussia</persName>’s accident reached me here</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"de8f1822-0993-40fd-8f18-22099300fd4b\" corresp=\"#d7bdc9cf-c6e0-4bfa-bdc9-cfc6e02bfa8e\" type=\"editorial\">In einem Brief an <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130X\">Carl Ritter</persName> schreibt Alexander von Humboldt vermutlich am 28. Februar 1850, dass <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Friedrich Wilhelm IV.</persName> aufgrund eines Stoßes an einer steinernen Bank bettlägerig sei (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/FVBJTHCM\">Humboldt 2010</bibl>, 109).</note>: – I knew it would afflict <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you: & I now rejoice, with all the scientific world, that a Sovereign <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />who has the true interests of Science so much at heart, has recovered.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.1	p	my correspondence has inevitably <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fallen into such confusion for the last 12 months, & so many of my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />letters have been lost, that i am almost afraid to think how long <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a time may have elapsed, since you heard from me: – much longer, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i know it is, than it ought to have been, under any circumstances, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />especially as i have never thanked you for the distinguished place <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you are said to have given to my name in your new edition of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a\" corresp=\"#d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b\" type=\"editorialnote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">aspects of nature</hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d4948b38-55fa-4d07-948b-3855fa5d072b\" corresp=\"#a8407d42-d7c5-43de-807d-42d7c573de4a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/mu3fguxf\">humboldt 1849a</bibl>.</note>. my copy of this work has not reached me, but <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i am well aware that i ought to be very grateful, & to feel highly hon<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ored. i have very much to thank you for, during many years.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">1.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28148\" unit=\"foot\">28,148. feet.</measure> (accurately measured.)</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">2.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">a mountain in about <lb />86°. 30′ <choice> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>long.</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">3.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain-than</placename></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.2.1.4	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">4.</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dwhalgiri</placename><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">—</cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.3	p	the <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0664069 https://d-nb.info/gnd/141590483\">deputy-surveyor-<choice> <abbr>gen<hi rendition=\"#sup\">l</hi>.</abbr> <expan>general</expan> </choice> (<choice> <abbr>ca<del rendition=\"#s\"><unclear cert=\"high\" reason=\"covered\">p</unclear></del>pt.</abbr> <expan>captain</expan> </choice> thuillier)</persname> is an intimate friend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of mine; but he can give no information, his <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">principal</persname> not having for<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />warded any results, or data, to the office at <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename>. probably i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have already told you the same as is detailed above; i know no more. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the mountain, nº. 2, i have repeatedly seen: it divides the rivers<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"302v\" /> <fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">2</fw><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">kosi</placename>, & is visible from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjeeling</placename> & elsewhere.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.4	p	you are aware of my visit to two <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>an passes, in eastern <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepaul</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the west of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename>, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notbefore=\"1848-11-01\" notafter=\"1848-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>nov.</abbr> <expan>november</expan> </choice></date> & <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notbefore=\"1848-12-01\" notafter=\"1848-12-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>dec.</abbr> <expan>december</expan> </choice> 1848</date>, & of my protracted <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />residence on the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> frontier, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notbefore=\"1849-06-01\" notafter=\"1849-06-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">june</date>, & my subsequent visit to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />5 other passes, in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notbefore=\"1849-10-01\" notafter=\"1849-10-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>oct</abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice></date> & <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" notbefore=\"1849-11-01\" notafter=\"1849-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>november</expan> </choice> 1849</date>. during the latter excursion, <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">dr. <lb />campbell</persname> joined me, & we were eventually imprisoned by the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018354\">rajah</persname>, his counsellors &c. our lives were threatened & <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. <choice> <abbr>c.</abbr> <expan>campbell</expan> </choice></persname> had a most <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />narrow escape & was treated with great barbarity.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.5	p	i had <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">previously</add> visited <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> & spent some days north of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28°., discovering <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the source of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun river</placename>, which flows from the west 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/h5697072\">kamtchoo lakes</placename>, behind <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename>, to its exit from the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>m<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepaul</placename>. from what i saw, & from the very full information which <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i collected, i am now convinced that the snowed <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">s</supplied> do not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />form an individual mountain-chain; but that they consist of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupes</orig> <reg>groups</reg> </choice> of snowy peaks, widely separated from one another, & are parts, or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meridional spurs of a far more lofty range of mountains, between the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great masses of snow, & the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou-tsamper river</placename>. the southern <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water shed is behind all the snows, often ½ a degree & more; & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>an frontier runs along the line of watershed behind, as often as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along the ridges of snow. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> & the snow, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is, as you have well described it, a lofty rugged & quite impractica<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ble country; though none of the peaks, north of the watershed on that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />line, reach the elevation of the snowy ones.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.1	item	1. a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupe</orig> <reg>group</reg> </choice>, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>long.</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice> 93<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>° (which i am now measuring) dividing 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/h9547661 https://www.geonames.org/1255591\">soubanshiri</placename> from the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9690492\">monass</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.2	item	2. a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupe</orig> <reg>group</reg> </choice> i am also observing between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9690492\">monass</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.3	item	3. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari <choice> <orig>groupe</orig> <reg>group</reg> </choice></placename>, between <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h4316428\">matchoo</placename>, which rises north <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.4	item	4. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">donkiah</placename> (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000</measure>) which i have visited, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h4316428\">matchoo</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">lachen <add place=\"superlinear\">or teesta</add></placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.5	item	5. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename>, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">teesta</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.6	item	6. the peak (previously mentioned) in 86.° 30,′ between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">kosi</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.7	item	7. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain-than</placename>, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">kosi</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7753649\">gundule</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.8	item	8. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dwhalgiri</placename>, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7753649\">gundule</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6164791 https://www.geonames.org/1271404\">gogra</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.6.1.9	item	9. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">jewahir</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">mansarovar</placename>. <metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.7	p	the unsnowed space, between <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n<hi rendition=\"#sup\">os</hi>.</abbr> <expan>numbers</expan> </choice> 5 & 6, is very great. east of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">1</hi>, both the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">ceases</hi> & the lower ranges sink greatly. i am now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nearly due south of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">1</hi>, (<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> 10.° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice>) & see the horizon, to 30.° east, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />without a snowy peak or elevation. the snow commences again, east <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">dihong</placename>, which i do not doubt is the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">brahmapootra</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">ya<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rou</placename>. all the rivers, mentioned above, as between the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>groupes</orig> <reg>groups</reg> </choice> of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snows, have their sources in a small, well defined range, south 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/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename>. that range forms the boundary of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepaul</placename>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">west</hi> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain-than</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />– it <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">did</hi> form the boundary <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">east</hi> of it, before the war between <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepaul</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/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>. east of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain-than</placename>, there is no natural boundary; except <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />where the spurs of the mountains, east & west of the exit 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/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename>, constitute one. the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> boundary of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> is <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kin<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />chin-junga</placename>, to the west; & the range between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">lachoong & teesta</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, – <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">which is</add> a westerly spur from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">donkiah</placename>, which last runs south for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"40\" unit=\"mile\">40 miles</measure>, in a snowy meridional range, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> does so, too; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the chinese have drawn the line, south from the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>east<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi>.</abbr> <expan>eastern</expan> </choice> flank 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/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">donkiah</placename>, for as many <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">make</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">miles</add> </subst>, & then north again, from the west <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flank of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename>. this <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">v-shaped</hi> bit includes great 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/h4316428\">machoo</placename>’s course, & the town of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5785409 https://www.geonames.org/1280354\">pari</placename>: it is interposed between <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/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename>. the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename> valley is as low as <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6,000 feet</measure> in the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"303v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">4</fw>latitude of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename>, & looking from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> east, i could discern no <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snow between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> & the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>groupe</sic> <corr>group</corr> </choice> east of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename>. this last <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>groupe</sic> <corr>group</corr> </choice> i also see from these mountains where i now am<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">distant</hi> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"210\" unit=\"mile\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">210</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">mile<supplied cert=\"high\">s</supplied></hi></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& i calculate its elevation at near <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000 feet</measure>; – from both stations.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.8	p	when i was in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28.° 10<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>′</reg> </choice> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</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>long.</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice> 88.° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice>, i took angles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with a theodolite, from a mountain, <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500</measure> above the sea, on the sou<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">th</supplied><g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ern flank of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> valley. the ranges, to the north of me, were no<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />where below that elevation; but they did not rise above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"22000\" unit=\"foot\">22,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eastward i saw <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">three</hi> meridional ranges, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">i. e.</hi> that of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> east, & 2 others, each of which came from a lofty mounta<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">in</supplied><g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />land, & were connected with a beautiful snowy range, about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"80\" unit=\"mile\">80 mi<supplied cert=\"high\">les</supplied></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> east, & which i believe separated the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h1460789\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">u</hi> & tsang provinces</placename> <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">of</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>. north west of me was the course of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename>, & beyond it, <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">a</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very lofty range, rising to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"25000\" unit=\"foot\">25,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, which took a southerly direction <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />forming the snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah <choice> <sic>groupe</sic> <corr>group</corr> </choice></placename>, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">kosi</placename> (or th<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />west of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> this line of watershed is a physical feature, we<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">ll</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recognized by the thibetans: between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> it is called <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7654941\">dingchaun province</placename>, & sometimes <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7654941\">damtsen</placename>. the inhabitants are <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">very</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />black: they rear shawl <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">wool</add> goats & yaks, & are a most turbulent rac<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of robbers, detested as savage cattle stealers, or worse, by the sikkimi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">tes,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nepalese & thibetans. to us they were uncouth, rude, & boisterous, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />could only be kept in order by great bullying. they opposed my cross<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">ing</supplied> <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/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & i owe them a heavy grudge for breaking my azimuth <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />compass, though i believe the mischief was caused by accident & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />awkwardness, rather than deliberate ill-will.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.1	item	1. that, west of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename>, on which is <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.2	item	2. that, east of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>, with <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020933 https://www.geonames.org/1272390\">donkiah</placename> on it.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.3	item	3. that, bounding the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> on the south.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.4	item	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>– with <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename> (4.)</sic> <corr>4. that, bounding the <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> with <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename>.</corr> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.5	item	5. the axis, running <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice>, between the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">paunom</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3394287\">painom</placename></add> </subst> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename> & then <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.w</abbr> <expan>south west</expan> </choice>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.9.1.6	item	6. the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h2203411\">odoo <choice> <abbr>m<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice></placename> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) running <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.e.</abbr> <expan>south east</expan> </choice> between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9690492\">monass</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.10	p	the rivers are (1) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h4316428\">ma<add place=\"intralinear\">t</add>choo</placename> (2)<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>s.w.</abbr> <expan>south west</expan> </choice> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">teesta</placename>. (3) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020559 https://www.geonames.org/1266067\">arun</placename>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(4) <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3394287\">painom</placename>. (5)<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>n.e.</abbr> <expan>north east</expan> </choice> –<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>– (6<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>s.e.</abbr> <expan>south east</expan> </choice> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6597369\">patchion</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.11	p	the mean elevation of this tract is <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure>: – nothing will <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ripen there. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">digarchi</placename> is in about the latitude & longitude that <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">turner</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />assigns to it: there the crops ripen only under the shelter of, & favo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />red by the radiation from, the black rocks of the flanks of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3394287\">pai<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />nom</placename> valley, & its tributaries: – the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"juglans\">wallnut</name></hi> grows, but neither it nor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"prunus persica\">peach</name></hi> ripen fruit, & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"salix\">willow</name></hi> is the only <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#uu\">tree</hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>. –</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> it is from <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"8\" unit=\"foot\">8</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12\" unit=\"foot\">12 feet</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />high.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.12	p	the result of all the oral information i gained about the nat<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"high\">u</unclear>r</del> <add place=\"across\">iv</add> </subst>e <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the cultiva<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">tion</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <orig>-</orig> <reg /> </choice>ted vegetation</add> </subst> of this region lead me to assume its elevation at <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14,000 feet</measure>; & the mean temperature <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">of <choice> <abbr>oct<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice></add> (fide <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">turner</persname>) gives the same, <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">calculated</add> at <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the rate of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" unit=\"fahrenheit\" quantity=\"1\">1°. degree of <choice> <abbr>fahr.</abbr> <expan>fahrenheit</expan> </choice></measure> = <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"400\" unit=\"foot\">400 feet</measure><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice>, which, from a multitude of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />observations on the air & sunk thermometer<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">s</del> (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"foot\">3 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>) contemporaneously <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with others, at <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjeeling</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename>, i have found to be the decrement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for altitudes above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1,000 feet</measure>, north of the snows.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> in <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e8c5bf17-e254-4dc8-85bf-17e2544dc820\" corresp=\"#b97a2ca9-7339-465e-ba2c-a97339865e27\" type=\"editorialnote\">„asie <lb />centrale“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b97a2ca9-7339-465e-ba2c-a97339865e27\" corresp=\"#e8c5bf17-e254-4dc8-85bf-17e2544dc820\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>.</note> you perhaps assume <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004092 http://d-nb.info/gnd/129956252\">turner</persname>’s <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>oct.</abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice> temperature of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">digarchi</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for that of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename> i have many good accounts. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"vitis\">grapes</name></hi> do not ripen there, but are imported. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"prunus persica\">peaches</name><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> <name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"salix\">willow</name> & <name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"juglans\">wallnut</name></hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />thrive well, whether as regards wood or fruit, but no other tree. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"dromedar\">dromedaries</name> abound. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename> is a poor place, after all that has been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />said of it: the census is small (i forget what<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> the accounts of those <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />who have & who have not seen such a town as <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0551618 https://www.geonames.org/1259166\">purneah</placename> in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">bengal</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are sufficiently different & instructive.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> is navigable for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />skin boats, in the rainy season, from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9231633 https://www.geonames.org/1281119\">giantchi</placename> to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">digarchi</placename>, & 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/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">digarchi</placename> to the meridian of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename>; but the course is very tortuous: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />it flows, between lofty mountain ranges, far east of the great lake (i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />forget its proper name, not yarbongh, as it is called on the maps): it is<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"304v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">6</fw>certainly very large, but the island is small, towards the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.w.</abbr> <expan>south west</expan> </choice> angle. <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/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> trends south, & the country is warm, producing the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"morus\">mulberry</name> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& some say silk & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"oryza\">rice</name>. every thibetan describes the people near the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bend<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> as atrocious savages, dwelling in mountainous woods, bordering <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>: they are the a<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">r</del>bors & bor-a<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">r</del>bors, of course. there the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(they say) enters the mountains, & flows <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> to the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">brahma-pootra</placename>. the stream <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is there too rapid to admit of navigation & the inhabitants of its banks <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are too savage. east of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename>, by <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h137183\">towang</placename>, there is no snow, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">en route</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">assam</placename> to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"juniperus\">juniper</name> grows to the mountain-tops. the rivers, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from a little way south of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename>, flow to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">assam</placename>; <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">n</del> <add place=\"across\">n</add> </subst>or is the boundary <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of east <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename> well-defined. all the various information<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> which i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gained respecting the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename>, was to the same import, & my informants <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />were very numerous. the best was a well-educated monk, who was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brought up at <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a7a743c9-81f6-4f93-a743-c981f6df9381\" corresp=\"#d7873b14-667b-49f6-873b-14667b79f663\" type=\"editorialnote\">mendoling</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d7873b14-667b-49f6-873b-14667b79f663\" corresp=\"#a7a743c9-81f6-4f93-a743-c981f6df9381\" type=\"editorial\">hier handelt es sich vermutlich um das kloster <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7239222\">mindrölling</placename> in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h1460789\">zentraltibet</placename>.</note>, a goompta, 2 days south of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename>, situ<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ated on a river, flowing to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h137183\">towang</placename>, & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">assam</placename>, 5 days off. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7995962\">menchona</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is the mart of that quarter, & the only great one east of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5785409 https://www.geonames.org/1280354\">pari</placename>. north <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> is the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"salz\">salt</name>-country, lofty, rugged, barren & inhospitable to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />last degree. the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"yak\">yak</name> cannot proceed beyond a few marches north 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/h3683728 https://www.geonames.org/1279715\">digarchi</placename>, & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"schaf\">sheep</name> are almost the only beasts of burthen, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">except men</hi>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.13	p	respecting the physical features of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">eastern <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename></hi>, its manners, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">customs</hi> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />agriculture, religion, &c, i gleaned many particulars; but i fear they would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />only weary you. your general account is admirable. plains, as you say, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are but local features, & very limited ones: – the country is one of stupen<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />dous, rugged mountain-chains, – & not of plains or table land. the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flat-floored valleys & scarped-flanked mountains are of comparati<unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">vel</unclear>y <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uniform elevation above the sea, but widely variable as to their height <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the valleys, giving to <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>east<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi>.</abbr> <expan>eastern</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> a very different look from the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>. the absence of snow & wood completes the illusion; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& as you truly remark, the traveller, who suddenly comes upon the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />features of an open country, the access to which begins abruptly, is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very apt to be deceived (in its elevation): the theodolite alone can<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"305r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">7</fw>dispel the error.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> the line of perpetual snow is about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 feet</measure>, where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the masses of the mountains first rise so high; it gradually rises with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the increasing height of the land to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19000\" unit=\"foot\">19,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, – & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19500\" unit=\"foot\">19,500</measure> is the lowest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mean level, in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 28°. 30′, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>long.</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice> 88<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">°</supplied> east, – & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000</measure> in the same longitude <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>lat.</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 27°. 30′.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> i have seen well-defined patches lower down on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />south flanks of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> glaciers abound, but not towards the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />southern limits of the perpetual snow, where the mountains are too <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rugged.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.14	p	it is a remarkable fact that every river valley which i have ascended <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opens out & becomes broad & flat-floored, at about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,000 feet</measure>: it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />becomes imper<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">f</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>eptibly more & more so as you ascend; & when it has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />conducted you above the limits of clouds, rain & snow, it gradually <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />becomes drier, barren & more thibetan.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.15	p	the average rain-fall at <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjeeling</placename> is <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"120\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">120 inches</measure>, & it is progressively <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />less in the interior till the mountains reach to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 feet</measure>, when the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quantity of rain suddenly diminishes.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.16	p	the first snow descends on the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />september, & does not always melt. in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> the snow line descends <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>oct.</abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice>, – in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> not till december. in the drier mountain parts, again <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />it melts up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, as far north as <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3828425\">kiong-lah</placename>, snow <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />often falls in the end of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>aug<hi rendition=\"#sup\">t</hi>.</abbr> <expan>august</expan> </choice> & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>sept.</abbr> <expan>september</expan> </choice> every year, & melts again to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"19000\" unit=\"foot\">19,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. as the rains are not over till <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>oct.</abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice>, the sporadic falls are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />numerous & quite disguise the perpetual snow.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.17	p	you have correctly appreciated the many complicated phenomena <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of precipitation, evaporation, solar & terrestrial radiation. these <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all act differently, whether as to amount, duration, or effect, at different <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seasons of the year, north & south of the snowy mountains. still, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their effects are progressively greater, in going from the snows 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> to those of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.18	p	if i were to compare <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> with the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename>, i should say <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the snow line is lower in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>, because a far greater quantity <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />falls, & the sky is more cloudy.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.19	p	with regard to the mountain axis in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asia</placename>, i do not doubt it is <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>, i. e. the mountain-mass, between the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the plains of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">bengal</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.20	p	the greatest mean elevation is probably <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 feet</measure>: it is north of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> & zigzag: – proportionally very little of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> rises above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; – & the <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"300\" unit=\"foot\">300 feet</measure> of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">that</hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is exposed to view in a straight line, gives the delusive effect <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of a mountain-chain, on this side the main axis & water-shed.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.21	p	i have the pleasant company of my old friend & college-companion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. thomson</persname><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> (of the scientific mission to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>): he is a man of great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />enthusiasm & the highest scientific attainments. before we met, he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />had, independently, adopted the same view of the snowy <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i did in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>; & all that we can see from these mountains appears <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to confirm it. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. <choice> <abbr>t.</abbr> <expan>thomson</expan> </choice></persname> has visited the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">karakoran</placename> pass, & finds it as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laid down in your map to <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a05688a4-43ff-4203-9688-a443ffe20308\" corresp=\"#ce0777fc-bf75-4565-8777-fcbf759565f5\" type=\"editorialnote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">asie centrale</hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ce0777fc-bf75-4565-8777-fcbf759565f5\" corresp=\"#a05688a4-43ff-4203-9688-a443ffe20308\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843, iii</bibl>. am ende des bandes findet sich die karte „chaines de montagnes et volcans de l’asie centrale“ auf ungezähltem blatt.</note>. he regards the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">karako<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ran</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009066 http://www.geonames.org/1280524\">muztagh</placename> as the real continuation of the axis, which runs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice> from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">mansarovar</placename>. the latter is, indeed, another <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">noeud</hi>, from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which radiate chains of mountains, – one, dividing the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">indus</placename> 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/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">sutlej</placename>, another north of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">indus</placename>, & another south 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/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">sutlej</placename>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> in fact, the course of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006690 https://www.geonames.org/1115007\">indus</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">sutlej</placename> much resembles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9547661 https://www.geonames.org/1255591\">soubansiri</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">yarou</placename>, the latter being the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">dihong</placename> & finally <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/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">brahmapootra</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.22	p	with regard to <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">atmospheric phenomena</hi>, i found the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> east wind <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to prevail up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000 feet</measure>; whereas, at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24000\" unit=\"foot\">24,000</measure>, the westerly current <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />is perennial. the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.e.</abbr> <expan>south east</expan> </choice> wind is all but perennial in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>, but is consi<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />derably checked by the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename>; still, it keeps <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> cloudy & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />showery from may till <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>oct<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi></abbr> <expan>october</expan> </choice>.<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" /> the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> east monsoon hardly reaches <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/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>: the currents, being generally between the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h1541238\">garrows</placename></add> </subst> & the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6580249\">rajma<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />hal mountains</placename>, cause the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayah</placename> to be much wetter than <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/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename> mountains, which are sheltered by the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h2759692 https://www.geonames.org/1266856\">khossyah</placename>. in these<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"306r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">9</fw>latter mountains, the rain is excessive: <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"350\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">350 inches</measure> fell last year at <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/h3488959\">churra</placename> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"120\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">120</measure> this last <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" from=\"1850-07-01\" to=\"1850-07-31\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">july</date>. i have, several times, carefully measured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">11 inches</measure> in 12 hours. there is no error in my instruments, nor in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />those<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> established at <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename></del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3488959\">churra</placename></add> </subst><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> the atmospheric pressure temperature <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the wet bulb i register as often as possible, without interfering <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with my other pursuits; & i find that a thermometer, buried at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"foot\">3 <lb />feet</measure>, gives very valuable results.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.23	p	the atmospheric tide is uniform, as to time, at all elevations; but <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the amount gradually diminishes, & progressively with the elevation; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />– at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure> it appears to be but a few thousandths of an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">inch</measure>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i almost invariably read off all the instruments 7 times in the 24 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hours; & i have horary observations, from all heights, up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i take the same times as at the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename> observatory.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.24	p	for geodetical observations i have little leisure, & confine my<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />self to a careful survey of my route; & occasionally i note the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />elevations of remarkable distant mountains. the survey & numberless <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />barometric observations, over all parts of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>, may afford elements <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for a computation of the mean mass of that section of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i have found vegetation up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500 feet</measure> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename><choice> <orig>:</orig> <reg /> </choice></add>: herbaceous plants are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sufficiently abundant at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18,000</measure>, in certain spots; & among shrubs i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have several species of <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">lonicera</name></hi>, & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">rhododendron</name></hi>, from above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <lb />feet</measure>, with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">gnaphalium</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">ephedra</name></hi>. a <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"urtica\"> nettle</name> (<name type=\"plant\">urtica</name>)</hi> attains this <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />elevation; so do <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">zannichellia</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">ranunculus</name></hi> (in water<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"compositae\">compositæ</name></hi> are <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">decidedly</add> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />however, the most alpine order; many genera, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">gnaphalium</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">saussurea</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">artemisia</name></hi> & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">erigeron</name></hi>, occurring between <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000</measure> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17500\" unit=\"foot\">17,500 feet</measure>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">astragalus</name> & <name type=\"plant\">valeriana</name></hi> (<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">nardostachys</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> a <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"coleopterous insect\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">coleopterous</hi> <lb />insect</name>, allied to <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"meloe\">meloe</name></hi> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>), & <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"acarus\">acarus</name></hi> are found, inhabiting <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18500\" unit=\"foot\">18,500 <lb />feet</measure>, along with the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"equus kiang\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">kiang</hi></name> or <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"equus kiang\" subtype=\"vernacular\">wild ass</name>, & various <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"ruminantia\">ruminants</name></hi>: there, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />too, the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"fuchs\">fox</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"hase\">hare</name></hi>, & two species of lesser <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"rodentia\">rodents</name></hi> burrow, all of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which have parasites. at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000</measure>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"biene\">bees</name></hi> live & feed: <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">diptera</name></hi> are common:<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"306v\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">10</fw><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">ephemera</name></hi> is found & <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bc81c8b6-9663-4167-81c8-b696638167d2\" corresp=\"#ff9d8dbe-f581-4074-9d8d-bef5810074e1\" type=\"editorialnote\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"papilionoidea\"><choice> <sic>papilionaceæ</sic> <corr>papilionoidea</corr> </choice></name></hi></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ff9d8dbe-f581-4074-9d8d-bef5810074e1\" corresp=\"#bc81c8b6-9663-4167-81c8-b696638167d2\" type=\"editorial\">in der abschrift steht <name type=\"plant\">papilionaceae</name>, ein früherer name für hülsenfrüchtler. gemeint sind jedoch <name type=\"animal\" key=\"papilionoidea\">papilionoidea</name>, eine Überfamilie der schmetterlinge.</note> of two genera <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">.</del> <add place=\"across\">(</add> </subst><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">polyommatus</name></hi> & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"argynnis\">argyn<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">n</unclear>is</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.)</orig> <reg>).</reg> </choice> the large <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"carabidae\">carabideæ</name></hi>, which are seen on the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002402 https://www.geonames.org/2661786\">european alps</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />do not inhabit the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>, & their absence is an anomaly. at <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16,000 feet</measure> i have observed the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"stubenfliege\">housefly</name></hi> & the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\">lumbricus</name></hi>. the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"moschustiere\">musk deer</name></hi> i never detected, even in midsummer, at very high alti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tudes, never above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12000\" unit=\"foot\">12,000 feet</measure>; there is, however<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> another species <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>. a <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"affe\">monkey</name></hi> inhabits the woods at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 feet</measure>, but is more <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />common at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"9000\" unit=\"foot\">9,000</measure>. the limits of the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"pinus pinea\" subtype=\"vernacular\">pines</name></hi> are very curious & well-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />marked, differing both from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename> & the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>. there is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />no <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"cedrus deodara\" subtype=\"vernacular\">deodar</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">pinus excelsa</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">gerardiana</name></hi>, nor <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">cupressus torulosa</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whereas the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"cupressus funebris\"><choice> <abbr>c.</abbr> <expan>cupressus</expan> </choice> funebris</name></hi> (<metamark xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">?</metamark>) of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">china</placename> is <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">commonly</add> planted: & there is a <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"pinus longifolia\" subtype=\"vernacular\">wild larch <lb />(pinus longifolia)</name></hi> at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1,</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4000\" unit=\"foot\">4,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> – <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"taxus\" subtype=\"vernacular\">yew (taxus)</name></hi> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">17</del> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,</measure>-<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">abies brunonis</name>, <name type=\"plant\" key=\"larix\" subtype=\"vernacular\">larch</name> & <name type=\"plant\">abies khutrow</name></hi> (alias <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"abies smithiana\">smithiana</name></hi>) all occur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />between <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=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 feet</measure>. an erect <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"juniperus\">tree-juniper</name></hi> & fruticose <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">rhododen<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dron</name></hi><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">.</del> <add place=\"across\"> (</add> </subst><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">8 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> high), <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"betula\">birch</name></hi><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"salix\">willow</name> & <name type=\"plant\">pyrus</name></hi>, ascend to near <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />favourable situations, & are all stunted. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"lonicera\">loniceræ</name></hi> are, however, the com<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mon shrubs at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14,000 feet</measure> (several species of the genus), with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">rosa</name></hi>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">berberis</name></hi>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.25	p	my geological notes want all to be worked up. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"gneis\">gneiss</name> is the preva<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lent formation, between <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7</measure> & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>; above that <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"sublinear\">encrinitic</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">(<metamark>?</metamark>)</del> </subst> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"granit\">granites</name>; & 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/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, fossiliferous <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kalkstein\">limestone</name> & tertiary rocks. below <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,000 feet</measure>, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"glimmer\">mica</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"ton\">clay</name> slates, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"sandstein\">sandstone</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kohle\">coal</name>. there is no <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kalk\">lime</name>, in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proper, – except as a deposit. hot-springs, of temperature <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" unit=\"fahrenheit\" quantity=\"110\">110.°</measure>, i have <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />found, at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, with <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"schwefel\">sulphur</name>ous <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"salz\">salts</name>. the most curious & novel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geological feature consists in the magnificent <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">moraines</hi>, which abound <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in every valley, descending from the snow. they commence at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10,</measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11,000 <lb />feet</measure>, & may thence be traced continuously up to the glaciers themselves, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whose lower edges, often <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"mile\">20 miles</measure> higher up the valley, are always <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />at about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17000\" unit=\"foot\">17,000 feet</measure>. the proofs seem therefore evident, of a gradual <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sinking of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalayas</placename>. i could perceive no signs of a rising, but abund<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ant <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">evidence</add> of the contrary phenomenon. the glaciers have certainly receded <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7,000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.26	p	and now it is high time to draw this long letter to a close: i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fear i have but poorly succeeded in my attempt to inform you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of what i am about.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.27	p	<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>. thomson</persname> & i mean to continue our explorations till <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" from=\"1850-11-01\" to=\"1850-11-30\" calendar=\"#gregorian\"><choice> <abbr>nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>november</expan> </choice></date> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this neighborhood. we shall then visit <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5532789 https://www.geonames.org/1275009\">cachar</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5534643 https://www.geonames.org/1205733\">chittagong</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0021451\">arra<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />can</placename>, from whence we embark for <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">england</placename> in the spring <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1851\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">next year</date>. our conjoined collections will be enormous: his con<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tains 4000 species, from the plains of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">india</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000378 https://www.geonames.org/1440268\">kashmir</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011337 https://www.geonames.org/1172451\">lahore</placename>: – mine nearly as many, 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/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005199 https://www.geonames.org/1252881\">bengal</placename>. we have gathered, together, upwards <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of 3,000 species more & we expect to add perhaps another thousand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5534643 https://www.geonames.org/1205733\">chittagong</placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0021451\">arracan</placename>. the vegetation here is perfectly won<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />derful: we have 20 <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"quercus\">oaks</name></hi> alone, from the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h2759692 https://www.geonames.org/1266856\">khassyah <choice> <abbr>m<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ts</hi>.</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice></placename> & an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />equal number 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>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.28	p	you will be sorry to hear that 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> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjeeling</placename> has been, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& still is, seriously ill: he always desires his grateful regards to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you, when he knows i am writing.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020423:1.29	p	i rejoice to hear of your continued health. the <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d7bdc9cf-c6e0-4bfa-bdc9-cfc6e02bfa8e\" corresp=\"#de8f1822-0993-40fd-8f18-22099300fd4b\" type=\"editorialnote\">news of the <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">king <lb />of prussia</persname>’s accident reached me here</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"de8f1822-0993-40fd-8f18-22099300fd4b\" corresp=\"#d7bdc9cf-c6e0-4bfa-bdc9-cfc6e02bfa8e\" type=\"editorial\">in einem brief an <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130x\">carl ritter</persname> schreibt alexander von humboldt vermutlich am 28. februar 1850, dass <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">friedrich wilhelm iv.</persname> aufgrund eines stoßes an einer steinernen bank bettlägerig sei (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/fvbjthcm\">humboldt 2010</bibl>, 109).</note>: – i knew it would afflict <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you: & i now rejoice, with all the scientific world, that a sovereign <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />who has the true interests of science so much at heart, has recovered.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.1	p	Chargé par mon Gouvernement de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />négocier avec celui de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">Vénézuéla</placeName> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />détermination des limites entre le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">Brésil</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et cette <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">République</placeName>, c’est <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>sur tout</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">surtout</corr> </choice> dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vos importans travaux que j’ai trouvé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les données nécéssaires pour remplir ma <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />commission; et j’ai vu avec plaisir les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />limites déterminés dans la carte de Votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Excellence, proposées par le Plénipotentiaire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vénézuélien comme base de notre traité<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.2	p	J’ai l’honneur de vous donner <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connaissance de ce traité qui a été signé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le 25 novembre 1852 et dont Votre Excellence <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouvera une copie parmi les papiers ci-joints. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ce traité ayant été soumis à l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />approbation du Congrès de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">Vénézuela</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c674b25c-8296-476e-b4b2-5c8296676e06\" corresp=\"#bd6c27a2-139c-4fb3-ac27-a2139c7fb3e4\" type=\"editorialNote\"><supplied cert=\"high\">fut adopté par la Chambre des Senateurs</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bd6c27a2-139c-4fb3-ac27-a2139c7fb3e4\" corresp=\"#c674b25c-8296-476e-b4b2-5c8296676e06\" type=\"editorial\">„fut adopté par la Chambre des Senateurs“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/KTPWKWZF\">Cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 33.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en trois discussions, et par la Chambre des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Représentants dans une; mais lorsqu’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />s’agissait de l’approuver définitivement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une opposition dans le fond visée contre la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />personne du Plénipotentiaire vénézuélien, a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />réagi contre le traité lui<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>même; et cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opposition a été soulevée par des individus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui prétendaient aussi s’appuyer sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />travaux de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>V. Ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> ainsi que sur le traité <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 1777 entre le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008382 https://www.geonames.org/2264397\">Portugal</placeName> et l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010330 https://www.geonames.org/2510769\">Espagne</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.3	p	Le traité de 1777, comme <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>V. Ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connait, a stipulé, par rapport à la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />frontière de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName>, que les choses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seraient remises à l’état où elles se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouvaient en 1750; et dans les Voyages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>V. Ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> aux Régions Equinoxiales<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"right\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee\">übersezt aus <lb /><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/N4P8GVQH\"><choice> <abbr>Rel.</abbr> <expan>Relation</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>histor.</abbr> <expan>historique</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> 7 (Octavo)</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 302 dans <lb /><choice> <abbr>l’éd.</abbr> <expan>l’édition</expan> </choice> en <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DR2NAW3J\">4tº</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> II <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <hi rendition=\"#u\">416</hi> <lb />442, 448 <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">498</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">710</hi></note> je <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouve que „en 1755, antes de la expedicion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de límites, mas conocida bajo el nombre de ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />pedicion de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">Solano</persName>, toda esta comarca, entre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />las misiones de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">Javitá</placeName> y de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009817 https://www.geonames.org/3764169\">S. Baltazár</placeName>, era <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mirada como dependiente del <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">Brasil</placeName>. Los <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />portugueses se habian adelantado desde el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\"><lb />Rio Negro</placeName> por el <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> ó <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">arrastradero</hi> del <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/H0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">caño</hi> Pimichin</placeName>, hasta las márgenes del <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/H0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">Temi</placeName>. Un gefe indio llamado Javitá, célebre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />por <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b1b3492b-ba68-4ee6-b349-2bba68eee649\" corresp=\"#f00b29c2-b6c7-4796-8b29-c2b6c7679680\" type=\"editorialNote\">su valor y por su espíritu</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f00b29c2-b6c7-4796-8b29-c2b6c7679680\" corresp=\"#b1b3492b-ba68-4ee6-b349-2bba68eee649\" type=\"editorial\">In <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/CML3RCMW\">Humboldt 1826d</bibl> vielmehr: los valor y espíritu.</note> emprendedor, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />era el aliado de <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d28496b3-8933-4145-8496-b389330145bb\" corresp=\"#b78da208-c879-42fc-8da2-08c87902fcda\" type=\"editorialNote\">los</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b78da208-c879-42fc-8da2-08c87902fcda\" corresp=\"#d28496b3-8933-4145-8496-b389330145bb\" type=\"editorial\">In <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/CML3RCMW\">Humboldt 1826d </bibl>vielmehr: su</note> portugueses. Hacia sus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />incursiones hostíles desde el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010708\">rio Jupurá</placeName> ó <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" /> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a01da21d-a4c6-41d3-9da2-1da4c681d362\" corresp=\"#d1a3a018-3be9-4a93-a3a0-183be90a9389\" type=\"editorialNote\"><supplied cert=\"high\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">Coquetá</placeName> (uno de los grandes afluentes del</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d1a3a018-3be9-4a93-a3a0-183be90a9389\" corresp=\"#a01da21d-a4c6-41d3-9da2-1da4c681d362\" type=\"editorial\">„Coquetá (uno de los grandes afluentes del“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/KTPWKWZF\">Cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 33.</note> <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/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazónas</placeName>) por el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">rio Uaupé</placeName> y <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020660 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">Xié</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />casi hasta las aguas negras del <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">Temi</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />y del <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">Tuamini</placeName>, á una distancia de mas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de cien leguas. Estaba autorisado por <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />una patente &<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">ca</hi></hi>“ (Livre VII,<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr> chap.</abbr> <expan>chapitre</expan> </choice> XXII; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans la <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/CML3RCMW\">traduction espagnole</bibl>, tome 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi>. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>pag</abbr> <expan>pages</expan> </choice> 187 et 188.<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"continuedElsewhere\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee\">übersezt aus <lb /><choice> <abbr>Rel.</abbr> <expan>Relation</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>histor.</abbr> <expan>historique</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> 7 (Octavo) <lb /><choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 302 dans <lb /><choice> <abbr>l’éd.</abbr> <expan>l’édition</expan> </choice> en <choice> <abbr>4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">to</hi></abbr> <expan>Quarto</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> II <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <hi rendition=\"#u\">416</hi> <lb />442, 448 <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">498</hi><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <hi rendition=\"#u\">710</hi></note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.4	p	Je m’abstiens, pour ne pas trop fati<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />guer l’attention de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VE<hi rendition=\"#sup\">xc</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice>, de citer d’autres <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passages qui prouvent qu’avant 1755 et dès <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le 17<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">me</hi></hi> siècle, les portugais seuls <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parcouraient le pays arrosé par le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio <lb />Negro</placeName>, que les espagnols doutaient de l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />existence de la communication entre l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName> et l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazones</placeName>, et que ce fut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seulement en 1744 que le portugais <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/H0020795\">Francisco Xavier de Moraes</persName>, pénétrant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jusqu’à l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName>, y rencontra le Père <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/H0020820\">Roman</persName> et l’en emmena en sa compagnie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’établissement portugais de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">Javitá</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.5	p	En posant ces faits, en donnant cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />interprétation au traité de 1777, et en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sollicitant, pour les constater le haut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />témoignage de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice>, je n’ai pas la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moindre intention de faire valoir les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />droits que le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">Brésil</placeName> pourrait fonder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur eux: Vous aurez la preuve, Mons<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le Baron <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">en examinant les pièces ci-jointes</add>, des intentions conciliatrices <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b944587e-c17f-4e98-8458-7ec17f5e9802\" corresp=\"#b3282fc1-8c18-40b9-a82f-c18c18c0b92c\" type=\"editorialNote\"><supplied cert=\"high\">de mon gouvernement qui, en adoptant</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b3282fc1-8c18-40b9-a82f-c18c18c0b92c\" corresp=\"#b944587e-c17f-4e98-8458-7ec17f5e9802\" type=\"editorial\">„de mon gouvernement qui, en adoptant“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/KTPWKWZF\">Cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 34.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le principe de transaction de l’uti possidetis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 1810, principe qui a été consacré dans les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />traités (déjà ratifiés) du 12 octobre 1851 avec <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020857 https://www.geonames.org/3439705/oriental-republic-of-uruguay.html\">Uruguay</placeName> et du 23 octobre 1851 avec le <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/H0008229 https://www.geonames.org/3932488\">Pérou</placeName>, a abandon<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">n</supplied>é tous les avantages que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pouvait lui offrir le traité de 1777, y compris <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />celui de monopoliser la navigation du fleuve <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazones</placeName> inférieur, qu’il pourrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />réclamer fondé sur les articles 13<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> et 17<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du dit traité. Il s’agit seulement de faire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sentir à l’opposition capricieuse qui s’est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />soulevée à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007134 https://www.geonames.org/3646738\">Caracas</placeName> contre le traité de 25 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Novembre 1852 et qu’a paralysé sa marche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le Congrès, qu’en soutenant la vigueur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du traité de 1777 les Républiques espagnoles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />se priveraient elles<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>mêmes de la navigation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du fleuve des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazones</placeName>, et par rapport <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aux limites ne sortiraient jamais des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />interminables discussions sur l’interprétation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de ce traité, qui ont été conduites sans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />résultat par les commissions de démarcation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et qui n’ont pu jusqu’à ce jour obtenir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une solution satisfaisante.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.6	p	La bienveillance que <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> a toujours <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />manifestée envers les nations du nouveau <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />continent, les <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>regrêts</orig> <reg>regrets</reg> </choice> que je trouve exprimés <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans son ouvrage de ce que cette question <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" />de limites restât toujours dans un état <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />provisoire, me font espérer qu’elle <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daignera <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>acceuillir</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">accueillir</corr> </choice> favorablement la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />demande que je vais lui <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>adrésser</orig> <reg>adresser</reg> </choice>, en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rendant par là un nouveau service à l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150\">Amérique du Sud</placeName>, en contribuant à ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qu’une entente amicale, s’établisse entre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tous les États de ce Continent, pourqu’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ils puissent travailler d’accord à l’œuvre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficile de civiliser les riches contrées <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui forment le bassin du fleuve des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazones</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.7	p	Je prie <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> de vouloir bien résoudre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les questions suivantes:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.8	p	1<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">re</hi>. Avant l’expédition de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">Solano</persName>, c’est<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />à<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>dire, vers l’année 1750, la possession <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de fait des portugais sur le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001589\">Rio Negro</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>s’étentait-elle</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">s’étendait-elle</corr> </choice> au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Caciquiare</placeName>?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.9	p	2<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi>. Les limites du traité du 25 Novembre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />1852 sont-ils d’accord avec l’opinion que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> a manifestée et dévelop<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">p</supplied>ée dans ses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voyages aux régions équinoxiales ?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.10	p	Je présente aussi à la considération <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> les traités que j’ai <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>négotiés</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">négociés</corr> </choice> avec <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000448 https://www.geonames.org/3686110\">Nouvelle Grénade</placeName>, et qui dépendent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />encore de l’approbation du Congrès, en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la priant de vouloir bien manifester son <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opinion sur leur contenu. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>VEx<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Votre Excellence</expan> </choice> les trouvera à la suite du rapport <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />présenté au Président de cette République <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par le Plénipotentiaire granadin, le tout <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />imprimé dans la brochure ci-jointe.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.1	p	chargé par mon gouvernement de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />négocier avec celui de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">vénézuéla</placename> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />détermination des limites entre le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">brésil</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et cette <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">république</placename>, c’est <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>sur tout</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">surtout</corr> </choice> dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vos importans travaux que j’ai trouvé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les données nécéssaires pour remplir ma <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />commission; et j’ai vu avec plaisir les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />limites déterminés dans la carte de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />excellence, proposées par le plénipotentiaire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vénézuélien comme base de notre traité<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.2	p	j’ai l’honneur de vous donner <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connaissance de ce traité qui a été signé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le 25 novembre 1852 et dont votre excellence <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouvera une copie parmi les papiers ci-joints. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ce traité ayant été soumis à l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />approbation du congrès de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009117 https://www.geonames.org/3625428\">vénézuela</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c674b25c-8296-476e-b4b2-5c8296676e06\" corresp=\"#bd6c27a2-139c-4fb3-ac27-a2139c7fb3e4\" type=\"editorialnote\"><supplied cert=\"high\">fut adopté par la chambre des senateurs</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bd6c27a2-139c-4fb3-ac27-a2139c7fb3e4\" corresp=\"#c674b25c-8296-476e-b4b2-5c8296676e06\" type=\"editorial\">„fut adopté par la chambre des senateurs“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ktpwkwzf\">cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 33.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en trois discussions, et par la chambre des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />représentants dans une; mais lorsqu’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />s’agissait de l’approuver définitivement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une opposition dans le fond visée contre la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />personne du plénipotentiaire vénézuélien, a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />réagi contre le traité lui<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>même; et cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opposition a été soulevée par des individus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui prétendaient aussi s’appuyer sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />travaux de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>v. ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> ainsi que sur le traité <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 1777 entre le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008382 https://www.geonames.org/2264397\">portugal</placename> et l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010330 https://www.geonames.org/2510769\">espagne</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.3	p	le traité de 1777, comme <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>v. ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />connait, a stipulé, par rapport à la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />frontière de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename>, que les choses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seraient remises à l’état où elles se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouvaient en 1750; et dans les voyages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>v. ex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> aux régions equinoxiales<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"right\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee\">übersezt aus <lb /><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/n4p8gvqh\"><choice> <abbr>rel.</abbr> <expan>relation</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>histor.</abbr> <expan>historique</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> 7 (octavo)</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 302 dans <lb /><choice> <abbr>l’éd.</abbr> <expan>l’édition</expan> </choice> en <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dr2naw3j\">4tº</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> ii <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <hi rendition=\"#u\">416</hi> <lb />442, 448 <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">498</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">710</hi></note> je <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />trouve que „en 1755, antes de la expedicion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de límites, mas conocida bajo el nombre de ex<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />pedicion de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">solano</persname>, toda esta comarca, entre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />las misiones de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">javitá</placename> y de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009817 https://www.geonames.org/3764169\">s. baltazár</placename>, era <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mirada como dependiente del <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">brasil</placename>. los <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />portugueses se habian adelantado desde el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\"><lb />rio negro</placename> por el <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> ó <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">arrastradero</hi> del <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/h0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">caño</hi> pimichin</placename>, hasta las márgenes del <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/h0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">temi</placename>. un gefe indio llamado javitá, célebre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />por <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b1b3492b-ba68-4ee6-b349-2bba68eee649\" corresp=\"#f00b29c2-b6c7-4796-8b29-c2b6c7679680\" type=\"editorialnote\">su valor y por su espíritu</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f00b29c2-b6c7-4796-8b29-c2b6c7679680\" corresp=\"#b1b3492b-ba68-4ee6-b349-2bba68eee649\" type=\"editorial\">in <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/cml3rcmw\">humboldt 1826d</bibl> vielmehr: los valor y espíritu.</note> emprendedor, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />era el aliado de <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d28496b3-8933-4145-8496-b389330145bb\" corresp=\"#b78da208-c879-42fc-8da2-08c87902fcda\" type=\"editorialnote\">los</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b78da208-c879-42fc-8da2-08c87902fcda\" corresp=\"#d28496b3-8933-4145-8496-b389330145bb\" type=\"editorial\">in <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/cml3rcmw\">humboldt 1826d </bibl>vielmehr: su</note> portugueses. hacia sus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />incursiones hostíles desde el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010708\">rio jupurá</placename> ó <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" /> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a01da21d-a4c6-41d3-9da2-1da4c681d362\" corresp=\"#d1a3a018-3be9-4a93-a3a0-183be90a9389\" type=\"editorialnote\"><supplied cert=\"high\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">coquetá</placename> (uno de los grandes afluentes del</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d1a3a018-3be9-4a93-a3a0-183be90a9389\" corresp=\"#a01da21d-a4c6-41d3-9da2-1da4c681d362\" type=\"editorial\">„coquetá (uno de los grandes afluentes del“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ktpwkwzf\">cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 33.</note> <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/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazónas</placename>) por el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">rio uaupé</placename> y <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020660 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">xié</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />casi hasta las aguas negras del <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">temi</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />y del <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">tuamini</placename>, á una distancia de mas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de cien leguas. estaba autorisado por <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />una patente &<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">ca</hi></hi>“ (livre vii,<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr> chap.</abbr> <expan>chapitre</expan> </choice> xxii; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans la <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/cml3rcmw\">traduction espagnole</bibl>, tome 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi>. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>pag</abbr> <expan>pages</expan> </choice> 187 et 188.<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"continuedelsewhere\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee\">übersezt aus <lb /><choice> <abbr>rel.</abbr> <expan>relation</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>histor.</abbr> <expan>historique</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> 7 (octavo) <lb /><choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 302 dans <lb /><choice> <abbr>l’éd.</abbr> <expan>l’édition</expan> </choice> en <choice> <abbr>4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">to</hi></abbr> <expan>quarto</expan> </choice> <lb /><choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> ii <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <hi rendition=\"#u\">416</hi> <lb />442, 448 <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">498</hi><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <hi rendition=\"#u\">710</hi></note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.4	p	je m’abstiens, pour ne pas trop fati<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />guer l’attention de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ve<hi rendition=\"#sup\">xc</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice>, de citer d’autres <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passages qui prouvent qu’avant 1755 et dès <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le 17<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">me</hi></hi> siècle, les portugais seuls <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parcouraient le pays arrosé par le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio <lb />negro</placename>, que les espagnols doutaient de l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />existence de la communication entre l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename> et l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazones</placename>, et que ce fut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seulement en 1744 que le portugais <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/h0020795\">francisco xavier de moraes</persname>, pénétrant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jusqu’à l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename>, y rencontra le père <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/h0020820\">roman</persname> et l’en emmena en sa compagnie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’établissement portugais de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">javitá</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.5	p	en posant ces faits, en donnant cette <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />interprétation au traité de 1777, et en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sollicitant, pour les constater le haut <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />témoignage de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice>, je n’ai pas la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moindre intention de faire valoir les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />droits que le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005346 https://www.geonames.org/3469034\">brésil</placename> pourrait fonder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur eux: vous aurez la preuve, mons<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le baron <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">en examinant les pièces ci-jointes</add>, des intentions conciliatrices <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b944587e-c17f-4e98-8458-7ec17f5e9802\" corresp=\"#b3282fc1-8c18-40b9-a82f-c18c18c0b92c\" type=\"editorialnote\"><supplied cert=\"high\">de mon gouvernement qui, en adoptant</supplied></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b3282fc1-8c18-40b9-a82f-c18c18c0b92c\" corresp=\"#b944587e-c17f-4e98-8458-7ec17f5e9802\" type=\"editorial\">„de mon gouvernement qui, en adoptant“ ergänzt nach <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ktpwkwzf\">cotegipe 1870</bibl>, 34.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le principe de transaction de l’uti possidetis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de 1810, principe qui a été consacré dans les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />traités (déjà ratifiés) du 12 octobre 1851 avec <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020857 https://www.geonames.org/3439705/oriental-republic-of-uruguay.html\">uruguay</placename> et du 23 octobre 1851 avec le <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/h0008229 https://www.geonames.org/3932488\">pérou</placename>, a abandon<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">n</supplied>é tous les avantages que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pouvait lui offrir le traité de 1777, y compris <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />celui de monopoliser la navigation du fleuve <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazones</placename> inférieur, qu’il pourrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />réclamer fondé sur les articles 13<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> et 17<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du dit traité. il s’agit seulement de faire <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sentir à l’opposition capricieuse qui s’est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />soulevée à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007134 https://www.geonames.org/3646738\">caracas</placename> contre le traité de 25 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />novembre 1852 et qu’a paralysé sa marche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le congrès, qu’en soutenant la vigueur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du traité de 1777 les républiques espagnoles <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />se priveraient elles<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>mêmes de la navigation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du fleuve des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazones</placename>, et par rapport <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aux limites ne sortiraient jamais des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />interminables discussions sur l’interprétation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de ce traité, qui ont été conduites sans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />résultat par les commissions de démarcation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et qui n’ont pu jusqu’à ce jour obtenir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />une solution satisfaisante.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.6	p	la bienveillance que <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi></abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> a toujours <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />manifestée envers les nations du nouveau <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />continent, les <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>regrêts</orig> <reg>regrets</reg> </choice> que je trouve exprimés <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans son ouvrage de ce que cette question <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" />de limites restât toujours dans un état <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />provisoire, me font espérer qu’elle <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daignera <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>acceuillir</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">accueillir</corr> </choice> favorablement la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />demande que je vais lui <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>adrésser</orig> <reg>adresser</reg> </choice>, en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rendant par là un nouveau service à l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150\">amérique du sud</placename>, en contribuant à ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qu’une entente amicale, s’établisse entre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tous les États de ce continent, pourqu’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ils puissent travailler d’accord à l’œuvre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficile de civiliser les riches contrées <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui forment le bassin du fleuve des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazones</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.7	p	je prie <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> de vouloir bien résoudre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les questions suivantes:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.8	p	1<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">re</hi>. avant l’expédition de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">solano</persname>, c’est<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />à<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>dire, vers l’année 1750, la possession <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de fait des portugais sur le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001589\">rio negro</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>s’étentait-elle</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">s’étendait-elle</corr> </choice> au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">caciquiare</placename>?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.9	p	2<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi>. les limites du traité du 25 novembre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />1852 sont-ils d’accord avec l’opinion que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> a manifestée et dévelop<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">p</supplied>ée dans ses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voyages aux régions équinoxiales ?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020424:1.10	p	je présente aussi à la considération <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> les traités que j’ai <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>négotiés</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">négociés</corr> </choice> avec <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000448 https://www.geonames.org/3686110\">nouvelle grénade</placename>, et qui dépendent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />encore de l’approbation du congrès, en <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la priant de vouloir bien manifester son <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opinion sur leur contenu. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>vex<hi rendition=\"#sup\">ce</hi>.</abbr> <expan>votre excellence</expan> </choice> les trouvera à la suite du rapport <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />présenté au président de cette république <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par le plénipotentiaire granadin, le tout <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />imprimé dans la brochure ci-jointe.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.1	p	Durch Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seifert</persName> erhielt ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2WVKCKG3\">Ansichten der Natur</bibl> und den 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> Theil <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/I87MJXIR\">Kosmos</bibl> mit Inschriften welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich tief ergriffen haben. Nehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Sie meinen herzlichsten, innigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dank für diese Gaben an, deren Werth <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit jenen Inschriften ich nicht genug <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schätzen kann. Auch Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seifert</persName> bin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich für seine biedere und treue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Anhänglichkeit recht sehr verbunden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.2	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />Die <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2WVKCKG3\">Ansichten der Natur</bibl> tragen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Inschrift „<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">Berlin</placeName> Septr“; hätten Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doch den 14<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> dazu gefügt, der Tag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an welchem Sie Ihren 84. Geburtstag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />feierten. Das <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2WVKCKG3\">Buch</bibl><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bereits so theuer, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />würde mir dann dennoch lieber <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gewesen sein. Es bleibt aber mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehnlichster Wunsch<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß dieser Tag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ihnen noch recht vielmal, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in bester Gesundheit wiederfahren <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mag.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.3	p	Ich kann Ihnen nicht viel Erfreuliches <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von hier aus schreiben. Es ist ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schönes Land, allein der Menschenschlag<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welcher dasselbe bewohnt, ist verdorben, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />und bedarf in der Bevölkerung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine überwiegende Beimischung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des Angel-Sächsischen Elementes. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Während ich Ihnen schreibe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> drohen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neue innerliche Unruhen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.4	p	<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\"><choice> <abbr>Stº</abbr> <expan>Santo</expan> </choice> Domingo</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> von der Natur so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrlich ausgestattet, ist zu gleicher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeit eins jener Länder, welches <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verglichen mit seiner Größe, die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />größten Gräuelthaten gesehen hat. Jeder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zoll des Bodens scheint mit menschlichem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Blut getränkt zu sein. Das jetzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hier herrschende Elend scheint Wieder-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />Vergeltung zu sein, obgleich Er <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />welcher die Welt regiert, wohl kein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solches Wort in strenger Bedeutung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gegen das Menschengeschlecht kennt. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Streit und Hader, das Gegentheil <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">zum</del> <add place=\"across\">von</add> </subst> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ead0d0a1-ab81-4322-90d0-a1ab81532219\" corresp=\"#d9d98e3e-db17-497e-998e-3edb17097e43\" type=\"editorialNote\">Frieden auf Erden, und den <lb />Menschen ein Wohlgefallen</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d9d98e3e-db17-497e-998e-3edb17097e43\" corresp=\"#ead0d0a1-ab81-4322-90d0-a1ab81532219\" type=\"editorial\">Lukas 2:14.</note>, herrschen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unglücklicherweise hier vor.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.5	p	Wie unangenehm meine Lage <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />als Consul ist, können sich Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />leicht vorstellen, und würde <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"right\">dieselbe</add> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unertragbarer sein, hätte ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht meine wissenschaftlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Beschäfftigungen. So habe ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />denn auch hier Gelegenheit gefunden<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" />meine Kenntnisse zu vermehren; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und obgleich <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Santo Domingo</placeName> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erste Colonie war<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche eine Euro<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />päische Macht im Westen schaffte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so ist dieselbe hinsichtlich ihrer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />physikalischen Züge am wenigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bekannt. Was sagen Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dazu<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die Gebirgsketten <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/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Santo Domingo</placeName>’s Höhen enthalten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche jenen des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002606 https://www.geonames.org/2524810\">Etna</placeName> und <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/H0009940 https://www.geonames.org/2658828\"><choice> <abbr>St</abbr> <expan>Sankt</expan> </choice> Gotthard</placeName> sich nähern. Ich habe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine Berechnungen noch nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beendigt, bin aber gewiß<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einige der Berge <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"9000\" unit=\"foot\">9000 Fuß</measure> über<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />schreiten und nahe an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10000 Fuß <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>Englisch</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" />kommen. Ich glaube<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> Geographen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vermutheten nicht<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Santo <lb />Domingo</placeName> solche Höhen besitze, obgleich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005261 https://www.geonames.org/3490278\">Blue Mountains</placeName> in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006552 https://www.geonames.org/3489940\">Jamaica</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nahe an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"8000\" unit=\"foot\">8000 <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>Englische</expan> </choice> Fuß</measure> erreichen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.6	p	Meine Karte von <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Santo <lb />Domingo</placeName> schreitet schnell der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Beendigung entgegen. Ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fühle daher sehr die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fortwährende Verspätigung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Erfüllung meiner Bitte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an die Herren Professoren <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/H0001040 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116609036\">Rose</persName> und <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001377 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116235454\">Klotzsch</persName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von mir von hier aus ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sandten Steine und Pflanzen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4r\" />zu bestimmen, und bitte daher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz recht sehr, für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich bei diesen Herren ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gütiges Fürwort einzulegen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ich bin genöthigt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> meine Beschreibung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Insel</placeName> zu verspätigen, bis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jene großen desiderata <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />angekommen sind. Entschuldigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Excellenz die Mühe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Abgabe der Einlagen verbunden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.1	p	durch herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seifert</persname> erhielt ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2wvkckg3\">ansichten der natur</bibl> und den 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> theil <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/i87mjxir\">kosmos</bibl> mit inschriften welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich tief ergriffen haben. nehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sie meinen herzlichsten, innigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dank für diese gaben an, deren werth <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit jenen inschriften ich nicht genug <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schätzen kann. auch herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seifert</persname> bin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich für seine biedere und treue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anhänglichkeit recht sehr verbunden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.2	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />die <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2wvkckg3\">ansichten der natur</bibl> tragen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />inschrift „<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">berlin</placename> septr“; hätten excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doch den 14<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> dazu gefügt, der tag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an welchem sie ihren 84. geburtstag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />feierten. das <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2wvkckg3\">buch</bibl><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bereits so theuer, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />würde mir dann dennoch lieber <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gewesen sein. es bleibt aber mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehnlichster wunsch<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß dieser tag <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ihnen noch recht vielmal, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in bester gesundheit wiederfahren <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mag.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.3	p	ich kann ihnen nicht viel erfreuliches <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von hier aus schreiben. es ist ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schönes land, allein der menschenschlag<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welcher dasselbe bewohnt, ist verdorben, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />und bedarf in der bevölkerung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine überwiegende beimischung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des angel-sächsischen elementes. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />während ich ihnen schreibe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> drohen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neue innerliche unruhen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.4	p	<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\"><choice> <abbr>stº</abbr> <expan>santo</expan> </choice> domingo</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> von der natur so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrlich ausgestattet, ist zu gleicher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeit eins jener länder, welches <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verglichen mit seiner größe, die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />größten gräuelthaten gesehen hat. jeder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zoll des bodens scheint mit menschlichem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />blut getränkt zu sein. das jetzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hier herrschende elend scheint wieder-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />vergeltung zu sein, obgleich er <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />welcher die welt regiert, wohl kein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solches wort in strenger bedeutung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gegen das menschengeschlecht kennt. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />streit und hader, das gegentheil <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">zum</del> <add place=\"across\">von</add> </subst> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ead0d0a1-ab81-4322-90d0-a1ab81532219\" corresp=\"#d9d98e3e-db17-497e-998e-3edb17097e43\" type=\"editorialnote\">frieden auf erden, und den <lb />menschen ein wohlgefallen</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"d9d98e3e-db17-497e-998e-3edb17097e43\" corresp=\"#ead0d0a1-ab81-4322-90d0-a1ab81532219\" type=\"editorial\">lukas 2:14.</note>, herrschen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unglücklicherweise hier vor.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.5	p	wie unangenehm meine lage <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />als consul ist, können sich excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />leicht vorstellen, und würde <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"right\">dieselbe</add> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unertragbarer sein, hätte ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht meine wissenschaftlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beschäfftigungen. so habe ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />denn auch hier gelegenheit gefunden<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" />meine kenntnisse zu vermehren; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und obgleich <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">santo domingo</placename> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erste colonie war<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche eine euro<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />päische macht im westen schaffte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so ist dieselbe hinsichtlich ihrer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />physikalischen züge am wenigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bekannt. was sagen excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dazu<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die gebirgsketten <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/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">santo domingo</placename>’s höhen enthalten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche jenen des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002606 https://www.geonames.org/2524810\">etna</placename> und <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/h0009940 https://www.geonames.org/2658828\"><choice> <abbr>st</abbr> <expan>sankt</expan> </choice> gotthard</placename> sich nähern. ich habe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine berechnungen noch nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beendigt, bin aber gewiß<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einige der berge <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"9000\" unit=\"foot\">9000 fuß</measure> über<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />schreiten und nahe an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"10000\" unit=\"foot\">10000 fuß <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>englisch</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" />kommen. ich glaube<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> geographen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vermutheten nicht<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">santo <lb />domingo</placename> solche höhen besitze, obgleich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005261 https://www.geonames.org/3490278\">blue mountains</placename> in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006552 https://www.geonames.org/3489940\">jamaica</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nahe an <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"8000\" unit=\"foot\">8000 <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>englische</expan> </choice> fuß</measure> erreichen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020425:1.6	p	meine karte von <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">santo <lb />domingo</placename> schreitet schnell der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beendigung entgegen. ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fühle daher sehr die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fortwährende verspätigung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der erfüllung meiner bitte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an die herren professoren <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/h0001040 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116609036\">rose</persname> und <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001377 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116235454\">klotzsch</persname><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von mir von hier aus ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sandten steine und pflanzen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4r\" />zu bestimmen, und bitte daher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz recht sehr, für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich bei diesen herren ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gütiges fürwort einzulegen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich bin genöthigt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> meine beschreibung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">insel</placename> zu verspätigen, bis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jene großen desiderata <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />angekommen sind. entschuldigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />excellenz die mühe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der abgabe der einlagen verbunden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.1	p	In wenigen Tagen wird es ein Jahr, daß ich mir erlaubte, Ihnen Kunde über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unser Leben und Treiben zuzusenden, und wir waren daher mehr als überrascht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />als wir mit der jüngsten Mail vom Bruder <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Robert</persName> einen Brief erhielten, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welchem er uns mittheilte, daß Euer Excellenz seit langer, langer Zeit keine Nachricht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von uns erhalten. – Wir können uns dies auf keine Weise erklären, als ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seit meiner erfolglosen Rückkehr von den Goldgruben <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020869 https://www.geonames.org/2145234\">Victoria</placeName>’s <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ae2f315b-4d91-42b8-af31-5b4d9172b859\" corresp=\"#fb6b7944-9289-4956-ab79-449289a95645\" type=\"editorialNote\">zweimal Euer <lb />Excellenz Kunde von uns gab</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb6b7944-9289-4956-ab79-449289a95645\" corresp=\"#ae2f315b-4d91-42b8-af31-5b4d9172b859\" type=\"editorial\">Diese Briefe <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">Otto Schomburgk</persName>s an Humboldt konnte bislang nicht nachgewiesen werden.</note> und sind von dem Verlorengehen dieser Briefe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um so schmerzlicher berührt, als uns das scheinbare Schweigen in einem Lichte er<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />scheinen lassen muß, in welchem wir um nichts in der Welt gerade Euer Excel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lenz erscheinen möchten. Welches Fatum über diesen unseren Briefen gewaltet, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kann ich nicht begreifen – aber das kann ich bei der tiefen Achtung und Ver<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ehrung und der innigen Liebe, welche unser Inneres zu Eurer Excellenz be<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />seelt, versichern, daß wir die Schuld nicht tragen, daß Euer Excellenz kein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeichen unseres Lebens zugekommen ist, daß wir uns einer Schuld theilhaftig <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gemacht, die Niemand tiefer fühlen würde, als wir, die wir um so tiefer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fühlen müßten, als uns <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Robert</persName>s Brief die so belebende und ermuthigende <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Ueberzeung</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Ueberzeugung</corr> </choice> giebt, daß Euer Excellenz unserer immer noch in der alten Theilnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an unserem Ergehen gedenkt. Die jüngste mittelbare Kunde von uns<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">,</add> bat ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Professor <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130X\">Ritter</persName>, dem ich im Mai schrieb, Ihnen von uns zu bringen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.2	p	Möge diese Versicherung dazu beitragen, das trübe Licht zu verscheuchen, in welchem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wir Euer Excellenz vor derselben erscheinen mußten; möge uns die Theilnahme, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die ja Euer Excellenz so unverdient an uns genommen, uns ungeschmälert <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleiben, da sie der Stolz unseres Lebens war und für unser ganzes Leben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleiben wird; – ja jeder Blick auf das Portrait Euer Excellenz, wie auf <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />das <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003735 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116817569\">Leopold von Buch</persName>’s, welche beide vereint die höchste Zierde unserer einfachen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Behausung bilden, müßte uns sonst eines Vergehens anklagen, dessen wir bei <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />all’ unseren Schwächen doch nicht fähig sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.3	p	Manche trübe, aber auch manche heitere und erfrischende Stunde ist an uns vorü<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ber gegangen, – doch die Zeit wo äußere, harte Sorgen uns drückten, liegt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gott sei Dank, hinter uns und wir dürfen gegenwärtig mit ruhigeren Blicken <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in die Zukunft schauen! – Ist auch noch mancher Berg zu übersteigen, na<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mentlich das nächste Jahr, da wir dieses Jahr mit einer vollkommenen Miß<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />erndte heimgesucht worden sind, so daß sich die ältesten Colonisten weder einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solchen, noch einer so excessiven <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Dürrüng</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Dürrung</corr> </choice> entsinnen können, so trifft uns die<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser Mißwachs doch beiweiten nicht so hart, als er uns noch vor zwei Jahren ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />troffen habe würde. Unsere <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Ponth</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Pond</corr> </choice>ausflüsse sind fast alle schon ausgetrock<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />net, viele der <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Bäumen</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Bäume</corr> </choice> sind ihnen bereits gefolgt, weshalb in manchen Ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />genden die Bewohner dem Sommer mit Bangen entgegensehen. Ueberhaupt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hat dieses Jahr auffallende meteorologische Erscheinungen geboten. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Heise</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Heiße</corr> </choice> Winde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Mitte September (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"34\" unit=\"reaumur\">34° <choice> <abbr>R</abbr> <expan>Réaumur</expan> </choice></measure>) und harte Fröste gegen Ende October (−2° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>R</abbr> <expan>Réaumur</expan> </choice>), wobei die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Wechsel so nahe aneinander lagen, daß ein Zeitraum von wenig Stunden, mehr<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mals eine Differenz von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"reaumur\">20°</measure>–<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24\" unit=\"reaumur\">24° <choice> <abbr>R</abbr> <expan>Réaumur</expan> </choice></measure> in sich schloß. Vor einigen Tagen hatten wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />2 Uhr p. m. <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"29\" unit=\"reaumur\">29° <choice> <abbr>R.</abbr> <expan>Réaumur</expan> </choice></measure><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">,</add> neun Uhr Abends <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21\" unit=\"reaumur\">21° <choice> <abbr>R</abbr> <expan>éaumur</expan> </choice></measure>, und <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5\" unit=\"reaumur\">5° <choice> <abbr>R</abbr> <expan>Réaumur</expan> </choice></measure> im Laufe der Nacht. Zu diesen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ununterbrochenen Wechseln, die fast nie von Regenschauern, dagegen aber von hef<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tigen <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">St</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">Oststürmen</add> </subst> und den auffallendsten Barometerschwankungen begleitet <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />waren, gesellten sich zwei Hagelwetter, die enorme Verheerungen angerichtet. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Das eine derselben bestand eigentlich in dem Falle von wahrhaften Eisklumpen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so daß Pferde, Kühe und Schaafe von letzteren erschlagen wurden. Eine Entladung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Electricität im Gewitter fand nur einmal statt, und zwar bei dem er<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wähnten Hagelschlag. Vom Hagel und Frost ist unsere Besitzung, Gott sei <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dank, nur wenig berührt worden. Die Dürrung dagegen hat uns doppelt heim<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gesucht, so daß alle Hoffnung auf eine Weinerndte verschwunden, was wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um so mehr beklagen, als der Versuch der vorigen Erndte uns bewiesen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">Buchsfelde</placeName>r <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b4fd52ce-f058-4739-bd52-cef058b739a3\" corresp=\"#be50b021-cc6b-45f4-90b0-21cc6b65f43b\" type=\"editorialNote\">Ausbruch</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"be50b021-cc6b-45f4-90b0-21cc6b65f43b\" corresp=\"#b4fd52ce-f058-4739-bd52-cef058b739a3\" type=\"editorial\">Süßwein.</note> jedenfalls mit den ersten Rang in der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Colonie</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einnehmen wird. Der Frost allein hat mehr als <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"60\" unit=\"acre_of_land\">60 Acres</measure> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Vitis\">Wein</name>pflanzungen in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Colonie</placeName> vernichtet.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.4	p	In jeder anderen Beziehung gehet die <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Colonie</placeName>, obschon wir bisher noch keine ergiebigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Goldfelder in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Südaustralien</placeName> aufgefunden, dem glücklichen Auffinden solcher ist vom ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />setzgebenden Rathe eine Belohnung von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">5000 £</measure> votirt, zu denen ein Privatverein noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7r\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\"><subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">50</del> <add place=\"continuedElsewhere\">5000</add> </subst> £</measure> hinzufügt, wacker voran und dausende von Acres sind <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">bereits</add> dieses Jahr dem culti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />virten Theile der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Colonie</placeName> hinzugefügt worden. Mit der Cultur des Landes schreiten dessen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gesammtverhältnisse gleichen Schrittes vorwärts. Eine Eisenbahn von der Stadt <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">Adelaide</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nach dem Hafen gehet ihrer Vollendung entgegen, eine zweite von <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">Adelaide</placeName> nach <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019740 https://www.geonames.org/2071059\">Gaw<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lertown</placeName>, den <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020540 https://www.geonames.org/2068734\">Kapunda</placeName>- und <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020915 https://www.geonames.org/2075308\">Burra</placeName>-Kupferminen hat vorige Woche die Sanction des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gesetzgebenden Rathes in der dritten Lesung erhalten; welches letztere Unternehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />namentlich auch für uns vo<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">m</del> <add place=\"across\">n</add> </subst> wesentlichem Nutzen ist, da die erste Hauptstation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nur eine halbe Stunde von unserer kleinen Besitzung errichtet werden wird. Die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Schiffbarmachung des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020609 https://www.geonames.org/8615632\">Murray</placeName>, auf welchem bereits drei <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">S</del> <add place=\"across\">D</add> </subst>ampfschiffe bis in das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Herz von <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017216 https://www.geonames.org/2155400\">New South Wales</placeName> und <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020869 https://www.geonames.org/2145234\">Victoria</placeName> gehen, so daß ein großer Theil des Trans<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />situhandels <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">der Wollproduction</add> aus <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>dem</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">den</corr> </choice> südöstlichen und südwestlichen Theilen der beiden genannten Colonien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />über <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020644 https://www.geonames.org/2063051\">Port Elliot</placeName> gehet, wird <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Südaustralien</placeName> immer mehr Bedeutung verschaffen, wozu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />namentlich auch die freien Institutionen beitragen, deren wir uns hier gegen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beiden übrigen Colonien erfreuen. Unsere Municipalverfassung dürfte jedenfalls die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />freieste aller civilisirten Staaten sein, da die Besteurung, Verwendung der Gelder, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Verbesserung der Communalstraßen, der Aufbau von Schulen etc. etc. unbeschränkt in die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Hände der Steuerpflichtigen der einzelnen Districte und deren Vertreter gelegt ist, zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welchen jährlich fünf Districtsräthe von den Steuerpflichtigen in freier Wahl gewählt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden. Wahlberechtigt und wählbar zum Districtsrath ist jeder Unbescholtene<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sobald er eine <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">Rente</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">Grundrente</add> </subst> von jährlich <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">einem Pfund Sterling</measure> bezahlt, oder ein Grundstück <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besitzt, welches <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">1 £</measure> einbringt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.5	p	Die traurigen europäischen Verhältnisse dürften uns nur mittelbar berühren, obschon wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uns gewissermaßen auch dagegen in Bezug auf eintretende Möglichkeiten in einem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />allgemeinen Milizgesetze und der vorläufigen Bildung eines Küstencorps von 1000 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Mann freiwilliger Yeomen geschützt haben.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.6	p	So sehen Euer Excellenz, daß wir in jeder Beziehung einer gedeihlichen Zukunft hier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in Südaustralien entgegen gehen, die uns auch jedenfalls werden wird, da die Ent<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wicklungsfähigkeit zu einer solchen nicht allein in dem Boden, sondern auch in der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bevölkerung liegt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.7	p	Leider habe ich, mit Ausnahme meiner einfachen meteorologischen Beobachtungen, noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wenig wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen anstellen können, und wohl hatte unser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />edler, väterlicher Freund <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003735 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116817569\"><choice> <abbr>L.</abbr> <expan>Leopold</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>v.</abbr> <expan>von</expan> </choice> Buch</persName> recht, als er mir in dem letzten seiner Briefe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schrieb: „Die Musen sind nimmer dem Manne hinter dem Pfluge hold!“ Doch auch hierin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7v\" />sehe ich bereits im nächsten Jahre einer wesentlichen Veränderung entgegen, da un<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser Gesammtgrundstück gegenwärtig ganz der Mutter Natur entrissen und der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Cultur übergeben ist, und mir so manche Stunde zur Beschäftigung übrig bleiben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird, die früher die Urbarmachung des Bodens gebieterisch erheischte.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.8	p	Zu den tief schmerzlichen und trüben Stunden dieses Jahres gehörte namentlich der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Verlust auch meines zweiten Kindes, einer <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020832\">Tochter</persName>, die ihrem vorangegangenen Bruder, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wenige Wochen nach der Geburt, folgte. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">Richard</persName>’s Familie, zwei ächte südaustra<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lische <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ddaf3c68-a6be-48ce-af3c-68a6be98ce94\" corresp=\"#ffd78b9e-c2c4-4a8e-978b-9ec2c46a8ed5\" type=\"editorialNote\">Mädchen</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ffd78b9e-c2c4-4a8e-978b-9ec2c46a8ed5\" corresp=\"#ddaf3c68-a6be-48ce-af3c-68a6be98ce94\" type=\"editorial\"> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020831\">Friederike Antonia</persName> und <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020833\">Marie Caroline Schomburgk</persName>.</note>, wächst gedeihlich heran, und wird in kurzer Zeit um ein <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020829\">drittes<lb break=\"no\" />Kind</persName> vermehrt werden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.9	p	Daß Euer Excellenz im Laufe dieses Jahres Ihr fünzigjähriges Jubiläum als <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Mitglied der <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000569 http://d-nb.info/gnd/35495-8\">Akademie der Wissenschaften</orgName> gefeiert, haben wir mit tiefem Interesse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vorige Woche in unseren Colonialzeitungen gelesen. Sie mögen daraus ersehen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß die Bevölkerung <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">Südaustralien</placeName>s auch dafür Sinn hat, was Ihnen auch die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bildung eines wissenschaftlichen Vereins beweisen mag, der seit einiger Zeit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">ins</del> <add place=\"across\">in</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">Adelaide</placeName> in’s Leben getreten ist. Die Gelder zur Anlegung eines bota<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nischen Gartens und dem Aufbau eines Colonialmuseums, wie einer Bibliothek, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sind ebenfalls im Laufe dieser Sitzung des gesetzgebenden Rathes bewilligt wor<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />den.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.10	p	Doch ich muß schließen, um Euer Excellenz mit meiner Geschwätzigkeit nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lästig zu fallen. Dürfte ich Euer Excellenz ersuchen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der Familie Seiffert unsere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Grüße zu sagen?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.11	p	Möge der Allmächtige Ihr theures Leben auch fortan in seinen gnädigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Schutz nehmen; – möge er uns Ihre Theilnahme erhalten, dies ist der innigste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Wunsch aller Herzen, die unter dem einfachen Dache zu <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">Buchsfelde</placeName> schlagen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Nehmen Sie diese Versicherung als den einfachen Ausdruck unser Aller, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die uns bisher so tausendfach bewiesene Liebe giebt uns die sicherste Bürg<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />schaft dafür.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.1	p	in wenigen tagen wird es ein jahr, daß ich mir erlaubte, ihnen kunde über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unser leben und treiben zuzusenden, und wir waren daher mehr als überrascht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />als wir mit der jüngsten mail vom bruder <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">robert</persname> einen brief erhielten, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welchem er uns mittheilte, daß euer excellenz seit langer, langer zeit keine nachricht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von uns erhalten. – wir können uns dies auf keine weise erklären, als ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seit meiner erfolglosen rückkehr von den goldgruben <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020869 https://www.geonames.org/2145234\">victoria</placename>’s <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ae2f315b-4d91-42b8-af31-5b4d9172b859\" corresp=\"#fb6b7944-9289-4956-ab79-449289a95645\" type=\"editorialnote\">zweimal euer <lb />excellenz kunde von uns gab</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb6b7944-9289-4956-ab79-449289a95645\" corresp=\"#ae2f315b-4d91-42b8-af31-5b4d9172b859\" type=\"editorial\">diese briefe <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">otto schomburgk</persname>s an humboldt konnte bislang nicht nachgewiesen werden.</note> und sind von dem verlorengehen dieser briefe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um so schmerzlicher berührt, als uns das scheinbare schweigen in einem lichte er<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />scheinen lassen muß, in welchem wir um nichts in der welt gerade euer excel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lenz erscheinen möchten. welches fatum über diesen unseren briefen gewaltet, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kann ich nicht begreifen – aber das kann ich bei der tiefen achtung und ver<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ehrung und der innigen liebe, welche unser inneres zu eurer excellenz be<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />seelt, versichern, daß wir die schuld nicht tragen, daß euer excellenz kein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeichen unseres lebens zugekommen ist, daß wir uns einer schuld theilhaftig <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gemacht, die niemand tiefer fühlen würde, als wir, die wir um so tiefer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fühlen müßten, als uns <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">robert</persname>s brief die so belebende und ermuthigende <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>ueberzeung</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">ueberzeugung</corr> </choice> giebt, daß euer excellenz unserer immer noch in der alten theilnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an unserem ergehen gedenkt. die jüngste mittelbare kunde von uns<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">,</add> bat ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />professor <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000936 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11860130x\">ritter</persname>, dem ich im mai schrieb, ihnen von uns zu bringen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.2	p	möge diese versicherung dazu beitragen, das trübe licht zu verscheuchen, in welchem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wir euer excellenz vor derselben erscheinen mußten; möge uns die theilnahme, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die ja euer excellenz so unverdient an uns genommen, uns ungeschmälert <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleiben, da sie der stolz unseres lebens war und für unser ganzes leben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleiben wird; – ja jeder blick auf das portrait euer excellenz, wie auf <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />das <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003735 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116817569\">leopold von buch</persname>’s, welche beide vereint die höchste zierde unserer einfachen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />behausung bilden, müßte uns sonst eines vergehens anklagen, dessen wir bei <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />all’ unseren schwächen doch nicht fähig sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.3	p	manche trübe, aber auch manche heitere und erfrischende stunde ist an uns vorü<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ber gegangen, – doch die zeit wo äußere, harte sorgen uns drückten, liegt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gott sei dank, hinter uns und wir dürfen gegenwärtig mit ruhigeren blicken <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in die zukunft schauen! – ist auch noch mancher berg zu übersteigen, na<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mentlich das nächste jahr, da wir dieses jahr mit einer vollkommenen miß<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />erndte heimgesucht worden sind, so daß sich die ältesten colonisten weder einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solchen, noch einer so excessiven <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>dürrüng</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">dürrung</corr> </choice> entsinnen können, so trifft uns die<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser mißwachs doch beiweiten nicht so hart, als er uns noch vor zwei jahren ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />troffen habe würde. unsere <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>ponth</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">pond</corr> </choice>ausflüsse sind fast alle schon ausgetrock<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />net, viele der <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>bäumen</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">bäume</corr> </choice> sind ihnen bereits gefolgt, weshalb in manchen ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />genden die bewohner dem sommer mit bangen entgegensehen. ueberhaupt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hat dieses jahr auffallende meteorologische erscheinungen geboten. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>heise</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">heiße</corr> </choice> winde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mitte september (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"34\" unit=\"reaumur\">34° <choice> <abbr>r</abbr> <expan>réaumur</expan> </choice></measure>) und harte fröste gegen ende october (−2° <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>r</abbr> <expan>réaumur</expan> </choice>), wobei die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wechsel so nahe aneinander lagen, daß ein zeitraum von wenig stunden, mehr<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mals eine differenz von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"reaumur\">20°</measure>–<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"24\" unit=\"reaumur\">24° <choice> <abbr>r</abbr> <expan>réaumur</expan> </choice></measure> in sich schloß. vor einigen tagen hatten wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />2 uhr p. m. <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"29\" unit=\"reaumur\">29° <choice> <abbr>r.</abbr> <expan>réaumur</expan> </choice></measure><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">,</add> neun uhr abends <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"21\" unit=\"reaumur\">21° <choice> <abbr>r</abbr> <expan>éaumur</expan> </choice></measure>, und <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5\" unit=\"reaumur\">5° <choice> <abbr>r</abbr> <expan>réaumur</expan> </choice></measure> im laufe der nacht. zu diesen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ununterbrochenen wechseln, die fast nie von regenschauern, dagegen aber von hef<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tigen <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">st</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">oststürmen</add> </subst> und den auffallendsten barometerschwankungen begleitet <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />waren, gesellten sich zwei hagelwetter, die enorme verheerungen angerichtet. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />das eine derselben bestand eigentlich in dem falle von wahrhaften eisklumpen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so daß pferde, kühe und schaafe von letzteren erschlagen wurden. eine entladung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der electricität im gewitter fand nur einmal statt, und zwar bei dem er<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wähnten hagelschlag. vom hagel und frost ist unsere besitzung, gott sei <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dank, nur wenig berührt worden. die dürrung dagegen hat uns doppelt heim<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gesucht, so daß alle hoffnung auf eine weinerndte verschwunden, was wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um so mehr beklagen, als der versuch der vorigen erndte uns bewiesen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">buchsfelde</placename>r <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b4fd52ce-f058-4739-bd52-cef058b739a3\" corresp=\"#be50b021-cc6b-45f4-90b0-21cc6b65f43b\" type=\"editorialnote\">ausbruch</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"be50b021-cc6b-45f4-90b0-21cc6b65f43b\" corresp=\"#b4fd52ce-f058-4739-bd52-cef058b739a3\" type=\"editorial\">süßwein.</note> jedenfalls mit den ersten rang in der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">colonie</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einnehmen wird. der frost allein hat mehr als <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"60\" unit=\"acre_of_land\">60 acres</measure> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"vitis\">wein</name>pflanzungen in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">colonie</placename> vernichtet.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.4	p	in jeder anderen beziehung gehet die <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">colonie</placename>, obschon wir bisher noch keine ergiebigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />goldfelder in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">südaustralien</placename> aufgefunden, dem glücklichen auffinden solcher ist vom ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />setzgebenden rathe eine belohnung von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">5000 £</measure> votirt, zu denen ein privatverein noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7r\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"5000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\"><subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">50</del> <add place=\"continuedelsewhere\">5000</add> </subst> £</measure> hinzufügt, wacker voran und dausende von acres sind <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">bereits</add> dieses jahr dem culti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />virten theile der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">colonie</placename> hinzugefügt worden. mit der cultur des landes schreiten dessen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gesammtverhältnisse gleichen schrittes vorwärts. eine eisenbahn von der stadt <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">adelaide</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nach dem hafen gehet ihrer vollendung entgegen, eine zweite von <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">adelaide</placename> nach <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019740 https://www.geonames.org/2071059\">gaw<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lertown</placename>, den <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020540 https://www.geonames.org/2068734\">kapunda</placename>- und <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020915 https://www.geonames.org/2075308\">burra</placename>-kupferminen hat vorige woche die sanction des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gesetzgebenden rathes in der dritten lesung erhalten; welches letztere unternehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />namentlich auch für uns vo<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">m</del> <add place=\"across\">n</add> </subst> wesentlichem nutzen ist, da die erste hauptstation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nur eine halbe stunde von unserer kleinen besitzung errichtet werden wird. die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schiffbarmachung des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020609 https://www.geonames.org/8615632\">murray</placename>, auf welchem bereits drei <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst>ampfschiffe bis in das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herz von <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017216 https://www.geonames.org/2155400\">new south wales</placename> und <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020869 https://www.geonames.org/2145234\">victoria</placename> gehen, so daß ein großer theil des trans<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />situhandels <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">der wollproduction</add> aus <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>dem</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">den</corr> </choice> südöstlichen und südwestlichen theilen der beiden genannten colonien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />über <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020644 https://www.geonames.org/2063051\">port elliot</placename> gehet, wird <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">südaustralien</placename> immer mehr bedeutung verschaffen, wozu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />namentlich auch die freien institutionen beitragen, deren wir uns hier gegen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beiden übrigen colonien erfreuen. unsere municipalverfassung dürfte jedenfalls die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />freieste aller civilisirten staaten sein, da die besteurung, verwendung der gelder, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verbesserung der communalstraßen, der aufbau von schulen etc. etc. unbeschränkt in die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hände der steuerpflichtigen der einzelnen districte und deren vertreter gelegt ist, zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welchen jährlich fünf districtsräthe von den steuerpflichtigen in freier wahl gewählt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden. wahlberechtigt und wählbar zum districtsrath ist jeder unbescholtene<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sobald er eine <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">rente</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">grundrente</add> </subst> von jährlich <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">einem pfund sterling</measure> bezahlt, oder ein grundstück <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besitzt, welches <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">1 £</measure> einbringt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.5	p	die traurigen europäischen verhältnisse dürften uns nur mittelbar berühren, obschon wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uns gewissermaßen auch dagegen in bezug auf eintretende möglichkeiten in einem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />allgemeinen milizgesetze und der vorläufigen bildung eines küstencorps von 1000 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mann freiwilliger yeomen geschützt haben.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.6	p	so sehen euer excellenz, daß wir in jeder beziehung einer gedeihlichen zukunft hier <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in südaustralien entgegen gehen, die uns auch jedenfalls werden wird, da die ent<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wicklungsfähigkeit zu einer solchen nicht allein in dem boden, sondern auch in der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bevölkerung liegt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.7	p	leider habe ich, mit ausnahme meiner einfachen meteorologischen beobachtungen, noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wenig wissenschaftliche untersuchungen anstellen können, und wohl hatte unser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />edler, väterlicher freund <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003735 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116817569\"><choice> <abbr>l.</abbr> <expan>leopold</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>v.</abbr> <expan>von</expan> </choice> buch</persname> recht, als er mir in dem letzten seiner briefe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schrieb: „die musen sind nimmer dem manne hinter dem pfluge hold!“ doch auch hierin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7v\" />sehe ich bereits im nächsten jahre einer wesentlichen veränderung entgegen, da un<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />ser gesammtgrundstück gegenwärtig ganz der mutter natur entrissen und der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cultur übergeben ist, und mir so manche stunde zur beschäftigung übrig bleiben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird, die früher die urbarmachung des bodens gebieterisch erheischte.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.8	p	zu den tief schmerzlichen und trüben stunden dieses jahres gehörte namentlich der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verlust auch meines zweiten kindes, einer <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020832\">tochter</persname>, die ihrem vorangegangenen bruder, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wenige wochen nach der geburt, folgte. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">richard</persname>’s familie, zwei ächte südaustra<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lische <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ddaf3c68-a6be-48ce-af3c-68a6be98ce94\" corresp=\"#ffd78b9e-c2c4-4a8e-978b-9ec2c46a8ed5\" type=\"editorialnote\">mädchen</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ffd78b9e-c2c4-4a8e-978b-9ec2c46a8ed5\" corresp=\"#ddaf3c68-a6be-48ce-af3c-68a6be98ce94\" type=\"editorial\"> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020831\">friederike antonia</persname> und <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020833\">marie caroline schomburgk</persname>.</note>, wächst gedeihlich heran, und wird in kurzer zeit um ein <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020829\">drittes<lb break=\"no\" />kind</persname> vermehrt werden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.9	p	daß euer excellenz im laufe dieses jahres ihr fünzigjähriges jubiläum als <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mitglied der <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000569 http://d-nb.info/gnd/35495-8\">akademie der wissenschaften</orgname> gefeiert, haben wir mit tiefem interesse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vorige woche in unseren colonialzeitungen gelesen. sie mögen daraus ersehen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß die bevölkerung <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020690 https://www.geonames.org/2061327\">südaustralien</placename>s auch dafür sinn hat, was ihnen auch die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bildung eines wissenschaftlichen vereins beweisen mag, der seit einiger zeit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">ins</del> <add place=\"across\">in</add> </subst> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020300 https://www.geonames.org/11523825\">adelaide</placename> in’s leben getreten ist. die gelder zur anlegung eines bota<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nischen gartens und dem aufbau eines colonialmuseums, wie einer bibliothek, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sind ebenfalls im laufe dieser sitzung des gesetzgebenden rathes bewilligt wor<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />den.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.10	p	doch ich muß schließen, um euer excellenz mit meiner geschwätzigkeit nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lästig zu fallen. dürfte ich euer excellenz ersuchen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der familie seiffert unsere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />grüße zu sagen?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020426:1.11	p	möge der allmächtige ihr theures leben auch fortan in seinen gnädigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schutz nehmen; – möge er uns ihre theilnahme erhalten, dies ist der innigste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wunsch aller herzen, die unter dem einfachen dache zu <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">buchsfelde</placename> schlagen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nehmen sie diese versicherung als den einfachen ausdruck unser aller, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die uns bisher so tausendfach bewiesene liebe giebt uns die sicherste bürg<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />schaft dafür.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.1	p	Sie haben ohne Zweifel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bereits gehört<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">Königin</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich zu <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>ihren</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">ihrem</corr> </choice> Consul 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/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName> ernannt hat. Die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeit welche mir gegönnt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />worden ist, nach beinah <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neunjähriger Abwesenheit, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europa</placeName> zuzubringen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist sehr kurz, da ich Befehl <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erhalten habe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mich bereits <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5v\" />am 4<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Septr</abbr> <expan>September</expan> </choice> in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017409 https://www.geonames.org/3333196\">Southampton</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einzuschiffen um via <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/H0010256 https://www.geonames.org/1880251\">Singapore</placeName> nach <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abzureisen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.2	p	Ich kann aber <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europa</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht verlassen, ohne <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\"><choice> <abbr>Sr.</abbr> <expan>Seiner</expan> </choice> <lb />Majestät</persName> dem König und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eurer</expan> </choice> Excellenz meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Aufwartung zu machen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und Ihnen von Neuem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein langes Lebewohl <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu sagen. Ich gedenke <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ungefähr am 12<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> dieses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">Berlin</placeName> einzutreffen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und im <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020904 https://www.geonames.org/12522763\">Hôtel du Nord</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abzusteigen. Mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Aufenthalt kann sich nur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf 3 Tage belaufen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6r\" />und muß ich versuchen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> das Beste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aus meiner Zeit zu machen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ich werde bis zum 10<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> 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/H0011410 https://www.geonames.org/2879139\">Leipzig</placeName> bleiben, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im Fall <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz mich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />benachrichtigen wollen, ob <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich Ihnen meinen Besuch, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">Berlin</placeName> oder in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">Potsdam</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abstatten soll, und ob der <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/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">König</persName> mir erlaubt ihm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine unterthänige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Aufwartung zu machen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bitte ich Sie meinen Brief <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"fra\"><lb />aux soins</foreign> Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020830\">Julius <lb />Schomburgk</persName> in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011410 https://www.geonames.org/2879139\">Leipzig</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu adressiren.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.3	p	Ich freue mich herzlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf unser Wiedersehen – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich kann nie vergessen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />wie vielen Dank ich, wie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vielen Dank meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Brüder Ihnen schuldig sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.4	p	Genehmigen <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die Versicherung der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tiefsten Achtung und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dankbarkeit','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.1	p	sie haben ohne zweifel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bereits gehört<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">königin</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich zu <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>ihren</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">ihrem</corr> </choice> consul 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/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename> ernannt hat. die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeit welche mir gegönnt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />worden ist, nach beinah <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neunjähriger abwesenheit, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europa</placename> zuzubringen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist sehr kurz, da ich befehl <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erhalten habe<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mich bereits <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5v\" />am 4<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>septr</abbr> <expan>september</expan> </choice> in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017409 https://www.geonames.org/3333196\">southampton</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einzuschiffen um via <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/h0010256 https://www.geonames.org/1880251\">singapore</placename> nach <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abzureisen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.2	p	ich kann aber <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europa</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht verlassen, ohne <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\"><choice> <abbr>sr.</abbr> <expan>seiner</expan> </choice> <lb />majestät</persname> dem könig und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eurer</expan> </choice> excellenz meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aufwartung zu machen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und ihnen von neuem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein langes lebewohl <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu sagen. ich gedenke <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ungefähr am 12<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> dieses <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">berlin</placename> einzutreffen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und im <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020904 https://www.geonames.org/12522763\">hôtel du nord</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abzusteigen. mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aufenthalt kann sich nur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf 3 tage belaufen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6r\" />und muß ich versuchen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> das beste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aus meiner zeit zu machen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich werde bis zum 10<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> 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/h0011410 https://www.geonames.org/2879139\">leipzig</placename> bleiben, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im fall <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz mich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />benachrichtigen wollen, ob <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich ihnen meinen besuch, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">berlin</placename> oder in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">potsdam</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abstatten soll, und ob der <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/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">könig</persname> mir erlaubt ihm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine unterthänige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aufwartung zu machen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bitte ich sie meinen brief <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"fra\"><lb />aux soins</foreign> herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020830\">julius <lb />schomburgk</persname> in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011410 https://www.geonames.org/2879139\">leipzig</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu adressiren.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.3	p	ich freue mich herzlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf unser wiedersehen – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich kann nie vergessen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />wie vielen dank ich, wie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vielen dank meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brüder ihnen schuldig sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020427:1.4	p	genehmigen <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die versicherung der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tiefsten achtung und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dankbarkeit'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.1	p	Ich danke Ihnen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht innig für Ihre theuren <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeilen vom 7<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> August, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und habe ich den Herrn <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ab3aed0a-a288-4b70-baed-0aa288bb7009\" corresp=\"#eea9ec7f-4e95-43ba-a9ec-7f4e95b3ba38\" type=\"editorialNote\"><lb />Baron von Canitz</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"eea9ec7f-4e95-43ba-a9ec-7f4e95b3ba38\" corresp=\"#ab3aed0a-a288-4b70-baed-0aa288bb7009\" type=\"editorial\">Wohl <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020742 https://actaborussica.bbaw.de/P0004181\">Adolph von Canitz und Dallwitz</persName>.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bereits in der Einlage <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gebeten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Majestät</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7v\" />meinen Wunsch anzutragen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Höchstderselben meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Aufwartung zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />machen und habe ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Tage zwischen den 13<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />16<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> August zu Gebote <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gestellt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.2	p	Alles übrige lasse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich bis zum persönlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zusammentreffen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />da ich in jedem Fall, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sollte selbst der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">König</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"8r\" />mich nicht empfangen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, ich doch nach <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/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">Potsdam</placeName> kommen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werde<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> um Sie zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />umarmen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.3	p	Entschuldigen <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ergebenst die Beförderung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Einlage.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.1	p	ich danke ihnen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht innig für ihre theuren <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeilen vom 7<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> august, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und habe ich den herrn <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ab3aed0a-a288-4b70-baed-0aa288bb7009\" corresp=\"#eea9ec7f-4e95-43ba-a9ec-7f4e95b3ba38\" type=\"editorialnote\"><lb />baron von canitz</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"eea9ec7f-4e95-43ba-a9ec-7f4e95b3ba38\" corresp=\"#ab3aed0a-a288-4b70-baed-0aa288bb7009\" type=\"editorial\">wohl <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020742 https://actaborussica.bbaw.de/p0004181\">adolph von canitz und dallwitz</persname>.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bereits in der einlage <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gebeten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">majestät</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7v\" />meinen wunsch anzutragen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />höchstderselben meine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aufwartung zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />machen und habe ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tage zwischen den 13<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />16<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> august zu gebote <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gestellt.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.2	p	alles übrige lasse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich bis zum persönlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zusammentreffen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />da ich in jedem fall, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sollte selbst der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">könig</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"8r\" />mich nicht empfangen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, ich doch nach <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/h0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">potsdam</placename> kommen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werde<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> um sie zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />umarmen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020428:1.3	p	entschuldigen <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ergebenst die beförderung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der einlage.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.1	p	Ich habe das Vergnügen Ihnen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hiermit die gewünschte Übersetzung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu senden. Eure Excellenz können <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nun die Form hinsichtlich des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />weißen Randes des Briefes wie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in der Einlage beibehalten, oder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die Ihnen am besten zusagende <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anwenden. Des offiziellen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Styles gemäß, kommt die Adresse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unten auf die erste Seite, jedoch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dies ist von keiner Wichtigkeit, da <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"9v\" />doch Ihr Brief nicht rein offiziel ist.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.2	p	Die <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015551\">Herren Schlagintweit</persName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wie ich bereits mündlich bemerkte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wohnen in Jermyn Street Nº 92, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine mir wohlbekannte Straße.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.3	p	Eure Excellenz noch tausend<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mal für Dero gütige Aufnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dankend, und für das gütige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Interesse welche Sie mir stet<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">ig</del> <add place=\"across\">s</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bezeigt, Ihnen ewig verbunden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleibend, wage ich es noch eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bitte zur geneigten Berücksichtigung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vorzulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.4	p	Es ist mein großer Wunsch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in der französischen Ehrenlegion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zum Offizier zu steigen.Ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"10r\" />sprach mit Professor <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002750 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117339385\">Valencienne<supplied cert=\"high\">s</supplied></persName> 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/H0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">Paris</placeName> darüber, der diesen Wunsch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />billigte, und um ihn zu erreichen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mir anempfahl, mich an Eure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Excellenz zu wenden, da einige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Worte von Ihnen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> um den Herrn <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/H0011694 https://d-nb.info/gnd/116520213\">Grafen von Hatzfeld</persName> dafür zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gewinnen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> seine Beifhülfe zu erhalten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dies gewiß hervorbringen würde.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.5	p	Ich stütze meinen Wunsch nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf politische Verhältnisse (<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"2\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">ob</add> </subst>gleich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />während meines Aufenthalts 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/H0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">Santo Domingo</placeName> ich mit meinen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />französischen Collegen in der ange<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wandten Politik stets Hand in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Hand ging,) sondern einzig und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />allein, auf das, was ich seit 1847 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />für die Wissenschaften gethan <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.6	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"10v\" />Sollte mein Wunsch gewährt werden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so könnte mir die Nachricht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />darüber <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">(sowie auch das Ordenskreuz)</add> durch <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013079 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117427748\">Lord Clarendon</persName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den Minister der Auswärtigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Angelegenheiten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mitgetheilt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden, der natürlich davon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unterrichtet werden muß.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.7	p	Eure Excellenz finden einliegend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb2ef0c6-907c-4213-aef0-c6907ca21303\" corresp=\"#bf061bb8-8054-4d49-861b-b88054cd49e8\" type=\"editorialNote\">Memorandum</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bf061bb8-8054-4d49-861b-b88054cd49e8\" corresp=\"#fb2ef0c6-907c-4213-aef0-c6907ca21303\" type=\"editorial\">Siehe S<ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020411\">chomburgks Memorandum über wissenschaftliche Arbeiten während seiner Zeit als britischer Konsul in der Dominikanischen Republik</ref>.</note><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> auf welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gründe ich meinen Wunsch stütze.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.8	p	Indem ich Eure Excellenz wiederholt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine innigsten Wünsche für Ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gesundheit und das uns so theure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Leben darbringe, kann ich ich mich nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Hoffnung entreißen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> Sie bei meiner <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Rückkunft von <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName> von Neuem zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />umarmen und Ihnen wörtlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu sagen wie sehr ich bin\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.9	p	(4 Golden Square <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">London</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bis zum 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> September)','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.1	p	ich habe das vergnügen ihnen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hiermit die gewünschte Übersetzung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu senden. eure excellenz können <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nun die form hinsichtlich des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />weißen randes des briefes wie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in der einlage beibehalten, oder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die ihnen am besten zusagende <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anwenden. des offiziellen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />styles gemäß, kommt die adresse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unten auf die erste seite, jedoch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dies ist von keiner wichtigkeit, da <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"9v\" />doch ihr brief nicht rein offiziel ist.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.2	p	die <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015551\">herren schlagintweit</persname>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wie ich bereits mündlich bemerkte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wohnen in jermyn street nº 92, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine mir wohlbekannte straße.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.3	p	eure excellenz noch tausend<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mal für dero gütige aufnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dankend, und für das gütige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />interesse welche sie mir stet<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">ig</del> <add place=\"across\">s</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bezeigt, ihnen ewig verbunden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bleibend, wage ich es noch eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bitte zur geneigten berücksichtigung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vorzulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.4	p	es ist mein großer wunsch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in der französischen ehrenlegion <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zum offizier zu steigen.ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"10r\" />sprach mit professor <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002750 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117339385\">valencienne<supplied cert=\"high\">s</supplied></persname> 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/h0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">paris</placename> darüber, der diesen wunsch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />billigte, und um ihn zu erreichen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mir anempfahl, mich an eure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />excellenz zu wenden, da einige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />worte von ihnen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> um den herrn <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/h0011694 https://d-nb.info/gnd/116520213\">grafen von hatzfeld</persname> dafür zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gewinnen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> seine beifhülfe zu erhalten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dies gewiß hervorbringen würde.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.5	p	ich stütze meinen wunsch nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf politische verhältnisse (<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"2\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">ob</add> </subst>gleich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />während meines aufenthalts 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/h0010099 https://www.geonames.org/3508796\">santo domingo</placename> ich mit meinen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />französischen collegen in der ange<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />wandten politik stets hand in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hand ging,) sondern einzig und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />allein, auf das, was ich seit 1847 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />für die wissenschaften gethan <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.6	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"10v\" />sollte mein wunsch gewährt werden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so könnte mir die nachricht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />darüber <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">(sowie auch das ordenskreuz)</add> durch <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013079 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117427748\">lord clarendon</persname><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den minister der auswärtigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />angelegenheiten<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mitgetheilt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden, der natürlich davon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unterrichtet werden muß.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.7	p	eure excellenz finden einliegend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb2ef0c6-907c-4213-aef0-c6907ca21303\" corresp=\"#bf061bb8-8054-4d49-861b-b88054cd49e8\" type=\"editorialnote\">memorandum</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"bf061bb8-8054-4d49-861b-b88054cd49e8\" corresp=\"#fb2ef0c6-907c-4213-aef0-c6907ca21303\" type=\"editorial\">siehe s<ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020411\">chomburgks memorandum über wissenschaftliche arbeiten während seiner zeit als britischer konsul in der dominikanischen republik</ref>.</note><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> auf welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gründe ich meinen wunsch stütze.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.8	p	indem ich eure excellenz wiederholt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine innigsten wünsche für ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gesundheit und das uns so theure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />leben darbringe, kann ich ich mich nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der hoffnung entreißen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> sie bei meiner <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rückkunft von <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename> von neuem zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />umarmen und ihnen wörtlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu sagen wie sehr ich bin\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020429:1.9	p	(4 golden square <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">london</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bis zum 3<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">ten</hi> september)'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.1	p	In der Hoffnung<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sich mir in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010850 https://www.geonames.org/2411585\">Gibraltar</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine Gelegenheit darbieten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> Briefe absenden zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, nehme ich mir die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Freiheit<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die Einlage an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seifert</persName> beizulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.2	p	Er bat mich nähmlich<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrlichen Worte welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"13v\" />Excellenz unter das neue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gemählde Ihres Studierzimmers <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geschrieben haben, in’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Englische zu übersetzen, was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich auch gethan habe; es muß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aber Ihrer Überlegung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und Prüfung anheim <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gestellt bleiben, ob Sie es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dem Sinne gemäß für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />treu übersetzt halten, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es adoptiren wollen<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ee3181fe-5546-4cc2-b181-fe55469cc2f4\" corresp=\"#c2ffc6c8-7049-45b8-bfc6-c87049d5b80e\" type=\"editorialNote\">.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c2ffc6c8-7049-45b8-bfc6-c87049d5b80e\" corresp=\"#ee3181fe-5546-4cc2-b181-fe55469cc2f4\" type=\"editorial\">Humboldt hatte seinem Diener <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Johann Seifert</persName> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011896 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118704753\">Eduard Hildebrandts</persName> Aquarell „Alexander von Humboldt in seiner Bibliothek“ geschenkt. <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seifert</persName> vertrieb Farbdrucke des Werkes sowie eine Broschüre, die die unter das Bild gesetzte Widmungsworte Humboldts sowie eine Beschreibung des Gemäldes, beides auch in französischer und englischer Übersetzung (jeweils datiert auf November 1857), enthält. Während <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013311 http://d-nb.info/gnd/103090800\">Charles Galusky</persName> als Übersetzer des französischen Textes genannt ist, ist der Urheber der englischen Fassung nicht angegeben (vgl. <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/C8BL2VWL\">Humboldt 1857</bibl>).</note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.3	p	Die gütige Aufnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche ich von Ihnen und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von unserm gnädigen <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/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">König</persName> und <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002149 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118688634\">Königin</persName> erhielt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schwebt mir in höchst dankbarer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"14r\" />Erinnerung <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">vor,</add> und muntert <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich zu neuen Anstrengungen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf. Durch die gütige Ver<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mittelung meines Freundes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006255 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117146390\"><choice> <abbr>Cap<hi rendition=\"#sup\">t</hi>.</abbr> <expan>Captain</expan> </choice> Washington</persName>, besitze <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich sehr schöne Instrumente, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sowohl für geodäsische Auf<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nahmen als wie für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Meteorologie. Unter anderem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />3 Chronometer für Bestimmung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Meridian Differenzen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und der absoluten Zeit. Es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird natürlich noch einige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeit vergehen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bevor ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich gehörig in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />orientiren kann, aber ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe mir vorgenommen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sowie ich meinen Weg <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"14v\" />frei vor mir sehen kann, ins <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Land der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020570 https://www.geonames.org/1655842\">Laos</placeName> vorzudringen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />In jedem Fall werde ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eurer</expan> </choice> Excellenz recht bald schreiben. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Unterdessen bitte ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gelegenheit wahrzunehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a9c25d1c-cbbb-4846-825d-1ccbbba846f2\" corresp=\"#ce4f0ca6-5c3a-4196-8f0c-a65c3a219630\" type=\"editorialNote\"><choice> <abbr>Königl.</abbr> <expan>Königlichen</expan> </choice> Majestäten</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ce4f0ca6-5c3a-4196-8f0c-a65c3a219630\" corresp=\"#a9c25d1c-cbbb-4846-825d-1ccbbba846f2\" type=\"editorial\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen</persName> und seine Gemahlin <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002149 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118688634\">Elisabeth Ludovika</persName>.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meinen unterthänigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Respect darzubringen, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stets zu glauben, daß ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unveränderlich bleibe,\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.4	p	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Euer</expan> </choice> Excellenz,','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.1	p	in der hoffnung<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sich mir in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010850 https://www.geonames.org/2411585\">gibraltar</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eine gelegenheit darbieten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> briefe absenden zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, nehme ich mir die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />freiheit<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die einlage an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seifert</persname> beizulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.2	p	er bat mich nähmlich<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrlichen worte welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"13v\" />excellenz unter das neue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gemählde ihres studierzimmers <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geschrieben haben, in’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />englische zu übersetzen, was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich auch gethan habe; es muß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aber ihrer Überlegung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und prüfung anheim <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gestellt bleiben, ob sie es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dem sinne gemäß für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />treu übersetzt halten, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es adoptiren wollen<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ee3181fe-5546-4cc2-b181-fe55469cc2f4\" corresp=\"#c2ffc6c8-7049-45b8-bfc6-c87049d5b80e\" type=\"editorialnote\">.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c2ffc6c8-7049-45b8-bfc6-c87049d5b80e\" corresp=\"#ee3181fe-5546-4cc2-b181-fe55469cc2f4\" type=\"editorial\">humboldt hatte seinem diener <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">johann seifert</persname> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011896 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118704753\">eduard hildebrandts</persname> aquarell „alexander von humboldt in seiner bibliothek“ geschenkt. <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seifert</persname> vertrieb farbdrucke des werkes sowie eine broschüre, die die unter das bild gesetzte widmungsworte humboldts sowie eine beschreibung des gemäldes, beides auch in französischer und englischer Übersetzung (jeweils datiert auf november 1857), enthält. während <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013311 http://d-nb.info/gnd/103090800\">charles galusky</persname> als Übersetzer des französischen textes genannt ist, ist der urheber der englischen fassung nicht angegeben (vgl. <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/c8bl2vwl\">humboldt 1857</bibl>).</note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.3	p	die gütige aufnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche ich von ihnen und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von unserm gnädigen <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/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">könig</persname> und <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002149 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118688634\">königin</persname> erhielt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />schwebt mir in höchst dankbarer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"14r\" />erinnerung <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">vor,</add> und muntert <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich zu neuen anstrengungen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf. durch die gütige ver<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />mittelung meines freundes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006255 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117146390\"><choice> <abbr>cap<hi rendition=\"#sup\">t</hi>.</abbr> <expan>captain</expan> </choice> washington</persname>, besitze <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich sehr schöne instrumente, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sowohl für geodäsische auf<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nahmen als wie für <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meteorologie. unter anderem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />3 chronometer für bestimmung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der meridian differenzen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und der absoluten zeit. es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wird natürlich noch einige <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeit vergehen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bevor ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich gehörig in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />orientiren kann, aber ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe mir vorgenommen, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sowie ich meinen weg <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"14v\" />frei vor mir sehen kann, ins <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />land der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020570 https://www.geonames.org/1655842\">laos</placename> vorzudringen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in jedem fall werde ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eurer</expan> </choice> excellenz recht bald schreiben. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unterdessen bitte ich die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gelegenheit wahrzunehmen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a9c25d1c-cbbb-4846-825d-1ccbbba846f2\" corresp=\"#ce4f0ca6-5c3a-4196-8f0c-a65c3a219630\" type=\"editorialnote\"><choice> <abbr>königl.</abbr> <expan>königlichen</expan> </choice> majestäten</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ce4f0ca6-5c3a-4196-8f0c-a65c3a219630\" corresp=\"#a9c25d1c-cbbb-4846-825d-1ccbbba846f2\" type=\"editorial\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">friedrich wilhelm iv. von preußen</persname> und seine gemahlin <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002149 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118688634\">elisabeth ludovika</persname>.</note> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meinen unterthänigsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />respect darzubringen, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stets zu glauben, daß ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unveränderlich bleibe,\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020430:1.4	p	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>euer</expan> </choice> excellenz,'),