Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 2): General hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Tibet, with sections across the chains of the Karakorúm and Kuenlúen: comprising, in addition to messrs. de Schlagintweit's determinations, the data collected from books, maps, and private communications (Leipzig, 1862)

TO

HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

MAXIMILIAN II.,

KING OF BAVARIA.

SlKE,

Your Majesty, with that gracious sympathy ever so readily evinced on behalf of
geographical science, has again been pleased to distinguish us with Royal favour by
accepting the dedication of the present work, in which it has been our endeavour to
contribute to the knowledge of physical geography by collecting the measurements of
heights hitherto made in India and High Asia, and combining with the results of
former observers the determinations made by ourselves during three years travel in
those reaions.

The mountain systems of the Himalaya, Karakorum, and Kuenluen, include the
highest elevations of our globe; yet their geological character, so different from the
volcanic nature of the Andes, and their climate so rapidly approaching with increased
elevation that of the temperate, and even frigid zone, presented to us, though on a
larger scale, surprising analogies with Alpine forms, and suggested, notwithstanding
the distance from home, many a cheerful remembrance of the highland territories of
your Majesty's dominions, our own native country.

With entire loyalty and profound respect we are

Your Majesty's

most faithful and obedient Subjects

Jagersbueg, Sept, 1861.

THE AUTHORS.