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HREF ACE.
With reference to the transcription adopted, a detailed explanation
was presented in Vol. I., pp. 66—70; the table of the alphabet used is
also given at the beginning of this volume. For the transcription of
the Tibetan names, we are greatly indebted to our brother Emil, who
for some time past has been occupied with the preparation of a work,
in which he will separately publish a selection from our Tibetan
materials.
We begin this Volume, in Part I., with the theoretical considerations
on the method of observation and calculation; two diagrams are also
added, showing the variation of the barometrical heights in the daily
and yearly period. As practical results of this part, we may mention
the remarks on hypsometrical instruments in general, and especially
our careful comparisons of barometers and of boiling-point thermo-
meters, which were constructed with the greatest accuracy, and on
which each degree of the Centigrade scale was divided into 50 parts.
We had occasion to make such observations at a camp on the
Ibi Gamin, still at a height of 19,323 feet. The barometrical and
trigonometrical tables (pp. 71—90) may, we hope, be found acceptable,
especially for scientific gentlemen in India.
The heights are contained in Parts It., III., and IV. It was a matter
of serious consideration, how to arrange so large a number of heights.
In accordance with the system detailed p. 93, the extensive districts
of India, the Himalaya, and Tibet, with the Karakorum and Kuenluen,
have been kept separate, and each of these groups was subdivided into
areas, the limits of which are laid clown on a map included in the
present volume. In this map the arrangement and succession of the
heights is indicated by lines drawn across the several areas. To facili-
tate, however, the forming of any other combination which might be
HREF ACE.
With reference to the transcription adopted, a detailed explanation
was presented in Vol. I., pp. 66—70; the table of the alphabet used is
also given at the beginning of this volume. For the transcription of
the Tibetan names, we are greatly indebted to our brother Emil, who
for some time past has been occupied with the preparation of a work,
in which he will separately publish a selection from our Tibetan
materials.
We begin this Volume, in Part I., with the theoretical considerations
on the method of observation and calculation; two diagrams are also
added, showing the variation of the barometrical heights in the daily
and yearly period. As practical results of this part, we may mention
the remarks on hypsometrical instruments in general, and especially
our careful comparisons of barometers and of boiling-point thermo-
meters, which were constructed with the greatest accuracy, and on
which each degree of the Centigrade scale was divided into 50 parts.
We had occasion to make such observations at a camp on the
Ibi Gamin, still at a height of 19,323 feet. The barometrical and
trigonometrical tables (pp. 71—90) may, we hope, be found acceptable,
especially for scientific gentlemen in India.
The heights are contained in Parts It., III., and IV. It was a matter
of serious consideration, how to arrange so large a number of heights.
In accordance with the system detailed p. 93, the extensive districts
of India, the Himalaya, and Tibet, with the Karakorum and Kuenluen,
have been kept separate, and each of these groups was subdivided into
areas, the limits of which are laid clown on a map included in the
present volume. In this map the arrangement and succession of the
heights is indicated by lines drawn across the several areas. To facili-
tate, however, the forming of any other combination which might be