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heights determined in tibet.
difficulties in the way of more accurate information in these parts are at once political
and natural. For, not only is the country jealously guarded against the intrusion of
strangers, thus necessitating a recourse to the strictest disguise on the part of the
traveller, but from the general great elevation of the land, the air is so rarefied and
bleak, as to place both the bodily and mental powers of the observer under a con-
siderable disadvantage.
In our subsequent discussions on the extreme limits of height in reference to
habitations, snow-lines, vegetations, &c, it will be found that the great mass of our
data are derived from these three areas alone. (See part Y.)
For our heights in Turkistan we have no data whatever for comparison. How-
ever, the circumstances under which they were obtained may be considered particularly
favourable, as we were fortunate enough, not only to make them at the fittest season
of the year, but also to calculate them from corresponding stations exceedingly well
situated for the purpose: the importance of hypsometrical materials for these regions
in particular, having induced us to make such arrangements in the disposition of our
establishment as were suitable to this end.
At the conclusion of this chapter we have ventured to give approximate values
for the heights of Elchi, Yarkand, and Kashgar, though we may now indulge in the
hope that more definite results will soon be arrived at by the well known scientific
members of the mission to Central Asia, which is to start under the direction of
Captain Smyth in the early part of the ensuing year.
AREA IX.
CENTRAL CHAIN OF WESTERN TIBET.
No. 1. Gtjrla, or Mandhata Peak, 30° 27'; 81° 15', in Gnari Khorsum, S. of the
Mansarauer lake............................... 25,200 ft. Strach.
Indistinctly visible in the Gunshankar panorama as the easternmost peak. Schl., Ad.
No. 2. Tise Peak, 31° 4'; 81° IP, in Gnari Khorsum, N. of the Mansarauer lake.
Loc. Top of the peak........................ 22,000 ft. Strach.
A steep, well defined peak in the Gunshankar panorama. Schl., Ad.
heights determined in tibet.
difficulties in the way of more accurate information in these parts are at once political
and natural. For, not only is the country jealously guarded against the intrusion of
strangers, thus necessitating a recourse to the strictest disguise on the part of the
traveller, but from the general great elevation of the land, the air is so rarefied and
bleak, as to place both the bodily and mental powers of the observer under a con-
siderable disadvantage.
In our subsequent discussions on the extreme limits of height in reference to
habitations, snow-lines, vegetations, &c, it will be found that the great mass of our
data are derived from these three areas alone. (See part Y.)
For our heights in Turkistan we have no data whatever for comparison. How-
ever, the circumstances under which they were obtained may be considered particularly
favourable, as we were fortunate enough, not only to make them at the fittest season
of the year, but also to calculate them from corresponding stations exceedingly well
situated for the purpose: the importance of hypsometrical materials for these regions
in particular, having induced us to make such arrangements in the disposition of our
establishment as were suitable to this end.
At the conclusion of this chapter we have ventured to give approximate values
for the heights of Elchi, Yarkand, and Kashgar, though we may now indulge in the
hope that more definite results will soon be arrived at by the well known scientific
members of the mission to Central Asia, which is to start under the direction of
Captain Smyth in the early part of the ensuing year.
AREA IX.
CENTRAL CHAIN OF WESTERN TIBET.
No. 1. Gtjrla, or Mandhata Peak, 30° 27'; 81° 15', in Gnari Khorsum, S. of the
Mansarauer lake............................... 25,200 ft. Strach.
Indistinctly visible in the Gunshankar panorama as the easternmost peak. Schl., Ad.
No. 2. Tise Peak, 31° 4'; 81° IP, in Gnari Khorsum, N. of the Mansarauer lake.
Loc. Top of the peak........................ 22,000 ft. Strach.
A steep, well defined peak in the Gunshankar panorama. Schl., Ad.