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)

I.

GENERAL HYPSOMETRICAL

of

INDIA AND HIGH ASIA.

TABLEAU

A. The Different Varieties of Habitation: 1. Towns, villages, and pasture grounds. 2. Extreme heights
visited by man, and effect of height. — B. Geographical Configurations: 1. Plateaux and lakes. 2. Passes.
3. Peaks. — C. Physical Phenomena: 1. Snow-fall, snow-line, and glaciers. 2. Limits of vegetation and animal
life.

The materials included in this volume may be considered ample enough to
furnish a rough outline of the physical features of these regions in connection with
their hypsometry. To render this picture complete, we found it necessary to add
mean values for the snow-line, and for some of the limits of vegetation and animal
life. We did so, however, with hesitation, knowing that we must postpone the full
detail upon which the values are based to the subsequent volumes having special
reference to such researches.

The various objects measured have been divided into three principal groups:

A. The Diffebent Yaeieties of Habitation:

1. Towns, villages, and pasture grounds.

2. Extreme heights visited by man, and effect of height.

B. Geogeaphical Configurations :

1. Plateaux and lakes. 2. Passes. 3. Peaks.

C. Physical Phenomena:

1. Snow-fall, snow-line, and glaciers. 2. Limits of vegetation and animal life.

Within these primary groups, the materials are also subdivided for the different
geographical regions, as: India, the Himalaya, Western Tibet, and parts of the
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