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THE NUMERICAL TABLES OF HIGH ASIA.
Observations and literature.—The groups.—The daily range.—The seasons.—Insolation.—Sanitaria.—The views.
The materials for determining the climate of the mountainous regions to the north
of India contain already, for various stations of the Himalaya, annual periods of some
duration. For Tibet few data so detailed could be collected, and the number of
stations is altogether small; from analogy, however, observations of shorter duration,
such as some travellers' journals offer, proved useful for general considerations.
For the plateaux leading on to the Kuenluen, and for its slopes down into Tur-
kistan, I have remained limited to what our passage allowed us to observe when
I crossed, accompanied then by my brother Robert, in 1856, and to the materials
I found in Adolphe's posthumous papers, from his route up to Kashgar in 1857.
As far as I know, the chain of the Kuenluen has not as yet been crossed by any
other European till now (1865),1 nor have observations of any kind been communicated
from these regions.
Tashkend, according to the late news from Central Asia, has been taken by the
Russians;2 but from there, if ever any forward movement should be attempted later,
the condition of the country as well as the distribution of the population would give
it a southerly direction, passing considerably to the west of the Kuenluen.
For the Himalaya and Tibet the work done by previous observers was carefully com-
pared in sketching the outlines of climate. The books in which their notices are contained
1 Compare the anniversary address of Sir Roderick Murchison to the Roy. Geographical Society, June 1865.
2 For distances see Route-book, Vol. III., Part I. A telegramm, from Gth of October 18G5, via Constantinople,
reports that the Emir of Bokhara had overtaken and cut down the Russian force left there.
rv. • 59
Observations and literature.—The groups.—The daily range.—The seasons.—Insolation.—Sanitaria.—The views.
The materials for determining the climate of the mountainous regions to the north
of India contain already, for various stations of the Himalaya, annual periods of some
duration. For Tibet few data so detailed could be collected, and the number of
stations is altogether small; from analogy, however, observations of shorter duration,
such as some travellers' journals offer, proved useful for general considerations.
For the plateaux leading on to the Kuenluen, and for its slopes down into Tur-
kistan, I have remained limited to what our passage allowed us to observe when
I crossed, accompanied then by my brother Robert, in 1856, and to the materials
I found in Adolphe's posthumous papers, from his route up to Kashgar in 1857.
As far as I know, the chain of the Kuenluen has not as yet been crossed by any
other European till now (1865),1 nor have observations of any kind been communicated
from these regions.
Tashkend, according to the late news from Central Asia, has been taken by the
Russians;2 but from there, if ever any forward movement should be attempted later,
the condition of the country as well as the distribution of the population would give
it a southerly direction, passing considerably to the west of the Kuenluen.
For the Himalaya and Tibet the work done by previous observers was carefully com-
pared in sketching the outlines of climate. The books in which their notices are contained
1 Compare the anniversary address of Sir Roderick Murchison to the Roy. Geographical Society, June 1865.
2 For distances see Route-book, Vol. III., Part I. A telegramm, from Gth of October 18G5, via Constantinople,
reports that the Emir of Bokhara had overtaken and cut down the Russian force left there.
rv. • 59