N ames.
Extent.
CHIN ESE EM PI R W
PART m, %
T I B E T .
Names.—Extent.—Boundaries and Provinces.—Progrefftve Geography.—Religion.—
Government.— Population.— Maimers.— Language - and Literature.— Cities’, and
Towns. — Manufacturesand Commerce.— Climate and Sail.—Rivers.— Moun -
tains.—Zoology..—Mineralogy.—Natural Curiofities.
THE account of this interefting -country muft unfortunately be
limited in the /topics, as the materials are far from being ample.
"The recent narrative of Capt. TumerVjourney fhall be feledted $s the
moft authentic; but it only embraces a fmall part, and for 'thé general
geography recourfe muft he had to more antiquated authorities.* 'Tibet,
with its numerous independencies, may in fa£t (till be arranged among N
the undijeovered countries in the centre of Afia.
The name of Tibet^ which is probably Hindoo, or Perfian, is in the
country itfelf, and in Bengal pronounced Tibfret, or Tibt. But the
native appellation is' JP«ë, or Ptie Koacbim^ faid to be derived from'Paë,
fignifying northern, and Kmchiin, fnow y that is the fnowy region of
the north.*
.According to the moft 'recent maps Tibet extends from about the
75th to the 101ft degree of longitude, whichin the latitude of 30? may
* For an account .of Nipal fee H indoftanand the authors there mentioned .may be con-
fulted for a further account of Tibet.
‘ Turner, p. v. and 305.- -
be
ErtEST.
he about jtia 50 i-gSOgraphipaf mile%:> The breadth may he regarded as
extendingSfrorq the^th aboyt,4»o
M i 111
rnoVilemmf from tbe
Hindoos; H B M B Eb b E s m
8M B 3 B S they,
p r o a o ^ ’ Tataric^-th.6,!agh 4 fu¥?$d «\*ft,
MongUfe»-or Tatars.,proper.. ^ ^ Ti . , c , a- 1b
1 AsVLr. Eprfte^in his travels 0.bfe# & tKat the :material for Ae fhaw:Is
of Gaihmir i ™ W f S g f ° f a BHi— BB north HRBf
mm MBWHH J M B i iM H i ffinorth offH country^, and WiMiMBPP
i|tfnn to.infer?t%t S § « arp wholly defe^ive m B B B B iB B B
bauuLy offe'enumry, which ought V be R G | g | l I S | 1 | | | I
of the rivert of Tuttle Buchariat between, the H aftd M degfee of
N latitude;. I Tieffenthaler4 alfo I mentions' tha|
Calhgar M M M S M S i bat> this not bdn^ermttted,
the paffage 1 M B M lM i MgPfflSB 1 I h f days journey from ■ H limit Wm M M further on I
sfakart: and'after .travelling thence'for
forefts, appears the frontier of Little | | g | M i fi? een M B
caravan reaches Calbgar, formerly the refidehce of the pmice; but ir is.
now at Yarkand,, ten, days further to. the north.$ , y \ A
' TKefe el’dar teftimonids of two .iritehigetit' travellers f|em to evince
that the northern W K f of Tibet'may'bedhfely bedded two degrees
farther than if appears inourbeft map^s, in which there is no-portion of-
Boundaries •
and BèoYiïfc*
cesV*\, I
* Probably at leaft to 370, M | | o u l d add « , G mde for Mu Tag> , according to'
the Ruffians, the northern boundary of Tibet : and they place that range
* Vol ii P 18. a. Bernoulli, Tome 1. p. 77- , , . <P,8 +'
8 +.jjbisla ft in te llig en t
fTieffenthaler cannot be. followed. He add» that from Caihgar to Cathay,, or the N W. of
- r S r o c c u p y two months, a fpace which agrees with the; ppfitions. A Little
■ Tffiet’ ia W the N. of Caffimir, and is bounded on the E. by Great Tibet, . (Berber) « is clean ,
• that the latter muft extend further N. than our map» bear.
Great