490 HIMMALEH MOUNTAINS. 
appears to be rather a continuation of the Tsung- 
ling and of the whole system of Kwan-lun to the 
west, than a prolongation of the Himmalehs, as is 
eommonly supposed. From the Tsung-ling the 
“Kwan-lun, or Koulkoun range, runs from west to _ 
east towards the sources of the Hoang-ho or Yellow 
River, and penetrates with its snowy summits into 
Chen-si, a province of China. Nearly in the meri- 
dian of these springs rises the great mass of moun- 
tains on the Lake Khoukhou-noor, resting to the 
north upon the snowy chain of the Nanshan or 
Ki-leen-shan, which also runs from west to east. — 
Between Nanshan and Teen-shan, the heights of 
Tangout limit the margin of the upper desert of 
Gobi or Cha-mo, which is prolonged from south- 
west to north-east. The latitude of the central part © 
of the Kwan-lun range is 35° 30’. 
4. Himmaleh System—This system separates — 
the valleys of Cashmere and Nepaul from Bootan 
and Thibet. ‘To the west it rises in the mountain 
Javaher to an elevation of 25,746 feet, and to the ~ 
east in Dhwalagiri to 28,074 feet above the level 
of the sea. Its general direction is from north-west 
to south-east, and thus it is not at all parallel to the 
Kwan-lun range, to which it approaches so near in 
the meridian of Attok and Jellalabad that they 
seem to form the same mass of mountains. Follow- 
ing the Himmaleh range eastward, we find it bor- 
dering Assam on the north, containing the sources of 
the Brahmapoutra, passing through the northern 
part of Ava, and penetrating into Yun-nan, a pro- 
vince of China, to the west of Young-tchang. It 
there exhibits pointed and snow-clad summits. It 
bends abruptly to the north-east, on the confines of 
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