The New York herald., 1868-12-16
TRlBeT IN HIGH ASIA.

Th;r Lecture by Professor Robert Schlng.
In, weit-The Country and the People Of
ybi bef-Tbeir Customs aud lIauners-Highly
Inte resting Disclosures.
Prof sssE hopert Won ocniasht"eis ueiNereo MS
tbird scture the interior of High Asia last even,
inr az Neinway Hall before numerous audience
Hts iue ana easy style OF speaking, MS beauty OF
lanruap, and aptness Of illustration, have already
made hin l popular that each successive lecture
- a,tenae by largely increased numbers coming
from the most intelligent and educated portion OF
our Germs VI residents havng IN ms last lecture
introduced his hearers into the rocky passes
of the / Iimalaya range from the south,
mo Profess ,or began yesterday by describing
inc descent northward being gently slopng,
rho very oppt 'se in form to the southern part with
a. onadan st eep, wail-like elevation. The descent
leads one into Thbet. and he mnutely described the
orogrannical c, Dpdguratlon OF this most interesting
valley OF whc he had already given general out
na IN II the En- yLsh language before the American
evening" the 9TH inst, published IN the HERALD OF
Tuaiasy tho sth In addition TO what he then said
and cong more ufo detail, he stated that In Eastern
Tilhet there wel sixteen lakes. some larger and
some smaller all very high attitudes the highest
rTso Cyacari bel ~ 15,693, and the lowest (Tso
NoonaarD oiO ,et above the level OF the seattle
word tsss meanin Q lake. No European had pene-
sted into Ih regE y, soe i G ISL wru a ws an
ern Thibet ad be, 70 more explored rom time
70 Time BY Gunp sns saed snns Eastern
Thbet and a par. of western is under the
sovereignty OF ,China, shu special pains are taken
fo eyclIide ali foreign efs. The southern portion
OF THIS territory eings near 70 the British border
proyiuces OF n. lmon and Gnarvai, tue whole
boundary line is O. vered almost Win Chinese senti-
nels TO Keep all 70 regne = away ana to report the
annroach ~ anv n lt ont TO the chief 0ical
Chinese Governor tf Ga.'tok, on tue indus. The
system OF exclusion is so lsluiy nalhtslhed tnat
native was put 10 de ith IN 1850 ior <ceonpanylne
an Englishrnan dsgui 'ed as = fakir or Hlndoo pill
grim Hence travel i n lnls county ~ eAucnev
dificut and to the Pl oiessW an1 bls brothers u
was rendered more 80, Tor on arriving al Milum
II 9G5 feet above the sea they were informed that be-
tween the Chinese and Ma psese war nag ofoken OUT
Shang Bahaaar the Nzer OF Nalai harinR sud1eny
attacked the Chinese and lhiDetans north VI the
UiInalaya. The lecturer ii en- gave very instruc.
tive picture OF the climate Wneie, IL an Autnde
ms nigh almost as the iceclad peahs oi Mons bianc
TIC three explorers ,asTAed Tor a while
al Mium and asceriane0N ihsi We peo
pie there commented upon N'uuu SiltSIseo we
smei talk az peopie Of cities and Villages IN Europe
arl In the habit Of doing The adv ens o. the rainy
season the black clouds and heavy l. w y, wafer any
lts cessation in early July were then uesetlueu aho
Also how M last they started out, atten eu oy hIee
caravan Of Sutas, with their sheep, wh T., aie miaoe
70 carry from eight TO ten pounds OF graz 80 p,s,
ueight IraSersng the Jta Dhura pass srr,'orxi :,
OF lI,6L feet. they came into neutral u iIiV.ty,
since both China aud the British claimed IT, W my
by the convention OF $780, agreed TO recon- 1 s asI
fee bigh but dilcuttof passage Dlt interesting w w
the naturalist Wine The highest cod water spri.'s
IN the himaiays Mas at 1870 feet hei.'
such were found at the height Of 1860 feet;
the highest In the AIDES measured by Hum
bodt, l5,526 feet aud In the Alps, 0,440.
They were also enabled to determine the
limits OF vegetation. Thus single rocks were met
win looming up ike dark Islands among the mass
OF surrounding Ice, and while TO the common ete
they looked bare and bald the e& &perienced naturalist
can detect vegetation in the cefts OF the stone. In
the b-Ganim pass they found IN ihis manner plants
OF the genus saxifraga al the immense altitude Of
lt,so0 ieet; N The HiIpaays al 1899. Coonei