Note 73 — Chapter III · GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN PROVINCES.

Usually known as the Ta-pa ling; but Baron von Richthofen found that the natives of that region “call those mountains the Kiu-tiao shan, that is the ‘nine mountain ridges,’ designating therewith the fact that the range is made up of a number of parallel ridges. This name should be retained in preference to the other.” Letter on the Provinces of Chihlí, Shansí, Shensí, etc. Shanghai, 1872. See also his China, Band II. S. 563-576; Alex. Wylie, Notes of a Journey from Chingtoo to Hankow, Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc. Vol. XIV., p. 168.