However, no positive conclusion can
be derived from these researches, chiefly in consequence of the absence of
a tolerably correct map of Northern Mongolia."
Abel Remusat (Mem. sur Geog. Asie Centrale, p. 20) made a confusion
between Karabalgasun and Karakorum which has misled most writers after
him.
Sir Henry Yule says: "The evidence adduced in Abel Remusat's paper on
Karakorum (Mem. de l' Acad. R. des Insc. VII. 288) establishes the site
on the north bank of the Orkhon, and about five days' journey above the
confluence of the Orkhon and Tula. But as we have only a very loose
knowledge of these rivers, it is impossible to assign the geographical
position with accuracy. Nor is it likely that ruins exist beyond an
outline perhaps of the Kaan's Palace walls."
In the Geographical Magazine for July, 1874 (p. 137), Sir Henry Yule has
been enabled, by the kind aid of Madame Fedtchenko in supplying a
translation from the Russian, to give some account of Mr. Paderin's visit
to the place, in the summer of 1873, along with a sketch-map.
"The site visited by Mr. Paderin is shown, by the particulars stated in
that paper, to be sufficiently identified with Karakorum. It is precisely
that which Remusat indicated, and which bears in the Jesuit maps, as
published by D'Anville, the name of Talarho Hara Palhassoun (i.e. Kara
Balghasun), standing 4 or 5 miles from the left bank of the Orkhon, in
lat.
