Ta-t’sien lu, Lithang, Tibet, China (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"the dividing range Ta-pa-shan is less in height than the T’sing-ling range"

"M. Gabriel Durand, a missionary priest, thus describes his journey in 1861 to Kiangka, viâ Ta-t’sien-lu, a line of country partly coincident with that which Polo is traversing."

"Mr. T. T. Cooper crossed it further north, by Ta-t’sien lu, Lithang and Bathang;"

"…this road from Ch’êng-tu fu to Ta-li by Ya-chau and Ning-yuan appears to be that by which … Ta-li fu is renowned as the strongest hold of Western Yun-nan, with a small old city overlooking its large lake."

"whilst M. Garnier mentions that the exchange at Ta-li in 1869 was 12 to 1 (I. 522)."

"the same in fact that was till recently called the Ta-t’sing."

"on their arrival at Ta-tu, Kúblái’s chief queen, Jamui Khatun, treated them with delicate consideration."

"Gaubil’s statement that he was wounded in 1212 by a stray arrow compelled him to raise the siege of Ta-t’ung Fu."

"[At Hsia-Kuan, near Ta-li, Captain Gill remarked to a friend (II. p. 312) “that the salt, instead of being in the usual great flat cakes …"

"…this route coincides with the great Tibet road by Ta-t’sien lu and Bathang to L’hása..."

"commandant of Ta-li fu is mentioned in the Chinese account"

"then enters the Ta-t’sing channel, passing north of T’si-nan to the sea."