麗江府志略(民國·卷二) · Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer (Republican-era reprint, Juan 二) · Naxi Digital Library
Chinese: 麗江府志略上卷
圖象略 形與圖說 氣候星象考 祥異附疆域
申畫郊圻治邉為要而天象人事協若應響寧
遐方獨可忽歟麗江西南極邉畛域壤接吐蕃
星野度入井宿蓋滇之僻壤而天末奧區乎
聖朝德威遐暢疆索遼廓振古無倫麗在萬里如几
席然昔李德裕節度西川圖西南山川道里於
籌邉樓以知四郵險塞周禮天官風俗通歲時
紀諸書分野以辦封域氣候以識災祥經國之
謨於是乎寓麗未可以荒遠而遺之也改設未
久文獻無徵俯察地理仰觀天文附以疆域形
勢氣候祥異亦曰此其大略也云爾作圖象略
輿圖說
麗江古越嶲屬地發脈於西藏枯爾坤金沙瀾滄
兩江夾持至老君山穹隆鬱律為滇省衆山鼻祖
老君西分大理東入麗江轉石鼓經阿喜東北折
而象山綿延府治建焉黃山右環吳烈左峙雪峯
雄踞於後三臺特拱於前麗水繞其東北怒江界
English: Lijiang Prefecture Gazetteer, Upper Volume
Illustrations and Maps Section — Topography and Illustrations, Climate, Star Field Examination, Auspicious and Strange Omens, with Territorial Boundaries Appended
In delineating the borders of the realm, governance of the frontier is of paramount concern; yet celestial phenomena and human affairs respond in harmony like an echo. How, then, could the distant frontier alone be neglected? Lijiang, lying at the extreme southwestern edge, its boundaries adj