[1912, H. S. Brunnert, V. V. Hagelstrom, N. Th. Kolessoff, “Metropolitan Prefecture and Manchuria, Provincial Administration and Dependencies of China”, in A. Beltchenko, E. E. Moran, transl., Present Day Political Organization of China[1], translation of original in Russian, →OCLC, page 450:
The district of Altai (in Chinese 阿爾泰A⁴ Êrh³ Tʻai⁴, or 金山 Chin¹ Shan¹; see NO. 869A) was made distinct from that of Kʻobdo (see NO. 876) in 1907 (see an Imperial Decree of the 20th January, 1907, issued in consequence of representations by[…]]
The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slope may exceed 40 meters in 12 hours.
Veteran herdsman K'o-k'o-tzu of Teng-t'a commune was famous for his "geographic knowledge; he knows many peaks, wate[sic], roads, and prairies in central A-erh-t'ai (Altai) Mountain region.
The O-erh-ch'i-ssu River begins in the southern section of the lofty A-erh-t'ai Mountains of Sinkiang. This river is over 2,900 kilometers long and has a large delta area rich in minerals such as gold, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, mica, crystal and "ping-chou-shih" [3056 3166 4258 possibly cryolite]. At the source of the O-erh-ch'i-ssu River, the A-erh-t'ai Mountains reach more than 3,000 meters above sea level. The peaks of the mountains are covered with snow year-round, and rainfall is heavy in the summer.
You who are going to Peking please remember our words. Chairman Mao's kindness is higher than the A-erh-t'ai Mountain. The Kazakh people wish Chairman Mao a long life!
1973 February 16 [1972 February], “Shih-chieh Ti-t'u-ts'e (World Atlas) [世界地圖冊]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China[6], number 214, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 16:
The A-erh-t'ai Mountains are famous for the production of gold.
1975 August 18 [1974 May], “Study of China's Deserts [中国沙漠概论 CHUNG-KUO SHA-MO KAI-LUN]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 316, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, Desert Laboratory Lanchow Institute of Glacier, Frozen Ground and Desert Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences [中国科学院兰州冰川冻土沙漠研究所沙漠研究室], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 47[7]:
While stabilized and semistabilized sand dunes prevail in the desert in the Dzungarian Basin, shifting dunes are the rule in this desert, intermittently distributed along both the south and north banks of the O-erh-ch'i-szu Ho in the northwestern part of the basin. Lying under these dunes are the sloping diluvial terraces and undulating slopes of the mountain bases. Due to its high elevation and its being situated in the river valley between the Sa-wu-erh and A-erh-t'ai mountain ranges, gale force wind penetrates the region in winter and little snow is accumulated.
1977, John William Schiffeler, The Legendary Creatures of the Shan Hai Ching[8], volume 2, Orient Cultural Service, →OCLC, page 70:
This mountain is believed to refer to the present-day mountain range of A-erh-t'ai (BTR) or the Altai Mountains that border between the southwestern Mongolian People's Republic and the northern region of the Autonomous Region[...]
The apparent disjunct distribution may be an artifact of no collections made in northernmost Gansu and the A-erh-t’ai shan (Mongolian and Chinese Altay).
