Kansuh

Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

1832 June, “Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38

Round Tsing-hae or Kokonor dwell some small tribes of Hoshoits, Choros, Khoits, Tourgouths, and Kalkas, divided into twenty-nine standards. These are governed by a Tseangkeun or General, who resides at Se-ning-foo in Kansuh.

1832 August, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—“A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever.” By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume 1, number 4, Canton, page 119

Kansuh is bounded on the East and South by the provinces of Shensi and Szechuen respectively, the trackless desert is its great Northern neighbor, the Southwest adjoins Outer Tibet, and the vast Northwest was formed into a separate province not long ago, and is called the New Dominion. . . . Kansuh is one of the highways to the "Great Closed Land," hence an important factor as a stepping-stone in the evangelization of its barbarous hordes.

1907, David P. Ekvall, “Kansuh, and How to Get There”, in Outposts or Tibetan Border Sketches, New York: Alliance Press Co., →OCLC, pages 22–23