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Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.4 |
FROM LEH TO THE KARA-KORUM.
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masses of rock, and repeatedly we could not help fancying we were in danger of being crushed under the fall of some overhanging cornice or top-heavy shoulder of the mountain. The view down the glen kept changing every minute, though the glen preserved throughout its character of a gorge or defile. All the same the scenery was not monotonous; it afforded me a true delight to study the singular shapes which the different varieties of the capriciously bedded granite has assumed. Sometimes the rock was striped, sometimes coarse-grained, sometimes grey, sometimes brownish-red. In various places the natives have built bridge-like walls of
Hedin, 7ournev in Central Asia. IV. 50
Fig. 316. NARROW PASSAGES IN THE VALLEY.
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