debouch upon the lake, one from the north-west, the other from the west-southwest, they are both narrow and deep, and in point of scenery have nothing in corn-mon with the big latitudinal valley which contains the Panggong-tso. The level expanse which forms the direct prolongation of this lake is narrow and insignificant, and is bounded on the west by the imposing mountain-mass that separates the two glens one from the other.
This little plain is however of rather a peculiar character, for it very closely resembles a miniature desert. Its surface consists exclusively of soft sand, arranged
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