IIIF Color HighRes
National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
| |||||||||
|
| IIIF Color HighRes |
| Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Citation Information
CHAP. viII.] A LAND OF EXTREMES.
193.
Once out of the surrounding desert, the tra-
veller finds himself amidst the most inviting
surroundings cool shady lanes with water-
courses running in every direction, alongside
the road, across it, and under it, giving life
to everything where before all was dead and
bare and burnt. On either hand, as far as
can be seen, lie field after field of ripening
crops, only broken by the fruit gardens and
shady little hamlets. Everything seems in
plenty. Fruit is brought before you in huge
trayfuls, and wheat is cheaper than even in
India.
In this way it is a land of extremes. On
one side nothing not the possibility of any-
thing ; on the other plenty. And the climate
has as great extremes as the physical appear-
ance. The summer is scorchingly hot any-
where outside the small portion that is culti-
vated and shaded with trees ; and in the winter
the thermometer falls to zero Fahrenheit.
This is the natural result of the position of the
country in the very heart of the greatest con-
tinent, .where none of the tempering effects of
the sea could possibly reach it.
The people, however, do not share this
o
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019 National Institute of Informatics and The Toyo Bunko. All Rights Reserved.