IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
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引用情報
216 AMONG THE CELESTIALS.
CHAPTER IX.
THE MUSTAGH PASS.
" The palaces of nature, whose vast walls
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps
And throned eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls
The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow !
All that expands the spirit, yet appals,
Gather around those summits, as to show
How earth may reach to heaven, yet leave vain man below."
-Byron.
THE Mustagh Pass, which we were now ap-
proaching, is on the main watershed, which
both divides the rivers of India from the rivers
of Turkestan, and also the British from the
Chinese dominions. Peaks along the water-
shed, in the vicinity of the pass, had been
fixed by trigonometrical observations from
the Indian side at 24,000, 26,00o, and as we
have seen in one case at over 28,000 feet in
height, so I could scarcely doubt that the pass
across the range must be lofty and difficult. It
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