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 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
250 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IX.
descending the southern side the aspect of the
mountains suddenly changed. Hitherto, from
far away at their rise from the Yarkand plains,
the mountains had been barren and destitute
of any trace of forest. Occasionally in some
favoured sheltered spot a dwarfed tree or two
might be seen, but as a whole it was only in
the valley bottoms and on cultivated lands that
any trees were met with. Now the trans-
formation was complete. We had reached the
southern-facing slopes of the outward ridge of
the Himalayas, and upon these slopes all the
rains of the monsoon are expended. Con-
sequently while on the northern side are bare
sun-baked rocks only, on the southern side the
mountain slopes are densely packed with forest.
We passed rapidly down the beautifully
wooded Sind valley, with its meadows and pine
forests, its rushing torrents and snow-clad
mountain summits, and at last reached the
open valley of Kashmir itself. Some seven
or eight miles' march brought us to Srinagar,
that most picturesquely situated but dirtiest
of all towns, and then for the first time I
realised how very dirty I myself was, and how
rough I had become. Dressed in a Yarkand
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