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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| Overland to India : vol.1 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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CH. XXIII WESTERN MARGIN OF THE KEVIR 255
With the panorama of the southern hills to the right, and the Kevir at some distance on the left, we proceed east-south-east in the pleasant morning weather. Between the two stretches an extremely flat belt of steppe, with fine gravel and scattered shrubs and shallow erosion furrows running north-east. We follow a path which seems to be seldom used, at least it is torn up by furrows in which water has not flowed for long. It is a good day's journey to the southern hills, and the visual angles to their summits therefore change very slowly. Here also
A the Kevir has a sharp boundary, and along the whole
day's route there runs a real shore line between the barren
1?: surface and the steppe. We follow it closely all day, and
lit have a boundless and monotonous view over the salt
desert,—a lake never rippled by the wind, and where no melodious billows beat against the strand.
lti Steppe shrubs grow very freely, and among them
ri. camel tracks cross one another in every direction. As in
the Lop desert, we often find traces of lime mixed with
ill sand, which is deposited round the stems and stalks of
certain plants, and falls to pieces when touched. On the stones are often seen etched markings, and as at the foot
s of the hills the twin ridges produced by deflation. From
the strand margin, where we march, the steppe rises slowly to the southern hills, and is intersected by a number of small shallow trenches, which are rather to be conceived
Gi as divided delta arms of a more concentrated drainage-
1 channel higher up. One of these, larger than the rest,
evidently comes down from the lowest part of the southern hills, which seem to be cut through by a valley.
Hour after hour we advance along the shore exactly as yesterday, but under more favourable conditions ; for the
ground is hard and level, and the strand line is less
irregular. Far to the north, on the other side of the Kevir, is seen a faint outline of the hills there running out
in points, and I am grieved that I have had no opportunity of laying down the sharp boundary of the Kevir at their foot also ; but I console myself with the reflexion that I cannot do everything. On the southern hills still remain fields and streaks of snow, less exposed to melting as they
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