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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xxx THROUGH THE DESERT BY NIGHT 349
see the northern horizon change its position time after time with regard to the caravan, which is now below, now above, and now on a level with its plane. The ground now lies in extremely flat undulations, which would not be perceptible to the eye if we had not the caravan as an
Z indicator.
k Now the sun soars clear above the horizon, and though
it has but just risen we feel the caress of a warmer, milder
, air. And yet the thermometer marks 27.3° at seven o'clock,
ii; but there is no wind and the sky is nearly quite clear,
presaging a fine day and a fortunate journey. Sharply
R marked, immensely long shadows lie on the port side of
Il the ships of the desert ; but their extreme points gradually
ii reach us as the minutes fly by.
ti We are not yet at the margin of the Kevir. A pond,
1i, left in a furrow, is sweet. We are in the transitional zone
I between the mainland and the Kevir, the farthest outskirts
h of the slopes of detritus and products of weathering from
Il the foot of the southern hills. Here we cross a series of
it hollows, very shallow but quite distinct and at right angles
It to our course ; they often lie very close together with low
a! ridges between them. I can conceive no reason for their
It formation, but I suppose that they are a kind of wrinkling
it or folding caused by thrusts and tangential pressure in
1 the suture where the firm land comes in contact with and
passes into kevir.
Now the sun has been up an hour and the temperature begins to be comfortable. The shadows shorten. In the course of the day they will describe a semicircle round us. It is pleasant to have the sun at our backs ; on the way from Turut to Khur the star of day will blind our eyes and burn our faces. The hills farthest to the east fade away in very light and evanescent tones. We are approaching the Kevir ! The ground, lately dark brown and grey, becomes now a light universal grey. Its surface is rough and lumpy. How vividly it reminds me of Tsaidam and its sterile salt desert, which also can be crossed only in a few directions ! Doubtless the Persian Kevir is a filled-up basin of the same kind.
The road is plain, for it has been trodden by many
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