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| Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.3 |
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Citation Information
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NORTH AND WEST OF THE ANAMBARUIN-ULA.
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mits of the Anambaruin-ula, towering skywards behind, are rendered still more impressive and striking.
With regard to the upper route mentioned above, I may here add the following information which I received from the Mongols of Dschong-duntsa. They told me, that at Be-schui-tschuen-tsa the track bifurcates, and of its two branches it was the lower one which we had followed. The upper branch, with which the above-mentioned route from Scho-ovo-tu would seem to be united, continues on as far as the Mo-baruin-gol, whence it coincides with our route to Kan-ambal. The upper
track keeps, as I have said, to a depression close under the northern foot of the Anambaruin-ula, traversing a country remarkable for its abundant grazing, and even for swampy ground. It is visited by several Mongols in the summer ; but in winter it is inaccessible because of the vast quantity of snow. The track itself is however anything but easy, for it climbs over a great number of passes, some of them reported to be rather difficult. The upper parts of the Aksä and the Dschong-duntsa are separated by a spur, on the east slope of which, not particularly steep, the springs of Aksä originate and stream down fan-like into the great glen, the lower course of which we were traversing. The western slope however, which belongs to the glen of Dschong-duntsa, is reported to be exceptionally steep, and to be five or six times loftier than the gravel-and-shingle escarpment above our camp, and it was
Hed i n, Tourney in Central Asia. III. 47
Fig. 29I. DSCHONG-DIJNTSA, THE RIGHT SIDE TERRACE.
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