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0426	Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7

0426

Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

shot up into the sky; to the north the Kuen Luen mountains walled the horizon;
while eastwards stretched a barren desert, bounded by hills the ridges of which were
fantastically shaped into domes, towers, and minarets.»¹

The peaks of the Kara-korum shot up into the sky. And still one of the
members of the expedition, ROBERT SHAW, denied the existence of the Kara-korum!
After another 25 miles to the north they reached Lak Zung, and again found
fossiliferous limestone with *Encrinites* and *Hippurites*. He has a diagram showing a
section of one of the hills in the neighbourhood: at the bottom, Lower limestone,
on which there is Red Sandstone and at the top, Upper limestone with talus.

Fifteen miles to Tarl Dat (Taldat). The view from here was »exceedingly
grand. The Kuen Luen range, tipped with snow, and the valleys filled with glaciers,
extended like a wall across the northern horizon 30 to 40 miles distant»; between
them and the mountains was an open plain covered for miles by an ice-bed.

After some fifty miles more they reached the Kara-kash River, surrounded by
rugged peaks of granite more than 20,000 feet high, slate and gneiss prevailed,
but the higher peaks appeared to be composed of granite. Their height, where
reaching the river, was at 15,600 feet. He remarks that the last part of its course
above Khotan had not yet been explored.

The lower Kara-kash skirts the southern base of the Kwen-lun Range, the
higher peaks of which rise to 24,000 feet. On the southern side of the valley
there is another range, or series of ranges, of mountains less lofty and less regular
than those on the north.

From Sanju-davan he gives the following geological profile: the pass is in
granite, then undulating hills of gneiss and mica schist, much contorted, then a
vertical bed of limestone containing *Rhodocrinus*, then »carboniferous» and finally
hills of blown sand over horizontal strata of red and white sandstone. The carboni-
ferous limestone seems, however, only to be conjectural. The Sanju-davan he regards
as the top of the Kwen-lun.

After their visit to Eastern Turkestan, they left Yarkand on September 5th.
Having crossed the Suget-davan (16,000 feet) they »could see the Karakoram
mountains twenty miles to the south, forming a wall of rugged snow capped peaks
across the horizon».

They followed the Kara-kash »to its source», through a desolate weird-looking
valley. At Kush-maidan the narrative suddenly comes to an end. A good general
map, reproduced here as Pl. LX, accompanies the work, but the Kara-korum moun-
tains are not distinctly shown.²

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