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0703 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 703 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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by a little mountain ridge is prevented from entering the lake itself; it therefore
joins the channel a very short distance from the point where the latter leaves the lake.
The resemblance between the two lower lakes, Rakas-tal and Orin-nor, is not
less striking. Their forms are more irregular, their shores richer in bays, capes
and rocky promontories, especially along the southern shores, which is quite natural
as they are situated nearer the margin of the highlands, more surrounded by
mountains and farther away from the flatter plateau-land. In both cases the northern
part is narrow, the southern broad, and in both cases the effluents — the Satlej (though