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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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cal features and of their influence on the distribution of
living species. It must deal with a given region, or natural
province, as a whole; and must describe the entire assem-
blage of organic forms which result from a specified group
of inorganic controlling features. The description is not
complete unless it includes the highest and most inter-
esting realm of geography, — the influence of physical
environment, directly or through other forms of life, upon
the mental and moral condition of man.
In accordance with this view of geography, I shall de-
scribe some of the chief and most typical physical features
of Central Asia, not for their own sake, but as a preparation
for the study of their relation to life. Then I shall set forth
certain events, conversations, and scenes which fell within
my own experience, and shall show how they illustrate
the influence of the physical environment already described
upon the habits, thought, and character of the people.
The descriptions centre in five basins located in northern
India, western China, eastern Persia, and Asiatic Russia.
The first basin, that of Kashmir, lies among the Himalaya
mountains. Unlike the others, it has sufficient rainfall, so
that it is not self-contained, but is drained by the Jhelum
River, which flows out through a gorge in the surrounding
mountains and reaches the sea. Hence the conditions of
life are different from those of Central Asia in general, and
resemble those of moister countries, such as Italy. The next
three basins, those of Lop and Turfan in China, and Seyis-
tan (Sistan, or Seistan) in Persia, are so arid that their
rivers either dwindle to nothing in the desert, or end in
shallow salt lakes. They closely resemble one another, and
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