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0059	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

pare at the "dak bungalows" where we spent the nights.
We had not been able to find a satisfactory servant to act
as interpreter, so we talked by signs much of the time, and
found it surprisingly easy.

Kashmir is an excellent example of a kind of warped
basin found in many parts of the world. It is like an el-
liptical tray, a hundred miles long from southeast to north-
west and forty or fifty wide. The rim consists of the front
and middle ranges of the Himalayas, which merge at either
end. The slopes of individual mountains are very steep,
but the rim as a whole is about two miles high and ten
times as wide. During the course of ages, the bottom of
the tray has been warped downward and the rim has been
warped up. The Jhelum River has sometimes, perhaps,
been checked by the rising rim; and the lower part of the
tray has been converted into a lake. In general, however,
the river has been able to cut its way across the gradually
rising mountains just as a circular saw cuts its way into a
piece of wood thrust against it. The result is the deep gorge
of the Jhelum, the peculiar course of which to the southwest
of Kashmir appears on the map. The gorge is so narrow
and impassable in its lower portion that the famous Murree
road, the chief exit from Kashmir, is obliged to leave it and
climb five thousand feet over a pass in order to reach Rawal
Pindi, a few miles west of the point where the river emerges
on the main plain of India. While the Jhelum has been
cutting its gorge, the basin of Kashmir has been receiving
vast deposits of gravel and silt, brought down by the numer-
ous swift streams from the mountains, and deposited on
the flat basin floor to a depth of hundreds or thousands of

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