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0122 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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there four miles above the sea, drove away the thought of
discomfort.

From the top of the pass of Chang La, ten days before,
I had looked to the southwest across the Indus valley to
the middle range of the Himalayas, and had been impressed
by the evenness of the sky-line brought out in the accom-
panying photograph. At an earlier date, when looking
northward from the lamasery of Himis, I had noted the
same feature in the main range to the northwest of Chang
La. Now, from my nameless mountain, the view seemed,
at first sight, to be of a different nature. It was character-
ized by sharp, freshly-cut forms. Closer examination, how-
ever, showed that there were three kinds of slopes. The
youngest were the steep valley sides due to glaciation, and
rising two or three thousand feet above the streams. Above
them, and often merging into or undercut by them, there
were less precipitous, but, nevertheless, very steep young
slopes due to the ordinary non-glacial processes of erosion.
Higher yet, the mountain tops, for the most part, were
characterized by gentler slopes and occasional smooth crests.
Some of these appear in several of the illustrations of this
chapter. If the gentler slopes are reconstructed, a sub-
dued mountainous country is produced, with a topography
like that of New England, old mountains with gentle slopes
rising sometimes into "Monadnocks" four or five thousand
feet above the general level.

Farther north, we found that the deep young inner gorge
of the Shyok River grows shallower, and finally merges into
the upland plain of Depsang near the centre of the Kara-
korum plateau. The topography of Depsang is of the same