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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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which is sand. Near Pidjan I saw a similar though lower
range, and Prjevalsky mentions seeing one near Sachow.
The Hurku Hills come to an end here, and we could see
before us across the plain, at a distance of eighty miles, the
outlying spurs of the Altai Mountains; but though the former
terminated here as a continuous range, yet they are connected
to a certain extent, by a series of isolated hills to the north, with
the Altai Mountains. This connection may, perhaps, be best
illustrated by supposing the country to be flooded to a height of
about four thousand feet above ordinary sea-level. Then on
the west would be seen the great headlands of the Altai Moun-
tains; on the east two capes (the Hurku Hills and the southern
range) running out into the ocean. To the north would be a
series of islands, stepping-stones as it were, forming the con-
nection between the Hurku Hills and the Altai Mountains. To
the south would be the open sea.
The Hurku range has an extreme length of about two
hundred and twenty miles. It is highest in the western end,
where it presents rather the appearance of a string of elongated
ridges than of a continuous range, as it does further east. Its
highest point is the prominent mountain, for which I obtained
the name Barosakhai, but which I have not the slightest doubt
is identical with the mountain called by the Russian traveller
Pevstof, Gourbaun-Seikyn.* The height of this mountain is
probably about eight thousand feet above the sea, and it had
slight snow on it in the middle of June.
The ridges to the west of this have a height of about seven
thousand feet; while to the east, where Prjevalsky crossed the
range, it was 6120 feet above sea-level, and from that point it
still diminishes in height to the eastward—at its termination
having an approximate height of five thousand feet. Its width,
where Prjevalsky crossed, is seven miles. Throughout it pre-
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