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0159 The heart of a continent : vol.1
The heart of a continent : vol.1 / Page 159 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000247
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skull, so that I had the whole fro
it was as big a one as was to be p
horns I saw to-day were diffe
the Altai Mountains. The int
sometimes inches round to squar
crumbled, and not so much pointe
mp are the same.

range at a height of eight thousa
ill-while the ascent was not deep b
ow valley. The last mile or two w
near the summit there was a perfec
no-owy; and I am sure I shall nev
the pleasure it was, seeing all th
and green, in place of those dreary
Desert. The sun had now set, and I h
as a last hope of seeing at clos
a sigh of one. There was no pos
higher peaks rose all round, and t
tamper of the plain to the south o
tant haze.

trees to be seen; and a curious fe
that there is absolutely no tree
to the summit of the pas
tion. From this absence of tree
not more than five or six hundre
hills on either side—were mo
as in the Himalaya. They slop
ing out at their summits, and fro
miles on the southern side of t
e valley bottom was partitioned d
igation ducts had been let; but th
and the water was wasted in floo
trees now began to appear mo
s, we pitched camp on a little gre