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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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and descended a wide valley or plain between
those two ranges on the western side of the
connecting ridge. Between us and the southern
range was a most remarkable range of sandhills,
called by my guide Hun-kua-ling. It was about
forty miles in length, and composed of bare
sand, without a vestige of vegetation of any
sort on it, and I computed it in places to be as
much as nine hundred feet in height, rising
abruptly out of a gravel plain. With the dark
outline of the southern hills as a background,
this white fantastically shaped sand-range pre-
sented a very striking appearance. It must
have been formed by the action of the wind,
for to the westward is an immense sandy tract,
and it is evident that the wind has driven the
sand from this up into the hollow between the
Hurku Hills and the range to the south, thus
forming these remarkable sandhills.
After passing the end of the sand-range, we
entered a country different from any we had
yet been through. In the stage of its evolution
previous to the present it was probably a plain
of sand. But the elements of the air seem to
have fought with and rent the very surface of
the land, torn it up and tossed it about, here
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