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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1 |
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Undrained Parts of Asia. (From Élisće Reclus, The Earth and it's Inhabitants.) |
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this vast inner-continental region receives waters only from the precipitation over
the high mountains that separate it from the peripheral zone, and from such moun-
tains as rise sufficiently high within its own area.
Central Asia, from the western border of Manchuria to the western end of the
Black Sea, is a series of great and small landlocked basins. From these no water
flows to the ocean, excepting that which the Black Sea loses through the canyon
of the Bosporus, which was not opened to the Mediterranean until the present
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