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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Kak Pass over the Hissar Mountains. |
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recalling similar varieties in America; and even more surprising was it to find true maple-sugar, made into flat cakes like ours. Their sugar-maples and yellow birches would pass for the rock-maples and yellow birches of New England.
In its upper portion the Sardai-miona is a terraced valley. Terraces diverge from the flood-plain near its head and increase in height downstream till the granite canyon begins, and there they vanish to reappear about 8 miles below Romette, where the valley opens out again. There we find them of loess and loess-capped alluvium in bluffs rising over 100 feet above stream. Below Romette the mountains are mantled with loess and patched here and there with grain-fields, some of them on slopes too steep for a horse to plow, and the land has to be hoed. The crops are brought down on wooden sleds that slide easily down these steep slopes of smooth loess. All the hillsides are scarred by tracks running straight down, as the same ones are used year after year. On the plains of Hissar similar sleds are used, but drawn by oxen instead of descending by gravity.
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