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0737 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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[Photo] 327 ユルンカシュ河の頂部峡谷から見下ろす景色.標高約15、 000フィートから.VIEW DOWN THE HEAD GORGE OF YURUNG-KASH RIVER, FROM AN ELEVATION OF CIRC. 15,000 FEET.

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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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as an imposing and beautiful sight (Fig. 3
ged from light green to purple, and
w but very bold range which stretched al
n, being entirely covered by fresh snow p
of effusive setting. Hypsometrical readi
of close on 16,100 feet for the lake.
the middle of the day's march we pas
guisable old moraines in a valley studi
a side spur which was now quite clear eve
of big ice-worn boulders showed the
sion of those moraines projecting into the lake w
in the north must have pushed their mig
lake. The latter, with its glorious off
n bays and inlets, looked most inviting f
the solitude of its waters and shores w

road plateaus crossed after thirteen miles and
ew spread before us to the north and nort
reat snowy peaks above the Yurung-kas
mountains rose in a grand amphitheatre
less impressive. The spurs descending
as fifteen miles from the lake showed th
Broad valleys stretched up between
ast to the tortuous deep-cut gorges th
ours descending from the same range in
Yurung-kash. The higher slopes we
that no glaciers were to be seen. Alqu
s that the natural obstacles to the dri
the watershed range would be far less th
(alas!) our supplies and the strength of
finished, and we could not linger.
passage to the Kara-kash drainage wa
it was reassuring when from this pl
the western end of the lake, and could se
at the commencement of a depression sh
to open to us the hoped-for route westw
alley to which we then descended there
ches of coarse grass, and herds of wild
ould be seen grazing higher up.