Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 27- VIEW ACROSS LAKE CHAKMAKTIN TOWARDS AK-TASH, LITTLE A B C 28. IN THE FELT TENT OF MUHAMMAD ISA, KIRGHIZ HEAD-MAN OF AFGHAN , B. Af2:han Ofificers. C. Muhammad Isa. TO THE LITTLE PAMIR 79 bare glacis-like slopes still showing no sign of spring(Fig. 27). The impression of height in the snow-coveredranges on either side, though they reach to points over18,000 feet, was largely discounted by our own elevation,just over 13,000 feet according to the Pamir BoundaryCommission
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 27- VIEW ACROSS LAKE CHAKMAKTIN TOWARDS AK-TASH, LITTLE A B C 28. IN THE FELT TENT OF MUHAMMAD ISA, KIRGHIZ HEAD-MAN OF AFGHAN , B. Af2:han Ofificers. C. Muhammad Isa. TO THE LITTLE PAMIR 79 bare glacis-like slopes still showing no sign of spring(Fig. 27). The impression of height in the snow-coveredranges on either side, though they reach to points over18,000 feet, was largely discounted by our own elevation,just over 13,000 feet according to the Pamir BoundaryCommissions triangulation. And yet there lay over thewhole a sensation of vastness which made me feel here, asyears before on the heights of Muztagh-ata, that I waslooking, indeed, across the * Roof of the World. Forclose on fifty miles to the north-east along the course ofthe Ak-su the eye could travel quite unhindered, and ata still greater distance beyond I could recognize bold icypyramids, close on 21,000 feet in height, which overlookthe valleys of Tash-kurghan and Tagharma. In spite of the bright sky a bitterly cold windblew all day from the south-west. So I wa
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