. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. g the ascent, a most arduous business eff^ectedby relays of animals. Here again, as often on our journeys,we had reason to congratulate ourselves on having a caravanof good pack mules instead of carts. The Liupan Shan isa prominent range of mountains rising far above the loess,which crosses Kansu from to ; it is probablya continuation of the chief range of the Nan Shan, whichis crossed by the main road west of Lanchou at the WushaoLing (10,000 feet) and through which
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. g the ascent, a most arduous business eff^ectedby relays of animals. Here again, as often on our journeys,we had reason to congratulate ourselves on having a caravanof good pack mules instead of carts. The Liupan Shan isa prominent range of mountains rising far above the loess,which crosses Kansu from to ; it is probablya continuation of the chief range of the Nan Shan, whichis crossed by the main road west of Lanchou at the WushaoLing (10,000 feet) and through which the Yellow Riverbreaks its way in a series of precipitous gorges betweenLanchou and Chungwei. From the pass there is a steepdrop of about a thousand feet, and the road then descendsthrough a dreary barren valley to Lungte Hsien, a mostmiserable little city almost entirely in ruins, 50 li fromWating. The loess country west of the Liupan Shan ismuch more barren and desiccated than on the Pingliangside, and round Lungte the poor-looking wheat crops wereonly just showing above ground towards the end of May. PLATE XXV. DEPARTURE P INGLIANG
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