. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. f Ali Malik ke-mur, marked by someprominent rocks, out of which the natives have made huts by theaddition of some rough stone walls. The stage is 13,450 feet high. The The Botanical Appendix of Prof. Pirotta and Dr. Cortesi contains a list of the plantscollected on the Deosai table-land. The Ileluni to Sriiiagnr. 345 clouds had been gathering over the chains, and a little after we reachedthe spot a furious raijistorm broke, accompanied by thunder andlightning, a sp
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. f Ali Malik ke-mur, marked by someprominent rocks, out of which the natives have made huts by theaddition of some rough stone walls. The stage is 13,450 feet high. The The Botanical Appendix of Prof. Pirotta and Dr. Cortesi contains a list of the plantscollected on the Deosai table-land. The Ileluni to Sriiiagnr. 345 clouds had been gathering over the chains, and a little after we reachedthe spot a furious raijistorm broke, accompanied by thunder andlightning, a spectacle to which we had long been strangers. The undulating plain of Deosai is irregularly circular in form, some-what more than 30 miles hi diameter, and from 13,000 to feetabove sea level. It is girdled by mountains averaging about 17,500 feetwith small glaciers and snowfields. Shallow valleys run into it, makinga sort of shell-shaped expanse. Oestreich has called attention to thesingular contrast between the flat monotonous plain and the stronglymarked features of the surrounding region, all angles and corners, cut. THE DEOSAI T.\BLE-LAND. and broken by deep valleys between steep walls and ragged offered the hypothesis that the plain might have originated in afilling up of the valleys with alluvial sediment during the glacial seems to think that the process is still going on, largely throughthe medium of the mud streams. It may be that such a theory fitsthe conditions of the plateaus of Central Asia and Tibet, which are, infact, composed of sedimentary matter. But the Deosai plam is a solidformation of granite and gneiss, as Vigne recognized. K. Oestreichand Ellsworth Huntingdon described it as an upheaval not yet shapedor furrowed by the action of water. ^ It is full of glacier marks anddeposits, and must once have been entirely covered by a large glacierof the continental type. The route crosses the plain in an absolutely straight line from
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