Advanced Geography . f south-east Asia. The mountainsare heavily forested. One of the pictures on page 65shows part of the vale of Kash-mir, situated among the Hima-layas not far from the placewhere the Indus river cuts acrossthe chain. The level land of this valewas once the bed of a lake. The riverwhich now meanders across the lakeplain is a branch of the Indus. Thepart shown in the picture is about amile above sea level, and the watermust flow a thousand miles or morebefore it reaches the sea. At the western end of the high-land of Tibet stand the Pamirplateaus. We may think of thisregion a
Advanced Geography . f south-east Asia. The mountainsare heavily forested. One of the pictures on page 65shows part of the vale of Kash-mir, situated among the Hima-layas not far from the placewhere the Indus river cuts acrossthe chain. The level land of this valewas once the bed of a lake. The riverwhich now meanders across the lakeplain is a branch of the Indus. Thepart shown in the picture is about amile above sea level, and the watermust flow a thousand miles or morebefore it reaches the sea. At the western end of the high-land of Tibet stand the Pamirplateaus. We may think of thisregion as the mountain center ofAsia. Almost all the loftiestranges of the continent radiate from the Pamirs. Eastward stretch the three huge ranges of Tibet. To-wards the northeast run the Thianshan mountains alongthe,, border of the Middle Basin. The Suliman rangeextends southward to the coast and cuts off India fromsouthwest Asia. The high Hindukush chain stretcheswestward along the northern border of the plateau of Khaibar Pass.
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