. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. THK MADRASSA SHIR DAR, SAMARKAND no more impressive and picturesque sight than this great market,crowded with stalls and shouting buyers and sellers, while highabove and all around the human ant-heap stand these vast archi-tectural splendours of an age long past, the note of heavenly bluedominating all. The city, flat and sombre, was ringed around. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 327 with gardens and vineyards. Around these was the bare, sandydesert, rolHng up into the Mai range. Behind
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. THK MADRASSA SHIR DAR, SAMARKAND no more impressive and picturesque sight than this great market,crowded with stalls and shouting buyers and sellers, while highabove and all around the human ant-heap stand these vast archi-tectural splendours of an age long past, the note of heavenly bluedominating all. The city, flat and sombre, was ringed around. SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 327 with gardens and vineyards. Around these was the bare, sandydesert, rolHng up into the Mai range. Behind me was the peace-
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