. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 374 EUSSIA IN EUROPE. Yelton, the Altan-Nor, or " Gold Lake," of the Kalmuks, so named, doubtless, from its dazzling glitter in the rays of the sun. It lies in a desolate region, where the brown or yellow clays are relieved not by patches of verdure, but by lines of white salt disposed in cones like the tents of an army, or by the wretched hovels of the labourers, and the lumbering waggons, with their teams of oxen, Fig. 199.—Steppes North of the Caspian. Scale 1 : 4,120, Clays. Sands. K3 Sandy Soil. Grev Earlh. Silt Tracts. 6)
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 374 EUSSIA IN EUROPE. Yelton, the Altan-Nor, or " Gold Lake," of the Kalmuks, so named, doubtless, from its dazzling glitter in the rays of the sun. It lies in a desolate region, where the brown or yellow clays are relieved not by patches of verdure, but by lines of white salt disposed in cones like the tents of an army, or by the wretched hovels of the labourers, and the lumbering waggons, with their teams of oxen, Fig. 199.—Steppes North of the Caspian. Scale 1 : 4,120, Clays. Sands. K3 Sandy Soil. Grev Earlh. Silt Tracts. 6) Salt Maislus. Shifting Sands. .slowly moving towards the Volga. The lake, with its violet-red waters, covers an area of several square miles, but with a uniform depth of scarcely 12 inches, 60 that the entire mass becomes displaced whenever the wind sets strongly from any given quarter. Its bed consists exclusively of extremely hard saline layers, which have not yet been pierced to any great depth, the workmen confining. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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