The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 475
... Pamír Uplands to Kokand , and had sought to return to Europe by traversing the Kirghiz Steppes . Arrested , however , in his pro- gress northward and plundered by the Kirghiz , he was compelled to fall back on Bokhara and Samarcand ...
... Pamír Uplands to Kokand , and had sought to return to Europe by traversing the Kirghiz Steppes . Arrested , however , in his pro- gress northward and plundered by the Kirghiz , he was compelled to fall back on Bokhara and Samarcand ...
Page 478
... Pamír Steppes seemed to be much too contracted , and the positions of Tanglak and Terek - chai were trans- ferred from the north to the south of the plateau ; and it was further suspicious that in pursuing the valley of the Jaxartes to ...
... Pamír Steppes seemed to be much too contracted , and the positions of Tanglak and Terek - chai were trans- ferred from the north to the south of the plateau ; and it was further suspicious that in pursuing the valley of the Jaxartes to ...
Page 482
... Pamír and descending on Yarkend , while the other , which has been already alluded to , crosses the great range to Badakhshan and the valley of the Oxus . Raverty says of this line of route : The road is somewhat difficult between Panj ...
... Pamír and descending on Yarkend , while the other , which has been already alluded to , crosses the great range to Badakhshan and the valley of the Oxus . Raverty says of this line of route : The road is somewhat difficult between Panj ...
Page 484
... Pamír . Ac- cording to Humboldt's system , which is still adopted generally as the ground - work of our maps of Asia , the northern and southern ranges were united to the west of Kashgar by a transverse ridge , which he names the Belút ...
... Pamír . Ac- cording to Humboldt's system , which is still adopted generally as the ground - work of our maps of Asia , the northern and southern ranges were united to the west of Kashgar by a transverse ridge , which he names the Belút ...
Page 485
... Pamír , where the table - land is lost in the rocky summits of the Muz - tagh , a number of streams drain off to the southward , forming two subsidiary Indus systems . A culminating ridge which runs out from the south - east corners of ...
... Pamír , where the table - land is lost in the rocky summits of the Muz - tagh , a number of streams drain off to the southward , forming two subsidiary Indus systems . A culminating ridge which runs out from the south - east corners of ...
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