Asia: Northern and eastern AsiaE. Stanford, 1906 |
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Ala-tau Altai altitude Amur Aral Sea Aralo-Caspian Aras Arctic Armenian Asiatic Baikal Balkhash basin Bokhara Caspian Caucasia Caucasus Central Asia centre China Chinese coast confluence crossed delta depression desert district east eastern eastwards elevation Erivan especially Euxine explored extremity farther feet flows formerly forms frontier glaciers gorges head-streams highlands hills Hoang-ho India Irtish island Issik-kul Kara-kul Kashgaria Khotan Kirghiz Kuen-lun Kuku-nor Kulja Lake Lake Baikal Lake Balkhash land Lassa left bank Lena Lob-nor lowlands mainly Manchuria Manich Mongol Mongolia mountain navigable nearly nomad north-east north-west northern numerous Ocean Oxus Pamir Pass peninsula Persian plains plateau population present province race range region ridges Rion rises river route Russian Siberia slopes south-east southern southwards square miles steppe stream stretching tableland Tarim Tarim basin Tatars Tian-shan Tibet Tibetan Tiflis town trade tribes Turkestan Turki uplands Upper valley vast water-parting western westwards whole Yang-tse Yenisei Zarafshan Zungaria
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الصفحة 117 - Nukus, at the head of the false delta. The tendency of the Oxus, like that of the great Siberian rivers, is to press continually on its right or east bank. The consequence of this tendency, which is due to the rotation of the earth round its axis from west to east, is that the stream has been gradually deflected from the Kungrad channel, navigable in the seventeenth century, but now dried up, eastwards to the Taldik channel, now slowly disappearing, and thence to the Yani-su, or " New River," which...
الصفحة 473 - I saw a dog eating a piece of carrion in the presence of several of these covetous birds. They evidently said a great deal to each other on the subject, and now and then one or two of them tried to pull the meat away from him, which he resented. At last a big, strong crow succeeded in tearing off a piece, with which he returned to the pine where the others were congregated, and after much earnest speech they all surrounded the dog, and the leading bird dexterously dropped the small piece of meat...
الصفحة 476 - The eyebrows are full, and form a straight line nearly across the face. The eyes are large, tolerably deeply set, and very beautiful, the colour a rich liquid brown, the expression singularly soft, and the eyelashes long, silky, and abundant. The skin has the Italian olive tint, but in most cases is thin, and light enough to show the changes of colour in the cheek.
الصفحة 435 - ... shapes. From the mast-head other groups were perceived lying one behind the other to the east and south as far as the eye could reach. Frequently above a hundred islands were in sight from deck at one moment. The sea being quite smooth, the weather fine, and many of the islands wooded and cultivated in the valleys, the scene was at all times lively, and was rendered still more interesting by our rapid passage along the coast, by which the appearances about us were perpetually changing. Of this...
الصفحة 246 - China, all converging at this point, these central plateaux, constituting the true heart of the continent, and determining its great water systems, form politically an integral portion of the Chinese Empire. Consequently to China alone belongs Central Asia, although the expression has found a place in the official language of Russian bureaucracy. Thus comprising Central and East Asia, the Chinese Empire is almost everywhere clearly delimited, on the north and north-west by Asiatic Russia, on the...
الصفحة 476 - ... very strongly built, the arms and legs short, thick, and muscular, the hands and feet large. The bodies, and specially the limbs, of many are covered with short bristly hair. I have seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as fine and soft as that of a cat. The heads and faces are very striking. The foreheads are very high, broad, and prominent, and at first sight give one the impression of an unusual capacity for intellectual development...
الصفحة 476 - The men are about the middle height, broadchested, broad-shouldered, 'thick-set,' very strongly built, the arms and legs short, thick, and muscular, the hands and feet large. The bodies, and specially the limbs, of many are covered with short bristly hair. I have seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as fine and soft as that of a cat.
الصفحة 291 - ... the fire, as I had given them strict orders not to fire unless absolutely obliged to. The character of all these nomads is much the same — greedy, faithless, and suspicious. Their suspicions do not attach only to foreigners ; every camp seems to view every other camp as not only a possible but a very probable enemy.
الصفحة 330 - Pennsylvanian deposits. It has an area of 16,000 square miles, stretching along both banks of the Tse-kiang (Lo-kiang) as far as Siang-Tang, and contains excellent anthracite in the south, and bituminous coal in the north. In the northern provinces, however, are found the most extensive and richest measures, spreading over 25 degrees of the meridian from the western deserts to the Yellow Sea. They belong mostly to the old carboniferous formations, and iron ores also abound in Shan-si, a chief centre...