Central Asia: From the Aryan to the CossackTinsley Bros., 1875 - 472 頁 |
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... mountains and fruitful plains , well inhabited , and watered with rivers . Nature seems to have divided this region into three large parts , by the names of the countries of Karesm , Great Bucharia , and Little Bucharia . ' Towards the ...
... mountains and fruitful plains , well inhabited , and watered with rivers . Nature seems to have divided this region into three large parts , by the names of the countries of Karesm , Great Bucharia , and Little Bucharia . ' Towards the ...
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... mountains , observed by M. Semenof , and through the neglect of their channels due to the diminution of the agricultural population by incessant strife and bloodshed . It is in this manner that eminent geographer accounts for the drying ...
... mountains , observed by M. Semenof , and through the neglect of their channels due to the diminution of the agricultural population by incessant strife and bloodshed . It is in this manner that eminent geographer accounts for the drying ...
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... Mountains , and Visit to the Upper Course of the Jaxartes or Syr Daria , in 1857. By P. P. Semenof . Translated by John Michell . Roy . Geog . Soc . Journ . xxxi . W. H. Johnson's Report on his Journey to Ilchi , capital of Khotan in ...
... Mountains , and Visit to the Upper Course of the Jaxartes or Syr Daria , in 1857. By P. P. Semenof . Translated by John Michell . Roy . Geog . Soc . Journ . xxxi . W. H. Johnson's Report on his Journey to Ilchi , capital of Khotan in ...
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... mountains , and , descending into the plains , commingled their waters and formed the Oxia Palus . In Dr Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , however , it is suggested that the Oxia Palus is identical with the Karakul Lake ...
... mountains , and , descending into the plains , commingled their waters and formed the Oxia Palus . In Dr Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , however , it is suggested that the Oxia Palus is identical with the Karakul Lake ...
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From the Aryan to the Cossack James Hutton. Mountains , to the north of Samarkand , the Aral was only entitled to the appellation of a reedy marsh , though some thirty years afterwards the Oxus may have ceased to fill its western branch ...
From the Aryan to the Cossack James Hutton. Mountains , to the north of Samarkand , the Aral was only entitled to the appellation of a reedy marsh , though some thirty years afterwards the Oxus may have ceased to fill its western branch ...
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第 104 頁 - Next, the more temperate Toorkmuns of the south, The Tukas, and the lances of Salore, And those from Attruck and the Caspian sands; Light men, and on light steeds, who only drink The acrid milk of camels, and their wells.
第 11 頁 - Right for the Polar Star, past Orgunje, Brimming, and bright, and large : then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and...
第 105 頁 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
第 11 頁 - To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high...
第 329 頁 - Chok'd by the air, and scarce can they themselves Slake their parch'd throats with sugar'd mulberries^ — In single file they move, and stop their breath, For fear they should dislodge the o'erhanging snows — So the pale Persians held their breath with fear.
第 390 頁 - Europeans are utterly incapable of filling them. We treat them as an inferior race of beings. Men, who under a native government might have held the first dignities of the State, who, but for us, might have been governors of provinces, are regarded as little better than menial servants, are often no better paid, and scarcely permitted to sit in our presence.
第 104 頁 - From their black tents, long files of horse, they stream'd; As when some grey November morn the files, In marching order spread, of long-necked cranes Stream over Casbin and the southern slopes Of Elburz, from the Aralian estuaries, Or some frore Caspian reed-bed, southward bound For the warm Persian sea-board — so they stream'd.
第 361 頁 - Pamier, and you ride across it for twelve duys together, finding nothing but a desert, without habitations or any green thing, so that travellers are obliged to carry with them whatever they have need of.
第 360 頁 - And when you leave this little country, and ride three days north-east, always among mountains, you get to such a height that 'tis said to be the highest place in the world ! And when you have got to this height you find [a great lake between two mountains, and out of it] a fine river running through a plain. . . . The plain is called PAMIER.
第 250 頁 - In such cases it always happens that the more civilized State is forced, in the interest of the security of its frontier and its commercial relations, to exercise a certain ascendancy over those whom their turbulent and unsettled character make most undesirable neighbors.