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18 May 2018 by Alan

Image from page 101 of “Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi” (1912)

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Title: Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: De Filippi, Filippo, 1869-1938 Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933
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e us forget the fascinatingspectacle of the vale of Kashmirin its spring blossom, and thus theedge was taken oft from the sur-prising contrast between two regionsso wholly diverse from each other.They feel this contrast more keenlywho cross the Zoji La in summer,gazing to the very top of the passupon the green forests and rich pastures of the Sind valley, and thenloolving down on the other side upon the stony desert of Baltistan. Thereis probably no other range of mountains upon the face of the earth whosetwo slopes reveal features so absolutely opposed to one another. Thetraveller has crossed the great northern barrier of India, and hassuddenly entered a country which is physically identical with Tibet andCentral Asia. Padre Ippolito Desideri, an Italian missionary who crossed the ZojiLa on May 30th, 1715, describes the trans-Himalayan region in thefollowing words : From the foot of this pass throughout the wholeextent of the nine months march that it takes to get from here to China,

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The Dras \allfv. 73 there is no fertility, no greenness or pleasantness in the land, nothingbut the absolute and horrible desolation of the Caucasian mountains,which stretch all that way and which the geographers call dorsum orbis.^Padre Desideri went no farther than Leh, which is only fourteen orfifteen marches from Zoji La ; but the horrible desolation of themountains stretches over the whole of Baltistan and the neighbouringcountries of Gilgit and Astor to the west and Ladakh to the south-east—in other words, the whole of the region lying to the north of the westernHimalaya. It is an enormous strip, over 300 miles broad, all of it above7,000 feet high, and it seems distorted by a fearfid convulsion of the earthssurface. It is covered by a complicated system of mountain ranges,with peaks from 26,000 to 28,000 feet high, and includes immenseplateaus from 46 to 60 miles wide and from 15,000 to 17,000 feet abovesea level, as well as innumerable valleys and countless glaciers, someof

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10 May 2018 by Alan

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Title: Frémont and ’49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
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reen and Colorado rivers free from canyons. Just abovethe mouth of Ashley Creek is the end of Split-MountainCanyon, the termination also of the first section of canyons,beginning with Flaming Gorge, and broken only by BrownsHole towards which the caravan is heading. ^ Fremont keptto the left or west of these gorges, camping high up on themountainside on the night of the 6th of June at an altitudeof 7300 feet, whence they had a view of the Colorado below,shut up amongst rugged mountains. He is hardly nearenough to any canyon to be looking into it, and I surmisehe sees the river in Island Park, a brief interval betweenWhirlpool and Split-Mountain canyons. It was in UintaValley (which extends from Split Mountain to the Canyon The canyons of the Colorado may be divided into five general groups:(i) from Flaming Gorge to Uinta Valley; (2) Uinta Valley to GunnisonCrossing; (3) Gunnison Crossing to the mouth of the Paria (Pahreeah); (4)the Paria to the Grand Wash; and 5, all below that point.

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The Canyon of Lodore, Green River, Wyoming Fremont in 1844 passed just west of this canyon going north and at one point could look down into it. This canyon is twenty miles long and 2500 feet deep Photograph by E. O. Beaman Fort Davy Crockett 273 of Desolation), where the parallel of 40° 19 cuts the Green,that Escalante crossed in 1776 and travelled west as faras Utah Lake by very much the same route that Fremonthas just come over. The Escalante account says 41° 19,but that would be in Green River Valley, which is out of thequestion. There is a mistake of one degree. After a pleasant journey, on May 7th, through beautifullittle valleys and a high mountain country (east end of theUinta Mountains) they descended at evening through asteep and rocky ravine into Browns Hole, now BrownsPark, the name having been changed by Major Powell forthe sake of euphony, and because the Hole is a fine park-like valley, and not a hole in any sense. I once met a pioneerwho was much nettled at what he c

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5 January 2018 by Alan

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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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n thousand, four thousand of whomwere burnt to death. ?^ Portuguese Relation. 1541.] DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 165 nessee. This river in that place was half a league over, so that aman could not be distinguished from one side to the other ;it was very deep and very rapid, and being always full of thfrnS-^trees and timber that was carried down by the force of thestream, the water was thick and very muddy. It abounded withfish, most of which differed much from those that are taken in therivers of Spain. Boats were necessary to cross, and it took a monthto build them. A great cacique, Aquixo, was lord of the country on the other sideof the Mississippi, and in a day or two he approached to meet yj^j^ ^f ^j^^the strangers. He came with an imposing array of two hun- <^<=i<i^®-dred canoes, filled with armed men, a part of whom stood up to pro-tect the rowers with feathered shields, but all with their bodies andfaces painted, their heads adorned with plumes of many colors. The

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cacique and other chiefs were sheltered under awnings. The canoes were most neatly made and very large, and, with their pavilions, feathers, shields, and standards, looked like a fleet of galleys. They brought presents of fish and fruit and bread, and came, they said, to welcome and do homage to the strangers. But the strangers chose to beheve that they had a hostile purpose ; when they hesitated to land the Span- Fleet f the Cacique. 166 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. iards killed five or six of them for such a want of confidence, andothers who attempted to make a landing they fell upon as comingwith evil intent. When the boats were finished the army crossed without opposition.For a few days they kept along the west bank of the river, makingtheir way with difficulty through the forest and wet bottom lands, andharassed by constant attacks from the Indians. But they reached, erelong, a higher and dryer country, where they remained for more thana month, and where they

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23 December 2017 by Alan

Image from page 129 of “Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi” (1912)

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Title: Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: De Filippi, Filippo, 1869-1938 Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933
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f strong external influence in the past, despite a geo-graphical position so secluded, in a country so wild and inhospitablethat whole groups of villages are cut off from all communion with therest of the world during ten months of the year. The Balti race deservea high degree of esteem and goodwill. They are scrupidously honest,mild of manners, gentle and good-tempered, naturally amenable todiscipline, capable of the hardest labour, incredibly temperate, happywith very Uttle and invariably good-humoured. CHAPTER VII. THE INDUS VALLEY. Character. — (liological Chaos. — Stone-falls, Landslips. Dei)Osits and Erosions. — AlluvialCones. — Signs of Climatic Change. — The Tenipoiary Damming of the Valleys. — GreatHistorical Floods. — Oases. — Irrigation Canal.s. — The Skardii Route. — The Formationot the Caravan.—The Order of thr Marches. — Saddle-ponies. — Coolies. — The Escort. —Climate. — The Cam)). — Kashmiri Servants. —Camp Work. ConU and Kunsniiiah.

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IHE striking peculiarities of theDras valley had made a stioiigim])iession upon us. But not untilwe reached the Indus valley did werealize to the full the nature of thisland of desolation and sterility. Thegigantic scale of all the features does not grow upon one until after daysand days of sojourn in this strange scenery, because the perfect propor-tions of the valleys and their enclosing hilLs keep the traveller under anillusion as to their actual dimensions. V\)v Indus \;illey. 03 111 the Alps one has the impression that everything has been mouldedill a remote past, and reached once and for all a settled state. Theancient gashes and scars are cloaked with a mantle of verdure whichhides the great wounds and mutilations left by prehistoric landshdes.The rocks have been polished by the hand of time ; they are overgrownwith moss and hchens ; no ledge, no crevice, is without its plant life.A rock-fall here, a landslip there, seems to matter as little as grains ofsand that slide down the

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