Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 4): Meteorology of India: an analysis of the physical conditions of India, the Himálaya, western Tibet, and Turkistan (Leipzig, 1866)

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PBOFILES.

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The depressions surrounding and separating the different parts of the profile are
the following:

Indian plain, along the southern border of the Himalaya, 660 feet high.

Valley of the Indus, in Western Tibet, the principal separation between the chains
of the Himalaya and Karakoruin; height near Leh 10,723 feet.

Kwrakmh valley, a wide depression separating the chains of the Karakoriim and
the Kuenliien; height near the Nephrit (Yashem) quarries of Gulbagashen 12,252 feet.
This is not far above the bend of the river where it breaks through the chain of the
Kuenliien.

Plain of Turkistdn, near Yarkand about 4,200 feet.

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