CHINA River Amoor and King-Gan Kinggan Mountains

Description: River Amoor and King-Gan (Kinggan) Mountains (China) Another Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1858 Publisher: William Collins Sons & Co. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair) Overall light age toning of paper. Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 inches (21 x 29 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 1 inch = 2,54 cm. Narrative: A commissary had been sent out to vain and empty dreams, when I was about to face the meet me from Sagalin-Ula, and had been some time formidable rocky defiles of the King-Gan. waiting at the first village. He told me that he had These defiles, at the bottom of which flows the Amoor, orders to accompany my lordship as far as to the river, extend over a district 150 versts in length, where all is and that he felt himselfmuch honoured by the mission. snow and bad roads. To overcome these difiiculties The dispositions of the Mantchus towards us remained would tax all my courage, and all my patience. the same, but their tactics had very much changed. We had nothing to guide us across the deep quag- Not having been able to prevent our penetrating to mires and bogs, save the uncertain tracks of sportsmen, the heart of their country, they seemed anxious that I which were most diflicult to discern. The Leaou originates in a number of feeders which come down the ravines and valleys of the King-gan mountains and finally unite as the stream called by both Chinese and Mongols, the Yellow River (Hwang-ho Sira Muren). Under this name, the river flows in a north-easterly direction till it skirts the southern edge of the of the waterless middle tract of Eastern Mongolia. It then flows to the south-east till it is joined by the Hersu about fifteen miles to the north of the " palisade " boundary line, when the water.- of the two take the name of the Leaou. In several Chinese maps, these two are, however, before their junction, respectively named the Western and Eastern Leaou. A glance at the map would lead one to suppose that the Sira Muren would contribute to the Leaou five or six times the volume of water contributed by the eastern feeder, the Hersu; but so far as I could judge, it does not contribute more than three times the volume. I attribute this to two causes; first, that the Long White Mountains, lying nearer to the Pacific, precipitate more rain than the Kinggan range; and secondly, that the Sira Muren, in passing through some 150 miles of a comparatively arid tract, in which it receives no affluents, loses considerably from absorption. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. eBay seller since 1998. Five-star service.

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