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How mes hed changed. The feet Tsangshan range which flanks the Tall lake, or Erhal, (on account of it having the shape of an ear) and between which the old city of Tati fg situated. At 9.10 am. we crosses! over the Yangtze at 16,000 feet, riband of blue hurrying across. the Yunnan plateau in Its arid red gorge.
Directly to the west, and south of the Likiang snow range. extending from north to south, and about 160, miles distant we saw the Mekong-Salwin, and Salwin-Irrawadi divides, the larier In the south the Yunnas Burma border, and the former in the north the Yunnan-Tibet divide, with Lhasa its capital 600 miles or about four fying hours distant, The ranges were snow covered and only a few peaks of pyramidal shape rose the otherwise oven mountain fan average altitude of 15,000 to 10,000 feet.
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