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Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bet and Nepal.Behind us to the north we have the flat, level land on thesouthern bank of the Tsangpo. We have mounted only315 feet from the river to the Kore-la, where the heightis 15,292 feet. And from the pass there is a headlongdescent to the Kali Gandak, an affluent of the Ganges.By means of a canal cut through the Kore-la the Brahma-putra might be turned into the Ganges. Northern Indianeeds water for irrigation, but the gain would perhaps besmall, for the Brahmaputra in Assam would be as muchdiminished as the Ganges was increased. Tibet wouldlose by the change, and a number of villages on the KaliGandak would be swept away. A new road would beopened for the invasion of India from the north, and there-fore on the whole it is perhaps best for all parties con-cerned to leave things as they are. But the changes hereindicated will some time come to pass without artificial aid,for the tentacles of the Kali Gandak are eating back north-wards into the mountains much more quickly than the
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A PEEP INTO NEPAL 79 Tsangpo is eroding its valley. Some time or other,perhaps in a hundred thousand years, the Ganges systemwill have extended its tentacles to the bank of the Tsano-po,and then will be formed a bifurcation which, in the courseof time, will bring about a total revolution in the proportionsof the two rivers and their drainage areas. Now we are in Nepal and go on foot down thedeclivities. Here little has been done to improve theroad. Occasionally an awkward block of granite has beenrolled away, leaving a gap in the breastwork ; in otherrespects the caravan traffic has done most for the road,wearing it down. It is easy and pleasant to go downsouthwards towards denser air ; it becomes warmer, andwe breathe more easily ; the verdure increases, and flowersof different colours make the grass gay. We try toforget that we must toil up all these slopes again ; let usgo down, down, to enjoy a summer life, if only for twenty-four hours, and forget dreary Tibet. An hour ago the wi

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