Show AN unexplored COUNTRY vo so traveler ever succeeded in choing ats it loons frontier vio from m the boston transcript the immense territory of Is almost completely surrounded by mountain ranges of appalling magnitude which especially along the southern western and northern athern frontiers constitute formidable barriers against ingress from the plateau in the extreme west the worlds backbone radiate the great natural ramparts which shut out india on the one hand and the tartar countries of and turk estan n on the other no asiatic or western conqueror has ever dared to penetrate this mountain world and even genghis kahn the scourge of asia whose ravages extended from pekin in the east to moscow in the west was obliged when invading northern india to take the circuitous route via kash ghar and afghanistan instead of crossing crossin in g th thabet I 1 be t secure on their lofty plateau ind and practically isolated from the res rest t of the world the people of have remained undisturbed for ages and have developed characteristics for which we would vainly search in any race of the globe the chinese conquest u has not produced ced the slightest change in their mode of life or exercised any appreciable influence upon their peculiar culture |