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Show VANDgrllNQ'LArl IN ASIA. Thero art Sfvoral "Jlontltlg" is'niul? "i i...tenec ell known to pcientih , 10 only "wnndarlnjr" lnko ever heard o is Lake Nor, in the Gobi desert, in Asia, which phenomenon phe-nomenon was recently accounted or l the fact that tho Tnrim rivor, on-tering on-tering tho lake from tho west, brings down during the period of high water lafe in summer a great quantity quan-tity of silt, which hns the effect of driving the lake, lying on the lovol floor of the doaort, toward (lit southeast. south-east. But the summer wind, drifting drift-ing the surface fond and darkening the heavens with dust, blows gan-erully gan-erully from tho northeast, nntl it, too, lends to drive tho lake heforo 11. The combined effect of the urging by the wind and the rivor is to force (he lake southward. |