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EAST ASIA.
Parallel with the Tsing-ling other ranges run north of the Wei-ho valley in
the peninsula formed by the two great bends of the Hoang-ho. But they a
intersected by other ridges running south-west and north-east, and forming with
them numerous valleys radiating in every direction. Some of the breaks occurring
at the points
of intersection afford important passes between the upper and
courses of the Hoang-ho. Between the King-ho
Fig. 85. TERKACE LANDS or SHANSI.
Scale 1 : 5,400,000.
and Wei-ho a mountam mass,
120 Miles.
formerly known as the Yo, was long regarded as one of the bulwarks of the
empire. North-east of Lanchew some of the peaks take the name of Siwe-shan,
or " Snowy Mounts," but the ranges rising to the north of the Wei-ho valley are
generally of moderate elevation. The ranges skirting the south side of the Ordos
steppe are continued east of the IIoan~g-ho through Shansi. Here the " Western
Mountains," from which the province of Shansi takes its name, run uniformly in a