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500 yards long. They are fed by the melting of the 
snows around, and their waters, clear as crystal, are the 
source of the Chichekli-su, a little brook which runs down 
into the glen of Shindeh, and so on to Pasrabat and the 
Yarkand-daria. The name Chichekli is likewise given to 
the low saddle wTich serves as the watershed between the 
glen of Tar-bashi and the glen of Chichekli. 
From the cauldron-shaped portion of the glen the track 
swung up a relatively easy slope to the pass (15,065 feet) 
of Kityick-kok-moynak (the Little Green Pass). A little 
further on was another pass, the Katta-kok-moynak (the 
Big Green Pass), equally easy, although it attained 
15,540 feet in altitude. Between the two a small fan- 
shaped valley gathered up a number of mountain-rills, 
and out of them formed an affluent to the Chichekli-su. 
Both passes were on the top of low rounded domes, 
where, except for a few scattered patches of gneiss, the 
bare rock was not visible, being effectually covered with 
humus. 
