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IMG:p21_5.png:Chinese characters Ho-lan shan the mountains in Kansu, west of the Ordos, and running north and south for one hundred and fifty miles, parallel with the northern course of the Yellow River. They reach 10,000 or 11,000 feet in height, and are a wilderne of igneous rocks, but above 7,500, feet there are forests. Prejevalsky spent some time in these mountains, hunting the Burhel. West and north-west of these mountains lies the portion of the Gobi Desert sometimes called Little Gobi, sometimes the Alashan Desert.