On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c23.s19.8

v2.c23.s19.8

The term rendered in the above passage by "hilly sand-heaps" is *shan-chi* (山積) literally, "hill stone-heaps", but *chi* is here, as in many other passages, to be taken in the sense of "sand-accumulation". According to our pilgrim hills covered with sand and waste plains were the features of the country between Osh and Kashgar, and Mr. Sven Hedin describes the country on the east side of Yangihissar as "ranges of low hills of sand, clay, and conglomerate".²