Koko-nor, or KUKU-NOR, a lake of Tibet, near the frontier of the Chinese province of Kan-su, fills a depression surrounded by mountains, and lies, according to Prjevalsky, 12,097 feet above the level of the sea. Its very salt waters, exquisitely blue in colour, cover 66 miles by 40. It contains five islands, one with a Buddhist monastery.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 451
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