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| Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.1 |
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| THE BRIDGE AT JAJLAK. |
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4 THE TARIM RIVER. •
and gardens which stood beside it. After a while however the ground became drier, showing that the squall, which carne from the north-west, had followed a well-defined course, and . had not proceeded very far to the south-east; and the night which ensued was perfectly fine. Passing by the big kischlak or winter settlement of Natschuk, we encamped at the village of Musulman-natschuk, also known as Kaltanatschuk (Short Natschuk), a place of some 2 5o households.
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Fig. 2. THE BRIDGE AT JAJLAK.
During the whole of the following day both the Tien-schan and the Pamirs stood out with unusual clearness and precision. Owing to the recent rain, the atmosphere was remarkably pure and free from dust, so that the steel-blue flanks of the mountains, and their snow-white crests, wreathed in light fleecy clouds, came out with telling effect. Upon reaching Tschige-tugh, we struck an old river-bed, the course of which was defined with the utmost distinctness. The water it contained, coming direct from Jangi-schahr, was stationary, and consequently quite clear. This old river-bed was called the Kona-darja or Kona jaman jar. The road crossed it at the village of Bogha-achun-lengeri, where it was also spanned by an elevated arik (irrigation canal), likewise fed by the Kisil-su. The road here was splendid, hard and dry, and led through an avenue of willows (suget) and poplars (toghrak), bordered on both sides by canals, which kept the vegetation fresh. The country hereabouts was very well cultivated, though not at all thickly inhabited.
On our left we next had the principal channel of the Kona-darja, and on our right a branch of the same. The latter, which in the district of Jajlak was known as the Kelvetschuk-darja, goes as far as Fajs-abad; and as its water is derived from the Kisil-su, it was extremely muddy, and flowed at the bottom of a trench 31/2 meters below the level of the adjacent country. Its sharp-cut banks were
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