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0146 Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.1
Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.1 / Page 146 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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[Figure] Fig. 90. Intschkä, November 4.

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96   THE TARIM RIVER.

The right bank is known first as Teschme-kötäk, and then as Intschkä. The country which lies between these places and Tschimen was reported to be inhabited by 3o to 4o shepherds and their families. In fact, the region around Schah-jar and Tschimen is the most famous centre for the sheep industry throughout the whole of the Tarim basin, and without it the bazar of Schah-jar would be perfectly empty. It is 36 km. from Intschkä to the great desert, which is skirted immediately on the north by the Atschik-darja. Here tigers are occasionally seen. In this part the ice was expected to begin in about thirty days; and the river is said to freeze at Tschimen five days earlier than at Chotan-kemisi, and two days earlier than at Intschkä. The rate at which the ice-formation advances up-stream is stated to equal the rate at which the current flows down-stream, an assertion which certainly does not always hold good. The ice lies, it is said, 2/3 m. higher than the then existing level of the stream, and remains three months.

At Intschkä the breadth was 70 m., the mean depth 1.176 m., the mean velocity 0.8932 m., and the volume 7 3.51 cub. m., in the second, or very little less than

on 3oth October.   .

Fig. 90. 0.18   O 26   0.39   0.19   0.69   1.06   I.x8   I.3o   I.5o   2.0o   I.85   2.64   3.22 = depth.

. o I 3   I 59 74 85 I20 98 156 130 138 mil

63   73   118 102 128 144 103 102 velocity.
Ioo 82 io8 124 97 67~

Breadth = 70.o m. Intschkä, November 4. Scale 1: 5oo.

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