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Citation Information
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE LAKES. 299
Ullugh-köl or the Big Lake.
Bajir-köl » » Bajir Lake.
Kum-köl » » Sand Lake.
Torpak-öldi » » Lake where the Calf Died.
Jallang-dschajir . . . » » Naked Lake.
Bajir-köl (No 2) . . » » Bajir Lake.
Gölme-käti (No 2) . . » » Lake of the Lost Net.
Tschapghan-köl . . . . » » Dug Lake.
Karaune-tokkan-köl . . » » Lake where the Karuna-bird Breeds.
Talaschti-köl » » Disputed Lake.
Boba-uktusu » » Old Man's Little Lake.
Baschtage-köl » » Upper Lake.
Laj-baskan-köl . » » Silt-filled Lake.
Begelik-köl » » Beks' Lake.
Kök-köl » » Blue Lake.
Baschtage-köl (No 2) » » Upper Lake.
Ettek-köl » » Western Lake.
Schikak-köl » » Lake where one Lies in wait (for Fish).
Ghodsche-tutghutsch-köl » » Lake where the Wild-Duck's Feathers are
Gathered.
Kotschkatschi-köl . . . » » Kotschkatsch's or the Swallow Lake. Baschtage-köl (No 3) * . » » Upper Lake.
From this it results, that there are no less than 35 lakes embedded in the sand along the right bank of the Tarim. In all probability they really number far more. In the following table I give the names and particulars of those which I either measured topographically, or else sounded, or both: —
If now I may from the materials at my disposal venture to draw any conclusions applicable to the lakes as a whole, I will do so by making a beginning with the column of areas in the table last given. This furnishes a mean area of 16 million square meters for each lake. Let us assume that each of the other twenty-nine lakes possesses the same area, and that their mean depth is 4.73i the average mean depth of the three lakes I did sound. This gives for all these twenty-nine
* I have omitted from this list the Ettek-bajir, or the Western Depression, and the Kaltschinibajiri, or Kaltscbin's Depression, because they are probably without water.
Length in kin.
Maximum
breadth in
m.
Minimum
breadth in
m.
Mean
breadth
in m.
Area in sq. meters.
Cubic con-
tents in
cub. m.
Name of Lake.
Max.
depth
in in.
Mean
depth
in m.
Basch-köl . . . Jangi-köl . . . Gölme-käti . . Karaunelik-köl Ullugh-köl . . Begelik-köl . .
15-9
13.35
8.0
5-2
7.35
11.6
2,000
I,5o8
2,500 2,000 3,200 4,150
21,000,000 15,000,000 13,794,000 5,850,000 14,860,000 30,000,000
32,818,500
69,519,600
I 10,000,000
1,000
965
1,000
300
1,345 1,244 1,662 I,I25
7.0
9.40
10.0
I I.o
5.6i
4.92
3.67
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