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0512 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 512 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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[Photo] Fig. 336. THE OLD RIVER-BED TO THE NORTH OF THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA.
[Figure] Fig. 337. PLAN OF A SQUARE HUT.
[Figure] Fig. 338. FIELD OF THICK KAMISCH ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA.

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386   THE TSCHERTSCHEN DESERT.

some dead, some living. To the north sand predominates. The bottom of the river consists chiefly of sand, rising in some places into small dunes, and there are a few mounds actually in the middle of the bed itself. On the right bank we came across traces of a village, namely two square huts, built of faggots and branches and kamisch, projecting about one meter above the sand-smothered soil. The name given to huts of this description is gerer. There was also surviving the lower part of a wooden

Fig. 336. THE OLD RIVER-BED TO THE NORTH OF

THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA.   trodden appearance of the droppings of

house. To judge from the hard and

live stock in the vicinity, these huts had been inhabited by shepherds, and could not very well be of any great age, any more than the Tschong-schipang bed could. For if the river were very old, it would have been already filled with sand-dunes. Immediately below this point the old

river-bed divides. The right arm, which returns directly to the river, is called the Kalta-schipang; the other, the principal branch, continues towards the east-north-east. In this we discovered the remains of a double dam, constructed of beams, piles, faggots, and clay, which seemed to have been made for the purpose of forcing the river to

Fig. 337. PLAN OF the right. Upon reaching Mätschit (ruins of a mosque) we were A SQUARE HUT. again quite close to the Tschertschen-darja, the old bed being only separated from it by a strip of tamarisk-mounds and bush forest; but they soon diverge again for a space. The last portion of the old bed is indistinct, becoming lost amongst the sand and vegetation, but at Su-ösgen it once more reunites with

Fig. 333. FIELD OF THICK KAMISCH ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA.

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