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0596 Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.1
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[Figure] Fig. 409. THE JANGI-TARIM WINDING THROUGH THE DESERT MÄRDÄK-SCHAHR TO SADAK-KÖL.
[Figure] Fig. 410. The branch feeding the Märdäk-lakes; April 23d.

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468   THE TARIM DELTA.

trated a winding channel, with a lively current, which expands sometimes into small basins (4.15i 2.12, and 4.30 m. deep), and finally bends to the south-west, winding its way through a labyrinth of tamarisk-mounds. This channel, after leaving the older watercourse, the Kona-akin, on the left, divides into two branches. Of these the one on the right goes to a recently formed, but rather small, lake called Tschong-köl; that on the left, the one we proceeded along, flows past the circular wall of Märdäk-schahr, still occupying for the most part the position it did before, that is to say a tongue of land almost entirely surrounded by waterways.

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A couple of years ago a Chinaman, with two Lopliks to help him, spent some time digging for »treasure» here, but found none. From that point the channel goes east, and finally south-east, winding in big curves amongst the tamarisks and dunes to its embouchure, already described, in the Sadak-köl. The name this stream bears there is Jangi-tarim, or the New River, and the greatest depth we sounded in it amounted to 3.60 and 3.65 m. On the right we noted a group of 6 toghraks, 4o to 5o years old, called for that reason Kök-toghrak, or the Green (i. e. fresh or living) Poplars. From the top of a tamarisk-mound in the vicinity we were able to see, as on a map, how the stream winds away amongst the dunes. But there does not appear to be any channel proceeding towards the east.

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