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0017 Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.1
1899-1902年の中央アジア旅行における科学的成果 : vol.1
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[Photo] Fig. 3 カシュガルの街路STREET IN KASCHGAR.

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doi: 10.20676/00000216
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FROM KASCHGAR TO THE JARKENT-DARJA.

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in places steep, but in others shelved gradually down to the water, and were overgrown with meadow-grasses. The volume in this side-arm amounted to about r 2 cubic metres in the second. At the little bazaar of Jajlak our road crossed the stream, there called also the Fajs-abad-darjasi, by a handsome, well-made bridge of a single span. It is constructed of stout beams stretching from bank to bank, with planks laid transversely across them, and is provided with a parapet on each side — one of the most serviceable bridges I have seen in East Turkestan. At the bridge the stream measured I i m. in breadth, and had a mean depth of I m. and a velocity of at least r m. in the second.

Fig. 3. STREET IN• KASCHGAR.

We now had on our left the Fajs-abad-darjasi and on our right the Kisil-bojedarja, which also derives its water from the large deltaic arm on which Jangi-schahr stands. In this way the country is traversed and watered by a system of radiating deltaic arms or canals, all pointing, like fingers or tentacles, towards the east. For a correct understanding of this complicated irrigation system, it is not sufficient to cross over the several arms, but one must follow them first up and then down,