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0651 Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia, 1899-1902 : vol.2
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[Figure] Fig. 238. THE FERRY OF TURFAN-KARAUL. IN THE BACKGROUND YHE KONTSCHE-DARJA. TO THE RIGHT THE STATION-HOUSE, 27 MARCH 1896.
[Figure] Fig. 239. THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA AT-ILEK.

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GENERAL IIYDROGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF Tl-IE TARIM-BASIN.   519

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Fig. 238. THE FERRY OF TURFAN-KARAUL. IN THE BACKGROUND THE KONTSCHE-DARJA. TO THE RIGHT THE STATION-HOUSE, 27 MARCH 1896.

quantities of water. I also ventured to suggest (p. 1o), that when all that ice melts in the spring, it must give rise to a considerable flood, in the same way as the breaking up of the ice does in the Tarim. And that this suggestion is sound is proved by a measurement which I made in the Kontsche-darja not far above Tikenlik, and about 7o km. below Dilpar, on 2 7th March 1896, when I found the volume to be 69.6 cub.m. in the second, or reckoning from Korla a diminution of only 2 cub.m.; at the time I attributed (Peterna. Mitteil., Ergänzhft 131, p. 77) that insignificant decrease to the thawing of the ice, which thus took place about the middle of March. Now this imposing flood of thaw-water flows past at a pretty swift rate, and once its maximum has been attained, the river goes on falling all the summer. In the beginning of May i900 I measured a volume of only 33 cub.m. in this river, namely 19 cub.m. in all the several arms together which in the vicinity of Tikenlik go to feed the Kuntschekisch-tarim, and 14 cub.m. proceeding from the Bos-ilek to the Avullu-köl. Thus the volume in the beginning of May was

Fig. 239. THE TSCHERTSCHEN-DARJA AT AK-ILEK.

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