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Citation Information
TASH-KURGAN.
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considerable and flows in a delta of branches across its fan down to the Taghdumbash-dayya. T isnej is a large village said to consist of 2 00 clay huts within a wall of sun-dried bricks, and surrounded by fields.
Immediately to our right we have now one erosion terrace on the top of which the fortress and village of Task-kurgan are built, reminding one of the situation of the little Russian fort of Parnirskiy Post on the Murg-ab. The fortress is at a short distance from the village, and its walls rise perpendicularly from the level surface of the terrace. These walls of Tash -kurgan had been very much damaged, and nearly all the houses of the village were destroyed by the earthquake which took place July 5th to loth, and of which we experienced a shock at 8.10 a. m. on the 27th. All the inhabitants and the Chinese garrison were now living in tents outside of Tash-kurgan.
July 28th our road continued S. S. E. in the broad and open valley of Taghdumbash-darya. The distance was 32 km. and the rise 255 m., Yergol, our next camp, being situated at an altitude of 3,407 m.; the rate of ascent was 1: i 2 5. The Taghdumbasli valley S. S. E. of Tash -kurg-an is like a plain of the same kind as Tagharma. It consists of solid material and deposits brought down by the river and filling up the space between the mountains. The Tagharma is the result of the same kind of action carried out by the Kara-su. Both rivers, therefore, form alluvial plains before they break their way through the mountains.
crossing the Taghdumbash-dayya which here was divided into seven large and several small branches, carrying 5o or 6o cub. m. per second together. At this place the water was not clear. Between the branches there was excellent grazing-ground.
From Toglan-shalt our direction becomes S. S. E. To our right or on the
west we see the village of Khosg-un situated near the mouth of the Khosgun jilga, by which a road leads to a pass in the Sarikol Range that only can be crossed on foot. It is a short-cut road to Aktash on the upper Ak-su; the Khosgun road obviously enters the upper part of the Shinde jilga. The mountains from which the Khosgun valley comes are considerable and snow-covered.
Farther south we have to our left, or east, the transverse valley of Ograt
with a road to Ograt-davan in the Kashgar Range and, farther eastwards, to the villages of Kochkar and Tong and finally Yarkand. The pass is said to consist of two thresholds with a small lake or pool between. On our road is a village called Togolak-guntbes, surrounded with barley fields. A little farther south is Yergol with good grass. The river here flows in one bed. At the right or eastern side of the valley we passed several small jilgas. Sometimes the Kashgar Range grows into snowy groups, but glaciers are not seen. As a rule the vegetation is sparse,
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