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Citation Information
C. G. MANNERHEIM
leads into the town by a gate that faces N. The wall is about 3 I /2 fathoms high without a moat or protected external area and, except for the gateway and the crenellated parapet, is built of unbaked bricks. At the four corners there are small projections crowned with minor clay pavilions and in the middle of the wall in each direction there are similar ones, also of negligible size. The main street runs from the N gate to the middle of the S wall. The actual square of the fortress is in a SSW—NNE direction. The space inside the wall is densely covered with small mud houses, with an occasional single house here and there. To the S an uneven unpopulated area.
The road was good to-day, but the snow was o.3 m deep and it was hard work for the arbahs to get through the considerable snowdrifts that had formed in some places. The town population was apparently busy carting the snow on to the road in large baskets placed on arbahs. The name by which the town is designated in Russian maps does not correspond at all satisfactorily to the Chinese Yumen hsien. The district contains the following villages:
From the town:
270 houses To the NE: Khuakheiza
(about too hou) ..
On the E bank of the San-tao-Kow river:
Ehrdago, about 15 1i SE—NW Thence to the SE approx. pa-
rallel to the road Sandogo-
Yumen:
Kuandsjuangza 33 houses
Liangzago 34 »
Nanjangsjyng 31 »
Tchuanpeitching 40 »
Hsia Tunkhunkho 30 »
Hsia Sikhunkho 34 '>
Thence to the E:
ya Wan 37 »
From the town about 50 li to
the N: Huantsa van
To the S in the mountains:
Tchangma (6o hou)
30 li in length.
To the W:
Hsi ta tschy
To the E:
Tschung tschy
To the SE on the road t
Tchi tchinsia
Thence to the SSE:
Tchi tchin pu (40 li in circumference) and . Shangtshyting in the SE .
30o houses over Io,000 sheep, 500 oxen, 40o horses. 43 houses
6o »
o Suchow:
36
340 » yearly
over 10,000 tons ofgrain
I0-I2 houses
17 »
4 »
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17 »
| 70 » 6o » | Further along the road: Tchitchinhu Joutchyenza Hoshaogo Thence to li to the N: Shenma tcheng Khuikhuipu )420( |
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