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Citation Information
218 OVERLAND TO INDIA
CHAP.
is undeniably interesting, as a matter of curiosity, to know j
that the village of Yunsi has the same name as the prophet 01
Jonah, and that he, according to the local tradition, was 01
here cast up on shore by the whale ; that the panels of the 4
doors of the Jandak fort are said to have been made from
the wreckage of a vessel which navigated the Kevir Sea ;
and that Husseinan, with several other places on the
margin of the Kevir, are supposed to have been harbour /
towns. But these legends have no scientific value, and no
conclusions can be drawn from them. Probably they have g
sprung up solely owing to the indisputable resemblance of
the Kevir basin to an enclosed sea. In this connection I
may again mention that the Persians almost always denote 1
the kevir border, that is, the boundary between firm ground
of gravel or sand and the treacherous kevir, by the term
leb-i-kevir.
It would be very useful if we had more detailed
information about Vaughan's shells. But, granted that
they really indicate the position of the former Kevir lake,
we know that they were found at a height of 10o to 200 1
feet. The average height of the Kevir margin, according
to four observations taken by myself and calculated out by I
Dr. Nils Ekholm, all from the southern edge of the Kevir, r.
is 2411 feet. The lowest point I measured in the interior
of the Kevir had an absolute height of 2 247 feet. The
difference of height from the edge to the lowest point is, i
then, 164 feet, and if now we take the mean of Vaughan's
100 to 200 feet we get 150 feet, or about the same. When
the inland sea reached up to the point where he found
the shells, it must have had a maximum depth of about
300 feet.
Of the vertical section of the Persian basins Blanford
says : " The margins of the plains usually consist of a long
slope composed of gravel and boulders, and with a surface
inclination of I° to 3°. Such slopes often extend to a
distance of from 5 to Io miles from the base of the hills
bounding the plain, the difference in level between the top
and bottom of the incline being frequently 2000 feet or
even more." Here then Blanford allows a fall of the
detritus fan of 2000 feet for io miles at most. He might
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