IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Overland to India : vol.2 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.2 |
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228 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP.
the life and soul of Seistan, has changed its position innumerable times. Under such circumstances, whole towns and villages must be abandoned and new ones 01 erected beside the new water channels. Where empty 00 walls remain in the dry deserts of Seistan one is often `ig deceived as to their age. They are scraped and worn Poi away by the exceedingly strong north-north-west wind, and therefore look older than they are. In a comparatively ;II short time they are razed altogether.
As there are such evident and sufficient reasons for the existence of ruins in Seistan, it is superfluous to try to account for their presence by a deterioration of climate
within historic times. The soil is not less fruitful than t
before, and, whether the volume of water in the Hilmend increases or diminishes, it is always so enormous that it ~! could provide for the maintenance of millions of human beings. M `Mahon estimates the population of Seistan at ~! 205,000 ; it has a more abundant supply of water than any Ili other part of Persia of the same extent. According to
M `Mahon the Hilmend carries down at the season of low ill
water 2000 cubic feet a second, and at high water 50,000 to at
70,000 feet a second. He believes that Seistan might, under tti
a good and wise government, become a second Egypt.1 a
That historical data cannot always be accepted without :z
criticism is shown by the following statement of the famous 1l
Chardin, who dwelt for several years in Ispahan in the Q;
seventeenth century. Of the Sende-rud he says : " Ce fleuve it
se jette sous la terre entre Ispahan et la ville de Kirman, oû it reparoît et d'où it va se rendre dans la Mer des I ndes." 2
And yet this fanciful tale shows that the climate of Ispahan 25o years ago was similar to the present. If the Gavkhaneh had then been a large lake, no Persian would have thought of imposing on Chardin with the story that the river disappeared underground. It was lost, as now, in a - temporary salt lake.
When the Arab geographers mention that in the tenth II
century a road ran straight through the Desht-i-Lut from I
Deh-i-salm to Barn, which now, as far as I could ascertain,
1 Geogr. Journal, vol. xxviii. (1906), p. 209. 2 Voyages en Perse, vol. iii. p. 4.
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