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Citation Information
386 AN ANTIQUE RUBBISH HEAP
[CHAP. xXV.
question lay nearly two miles to the north, I decided to move my
camp there.
While my effecting the of the little first sight it 7 feet high
RUINED STUPA, AT ANCIENT SITE BEYOND IMAM JAFAR SADIK.
and 6 feet 6 inches high. But observations as to the original ground level made me suspect that the structure now visible above the sand on the southern slope of a large tamarisk-covered sand-cone did not represent the whole of the Stupa. And in fact, on clearing the sand heaped up on the east face by the prevailing winds, I came upon a second base below. It was also square, projecting on each side 3 feet beyond the upper base and 6 feet high. The whole of
men were busy on the morning of February 6th shift, I found time to make a close examination
Stupa below which my camp had stood. At appeared that the small hemispherical dome about rose on a single base 13 feet 6 inches square
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