lan, men bildar ingen slutsjö. Nordost om Abdal .ligger däremot Lop-nor kvar liksom förr på Prschevalskijs tid.
I sin bok "On Ancient Central Asian Tracks", London 1933, säger Stein, efter att ha berättat att han 1915 kunde gräva fram salthaltigt vatten i grunda brunnar i några djupa ställen av Kuruk-daria:
"Hence I could not feel altogether surprised when I learned on my fourth journey in the Tarim basin (193o-31) that a recent great hydrographie change affecting the course of the Tarim had caused the greater portion of its summer floods to meet the Konche-darya much farther north than before and thus to deflect the united waters of both once more into the 'Dry River' and towards the area of ancient Lou-lan. The hoped for chance of studying this latest change affecting the Lop basin has, I regret, been denied to me through Chinese obstruction."
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