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remains of the wall could be traced over the space, about ten miles in direct distance, which extends
from the tower T. xxii. c, near the outflow of the Khara-nōr, to the vicinity of the station T. xxiii. b.
The Khara-nōr, as seen in Map No. 38. A. 4, attains here its greatest width, and in March, 1914,
was an open sheet of water, over two miles wide in most places and fringed by a marshy belt on
the south. It must have offered adequate protection against attack almost throughout the year ;
for it may be doubted whether the Khara-nōr, on account of the salinity of the water left in it
after the spring and summer flood has passed, is ever covered with solid ice for very long.
But about the middle of this stretch of lake shore there projects a small peninsula of higher Position
ground marked by numerous erosion terraces, obviously a continuation of the narrow tongue-like of watch-
plateau which projects from the south towards Ta-ch'ūan.⁷ This projecting portion of the shore towers
considerably reduces the width of the lake-bed to the north where there is deeper water. At the T. xxii. d-f.
same time it affords positions of commanding height from which to watch the stretch of deep water
as well as the shallow marshy bays on either side. It is, no doubt, for this topographical reason
that we find this higher part of the lake shore occupied by three watch-stations, T. xxii. d–f, dis-
tributed over a distance of about two miles. The photograph, Fig. 197, taken from T. xxii. d,
illustrates the character of the ground which they were intended to guard.
The tower T. xxii. d (Fig. 199) stands on an eroded clay ridge rising steeply to about 80 feet Clearing of
above the marshy bay to the west and stretching for about 300 yards from ENE. to WSW. The watch-post
tower was 16 feet square, as shown by the plan of the station (Pl. 13), and stood in its ruined T. xxii. d.
condition to a height of about 9 feet. The sun-dried bricks of which it was built measured 14 by
7½ inches with a thickness of 4 inches, and thus conformed to the size prevalent in the structures
of the Tun-huang Limes.⁸ Thin layers of reed-straw were inserted between every four courses
of bricks. Adjoining it to the west and south-west, I could just trace the badly decayed walls of
three rooms which, no doubt, had served as quarters. One of these, ii, had along its northern side
a passage, only 2½ feet wide, the floor of which was covered with ashes. It appears likely that
this narrow passage may have served, like the k'ang of modern Chinese dwellings, as a stove to
heat the adjoining room.⁹
From the mass of refuse which covered the ground immediately to the south-west of the little Finds at
station, there were recovered a dozen Chinese records on wooden slips, most of them fragmentary, T. xxii. d.
as well as the small miscellaneous relics of wood and fabrics described in the List below (Chap. XII,
sec. iii). Among the former may be mentioned the lug of a wooden bowl, lacquered red, T. xxii.
d. 02 ; the wooden comb, T. xxii. d. 04, and two wooden spatulas, T. xxii. d. 05–6 (Pl. XLVII).
The fragments of fabrics are mainly plain silk in different colours, but comprise also pieces of
woollen fabric, T. xxii. d. 08–9, and a coarse textile which seems to be cotton, T. xxii. d. i. 01,
a very rare material on the Limes. A much-clipped Wu-chu coin was also found here.
[Of the documents found here T. xxii. d. 015 offers special interest. It bears a date corre- Chinese
sponding to December 16th, A. D. 47, and appears to be a kind of tally (ch'ūan) signed conjointly records from
by the 'signal post commandants' of Tsung-min 宗民 and Shou-kuan 受官.¹⁰ The former T. xxii. d.
designates himself as belonging to P'o-hu 破 胡, a subdivision or 'barrier' of the Limes of which
the 'western section' is mentioned also in T. xxviii. 36, No. 621 of M. Chavannes' Documents. It
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