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huang marches from the T'ien-shan grazing grounds above Kara-shahr. His discovery of a
relation here more than seven hundred miles away in a straight line from their former common
haunts illustrates the huge distances over which Mongols are prepared to move in search of grazing
or for other purposes. I was eager later on to secure the guidance of this much-travelled Mongol
for the autumn's journey across the Pei-shan, but unfortunately did not succeed.
Tower A farther march of two miles by the caravan track across the bare gravel Sai brought us to the
T. XLVIII. f. last watch-tower that we were to meet along the left bank of the Etsin-gol above the river's delta.
This tower, T. XLVIII. f, stood on a low ridge commanding a distant view of the riverine plain and
of the utterly bare glacis that stretches down towards it both from the Pei-shan hills to the north-
west and from the desert plateaus to the east and south-east. The tower was of exactly the same
shape and size as T. XLVIII. b, measuring originally 20 feet square at the base and tapering some-
what towards the top, which was about 22 feet above the ground. But it was built of solid bricks,
measuring 14″ × 8″ × 5″, just like the other ancient watch-tower, T. XLVIII. a, on the extreme northern
stretch of the Mao-mei Limes. A thin revetment of stamped clay which had been added later,
apparently with a view to enlarging the space on the top, had for the most part fallen off again.
Advanced The forts of Ta-wan were fully visible from this tower T. XLVIII. f, which, as its construction
look-out proves, belonged to the Mao-mei Limes. There can therefore be little doubt that it served as an
post. advanced look-out post for that Limes, like the towers T. I and T. II which we found guarding the
Lop desert route where it approaches the western extremity of the Tun-huang Limes.⁴ Neither
refuse nor pottery debris was found near it. It deserves to be noted that on the opposite side of the
river, and at a distance of about three miles from the tower T. XLVIII. f, there stands facing it the
small but very massive fort known as Ulan-dürüljin, which in view of its similarity to T. XLVIII. c
in point of size and construction may also belong to Han times.⁵
The remainder of that day's march took us across a wide and bare plain of gravel to the halting-
place of Ulan-else, a narrow patch of vegetation and wild poplars by the left bank of the winding
river. No structural remains of any kind were seen on these sixteen miles, though the ground was
perfectly open and the atmosphere quite clear, a storm on the preceding evening having brought
some light rain. We had entered ground which, though on an old line of traffic towards the heart
of Mongolia, could never have seen settled Chinese life. And here the chapters dealing with our
search for the ancient border line by which that life was to be protected may appropriately be
brought to a close.
Section III.—LIST OF ANTIQUES FROM RUINS OF HAN LIMES
OBJECTS FOUND OR EXCAVATED IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES ALONG LIMES
T. 01. Lug of wooden bowl, similar to T. XLIII. k. 026,
but slightly smaller. Similar ornament, with addition
inside rim of two thin black lines, with yellow line below,
and between black lines groups of transverse lines, dots,
&c., as ornament. 4½″ × 1¼″. Pl. XLVII.
T. 02. Iron centre-bit, with three-pointed end and
thickened shank. Used for making circle and dot ornament
frequent on bone, ivory and wooden objects of Asiatic,
Roman, Greek, &c., origin. Diam. of circle made by tool
3⁄16″, full; 5¼″ × 5⁄16″ at broadest part. Pl. XLII.
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