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Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
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its course with branches of the Tārīm below Tikenlik,¹² so the river, in that earlier period when
it extended towards Lou-lan along the line marked by the present Kuruk-daryā, may well have
been joined higher up by beds passing towards it from the Yārkand river and from the latter's
important northern affluent, the Inchike-daryā or river of Shahyār. There are even now indica-
tions of such interlacing between these river systems in the area marked in the north by Chong-köl
(Map No. 25. A. 2) and by Yangi-köl on the Yārkand-daryā (Map No. 25. B. 3).¹³ If the Konche-
daryā above Ying-p'an received such a contribution from the Inchike–Yārkand-daryā system it
would be still easier to account for the great extent of the ground covered by its ancient delta
about Lou-lan.
Likelihood The other consideration, which distinctly favours the view just indicated, is supplied by
of ancient
connexion Li Tao-yüan's account itself. Schematic as the Chinese description reproduced by him of the
with Tārīm. hydrography of the Tārīm basin evidently is, it would scarcely have been possible for it to treat
the river-course extending to Lou-lan along the line marked by the Kuruk-daryā as forming part
of the 'River of the North',¹⁴ i. e. the united rivers of Kāshgar and Yārkand, if its waters had been
solely derived from the Konche-daryā ; for this has quite a distinct origin and comes from the
opposite end of the Tārīm basin. If, however, the Konche-daryā, while it followed the straight
continuation of its bed leading in the direction of Lou-lan, also received a contribution to its volume
from the side of the drainage that is now wholly gathered into the terminal Tārīm, the generaliza-
tion underlying the Chinese description of the river system becomes quite intelligible. It would
be impossible now, after so many centuries of riverine changes, to determine where was situated this
connexion between the Konche-daryā and the wholly distinct river system represented by the lower
Yārkand-daryā and its tributary from the direction of Shahyār and Kuchā. Nor would even conjec-
tures on the point be justified so long as we have no exact survey of the whole of this Mesopotamia.
An attempt to trace the probable course or courses of the Konche-daryā above Ying-p'an
during the early historical period when its water flowed in the Kuruk-daryā bed towards Lou-lan
is, naturally, not open to the same objection. Before, however, considering what light our actual
survey of the region may throw on the question, I must recur to a particular point raised by Li Tao-
yüan's above-quoted account which has a direct antiquarian bearing. I mean the reference to the
'town of Chu-pin' south of which the 'River of the North' is said to pass, after flowing past the
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