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CHINESE TURKISTAN AND KANSU
FROM SURVEYS MADE DURING THE EXPLORATIONS OF
SIR AUREL STEIN, K.C.I.E.,
1900-01, 1906-08, 1913-15.

EXPLANATION OF SINO TIBETI AND CHINESE TERMS

Bulak Spring Pai Kū Lake Pao-tou, Pa-tou Walled village
Chāo All-about Kum Sand Pu [?] Depot of stores or ground
Dāvā Pass Kurouk Ruined Shao-Chia Boundary
Dāvan Pass Küpüm Ruin Ta-tao Chia Pass
Gong Well Kust-bazar Dust-bazaar Tāgh Mountain
Ha (Chin.) River Mazar, M. Saint's tomb Tārim Region
Jilga, J. Valley Miao Temple Yūlung Grazing
Kaoul Maize station Ogün Steppan (Sistan Tarim, Tarogh) Grazing ground

[Streams with vertical pencil colours are not shown in blue]

Scale 1 : 253,333 or 7·9374 Inches to 4 Miles

Published under the direction of Colonel Sir S.G. Burrard, A.C.S.I., K.E., F.R.S., Surveyor General of India,
1916.
Issued to attending troops:

Spring Well Karez
Main road
Other roads and paths with steps
Trackless line
Traction, Mohammedan shrine, Sacred tomb
Path, probable, Desert, Mine
Temporarily deserted hut
Elevation over 4000ft. (approx.)
Ancient ruins (Stupa), ruined, Ruined Stūpas (Stūpa) [?] at
Ancient site (Kizil-Green, Cairn)
House rock camp, 1900-01
House and camp, 1906-08
House and camp, 1913-15
Camps of Sir A. Stein on his Third Khotan in 1913-15 [?]
Camps of Sir A. Stein and Afraz Gul in 1913-15
Camps of R. B. Lal Singh in 1913-15

Latitude 38°, Longitude 80°, Triangulation Stn. N
Heights, by theodolite, by clinometer 2327 3300V
Heights, by barometer or hypsometer 1470
Contour interval (approximate)
Drill-sand lines
Erosion terraces, Moru, Yardang
Hard salt crust
Hard salt encrusted clay
Soft salt-encrusted clay
Cultivation unsurveyed
Edges of cultivation, etc., where surveyed
Reeds of low shrub, living, dead
Sandy tract with scrub or jungle
Tamarisk cones, living, dead
Wild poplars (Toghrak), living, dead
Tamarisk living, dead Conifers