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general level of the sand now separating them from the
water's edge—sometimes by a distance of two miles or
more. These banks are still sharply defined, suggesting
that only a few years have passed since they were filled.
No such affluents were seen as are shown on the latest
Russian map in connection with a lake occupying nearly
the position given by my notes to this sheet of salt water.
Information concerning the lake, and concerning the
mountain system of Aksai Chin, has doubtless hereto-
fore been taken only from the reports of natives. The
error in respect to the mountains is considerable. The
dominating chain is not north and south, as heretofore
shown, but there are two east-and-west chains, generally
parallel to the Kuen Lun. The first lake and the salt
lake both lie closely ensconced in bounding hills of the
valley, which narrows at these points. Heretofore they
are shown as in open plains.
Another correction of some importance has to do with
the course of the Karakash, which has been shown here-
tofore as extending sixty miles or more farther south
than is the fact. We chanced to come into the valley of
this stream above its permanent sources, which come up
out of the sand. There was seen, indeed, a small break
in the valley wall, corresponding to the point where the
assumed southern extension appears on older maps. But
this opening was seen to have a steep incline upward,
and no water came from it. Nor can a considerable
volume come at any time, as just below this point the
valley was crossed completely, from hill to hill, by a
very curious line of small stone monuments, about two
feet apart, and consisting of small boulders piled about
a foot high.
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