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0219 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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alternative seems incredible, especially when the scarcity of
water in winter is considered, but it is impossible to speak
positively. It is scarcely probable that with the Chira, Genju,
and Pisha rivers close at hand, any government would have
chosen to build the chief walled town of the district on a
little brook, which, under the best of circumstances, could
provide barely enough water for drinking purposes. There
is no ground for supposing that part of the brook has been
diverted, or that it has grown smaller for any reason other
than change of climate. If the climate was somewhat moister,
and the brook larger, all difficulty disappears.
The hypothesis of climatic change explains another point.
If conditions were as they are to-day, it is remarkable that
so large a town should have grown up in this remote spot
among the mountains. The population from Pisha on the
west to Imamla on the east — the district which is naturally
tributary to a market town located at Choka — amounts
to-day to less than five thousand people. It could not be
greatly increased without the adoption of irrigation meth-
ods far in advance of any known ever to have been prac-
ticed in Central Asia. The present bazaar town of Chaka,
northeast of Choka, has a population of about three or four
hundred directly around the centre, although as the weekly
bazaar was revived only ten years ago, the number may
increase somewhat. A town like Choka, with from three to
five thousand people, seems disproportionately large as the
centre of an outlying district with a population scarcely
twice as great. If, however, the climate were more pro-
pitious, the possibilities of irrigation would increase; and
the pasture zone upon the loess deposits would be increased