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0140 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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Yarkand, flows along the western and northern sides of
the basin and drains over half its area. Because of the im-
portance of this river, the region is often called the "Tarim
basin." As this name applies to only the western portion
of the country under discussion, it seems better to designate
the basin as a whole by the name of its terminal reservoir,
as is done in the case of the Aralo-Caspian basin, the
Titicaca basin, the Great Salt Lake basin, and many others.
Accordingly, I shall make little or no use of the term
"Tarim basin," and shall use "Lop basin" as the name of
the central basin of Asia. The Lop basin, thus defined,
comprises the most western portion of the Chinese Empire.
Together with the Turfan basin north of Lop-Nor, it
forms what is known as Chinese Turkestan; and with the
smaller regions of Ili and Dzungaria to the north, is com-
prised in the huge Chinese province of Hsin-Kiang, the
"new province."
The most important factor in determining the character
of the vegetation, and hence of the animal and human life
of a region, is, of course, its climate. The climate of the
Lop basin depends upon the threefold fact that the basin
lies first in the middle of the temperate zone, second in the
centre of the largest of the continents, and third in the
midst of a ring of lofty mountains which completely enclose
it. The three factors combine to minimize the amount of
precipitation, and to induce great extremes of temperature.
From September, 1905, to March, 1906, during most of
which time I was in the central part of the basin, I saw no
precipitation whatever, though in mid-January, near Lop-
Nor, I came upon two or three inches of snow which was