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0240 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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able from the erosion of surrounding areas. Thus the max-
imum size of the mounds is determined by the extent to
which the water supply has diminished. The actual size, of
course, depends partly on the length of time since the water
was withdrawn. Judging from the relation of mounds to
ruins, I should say that mounds fifty or sixty feet high must
be nearly two thousand years old, and those twenty-five feet
high from five hundred to a thousand or more. Sometimes
tamarisk mounds are formed without a change in the
water supply, but such can be easily distinguished from those
of which we are speaking. They are characterized by a
rounded form, by a vigorous growth of bushes on all sides as
well as on the top, and by the fact that they are composed
entirely of æolian sand, and not partly of sand and partly
of river deposits eroded by the wind. In general, tamarisk
mounds are an unequivocal evidence of a diminution of the
water supply. When, as in the region we are now traversing,
they occur over broad areas where man's activity has had
nothing to do with the water supply, they furnish one of the
strongest possible proofs of climatic changes.
At the end of our first day from Malakalagan, when we
had almost reached the border between the tamarisk mounds
and the sandy desert, we came upon the pottery-strewn site
of a very ancient town, lying fifteen miles north of Karakir,
on the line which the Kara Su River would follow if pro-
longed. Karakir, to which I made a flying visit on the way
to Imamla, is now a little hamlet of about thirty houses,
although in the chronicle of the Mohammedan conquest, it
is spoken of, under the name of Bowa Zengir, as a village
of some importance. A peculiar event took place there