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0348	The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

0348

The Pulse of Asia : vol.1

アジアの鼓動 : vol.1

who had to leave Jan Kul, Dural, and Kara-Kum would
have used it. Yet, formerly, the water of the Bujentu valley
supported a small village. Here, as in other cases, there
appears to have been a mediæval, or Mohammedan period
of revival after the earlier abandonment of the site by the
Buddhists.
North of Ying-pen rises the steep escarpment of Kuruk
Tagh. At its top there is said to be a district which, though
called "Davan," or "Pass," is in reality a gently rolling,
grassy pasture land, the eastern prolongation of the Tian
Shan plateau. In order to avoid this, we made a détour to
the east to Kuzzil Singer. The scenery was almost identical
with that of eastern Persia so far as the main physiographic
forms were concerned. We traversed desolate plains of
barren gravel, from which rose low, half-buried mountains,
worn into rounded shapes if viewed as a whole, but ex-
tremely sharp, jagged, and naked if examined in detail.
Some of the hills were wonderfully streaked with patches
of red and white shale, which had been enclosed in the black
mass of ancient and now much faulted lava flows. The
whole region was made up of gravel-filled basins, in which
the gravel had often risen so high that it covered the lower
passes of the mountains. Long ago, when there had been
less deposition of gravel, the basins were separate. Now
they have coalesced, and all drain, or would drain if they
had water enough, into two main salt plains, or ancient
lakes, named Ugunnto and Uzun Bulaki Shor. There
are no permanent streams east of the high plateau, and the
few springs are for the most part saline. The region is well
called the Dry Mountains. It is a typical example of the

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