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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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strands the dead bushes have not yet been blown away by
the wind shows that the time when the lake stood here can-
not be very remote; and the living bushes probably indi-
cate a period only a century or two ago. Hedin does not
state the height of the strands above the lake, but according
to his section of the old lake-bed, the upper lies six feet
above the highest recent level of Kara Koshun, that of 1901.
"In the history of Kara Koshun," Hedin says, the strands
"serve as milestones marking successive stages on its way to
destruction. The first . . . proves that the northern shore
of the lake once extended 12 km. [seven and a half miles]
farther to the north than it now does, and implies that its
area was at least twice as great as it now is. On the whole
. . . the lake has shrunk at a pretty regular rate." Hedin
does not believe, however, that the climate of the Lop basin
has changed. He attributes the shrinking of the lake to
the assumed increase in the size of the marginal lakes of the
Tarim, but my observations show that the marginal lakes,
the river, and the lake of Lop-Nor all increase and decrease
in size together.
Elsewhere Hedin gives what seems to be evidence that
the lake stood still higher not many centuries ago. In the
salt plain of the old lake-bed seventeen miles north of Kara
Koshun and seven feet above it, he found, as he says, "a
stake of tamarisk wood 35 cm. [ten inches] long, half buried
in the ground, and undoubtedly placed there at a time when
the locality was under water. The lower end of the stake
was sharply pointed and burnt. Three of my attendants,
who were Lopliks, thought that it had been used to moor
canoes to, when their owners had been out on an exploring
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