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0398 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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may be supposed, the rivers are unimportant." The ancient
description is scarcely longer, but conveys a wholly differ-
ent impression: "Kirman . . . lies more to the north than
Gedrosia. This is indicated by its fertility, for it not only
produces everything, but the trees are of large size. . . .
It is also watered by rivers. . . . It includes also a desert
tract which is contiguous to Parthia." Even since the
twelfth century there has been deterioration, for in numer-
ous cases ancient Mohammedan towns have been aban-
doned, and cannot be restored because no sufficient supply
of water can be procured.

A single quotation, one from among many that might be
given, will illustrate another kind of evidence on which many
writers have based the conclusion of a change of climate in
Iran. In speaking of the mountains of Kharan in the centre
of northern Baluchistan, Vredenburg says: —

"In all the valleys around Zara there are to be seen
hundreds of stone walls, which are called 'gor-band,' or
'dams of the infidels.' Sometimes they stretch right across
the flat, pebbly floors of the great valleys, which, for want of
a better name, are termed 'rivers.' They also occur across
the entrance to most of the tributary ravines and at various
heights above the main valley. The country is quite unin-
habitable for want of water, and yet there is no doubt about
the nature of these walls, which are similar to works erected
to the present day in many regions of Baluchistan and Persia,
being, in fact, nothing but terraced fields. In many cases
they still hold back the soil, formerly cultivated, which had
been heaped up against them. . . . The absence of any
canals, the great height to which the walls are found up