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0401 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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lake. By noon the work was finished. So the country is
called 'Nim-ruz,' or 'Half-day.' When the work was done,
the 'Dhus' went to the springs in the mountains and covered
them, so that water no longer came out. Since that time
there has been some water, but not so much as before."

Evidence that the lake once stood higher than now is
found in two old strands fifteen and twenty-five feet above
the present level. That the lake was once smaller than now
is proved by a legend that the island of Kuh-i-Khoja was
formerly part of the main land, and by the fact that the
ruins of Sabari are described by the natives as lying in water
ten or fifteen feet deep.

As to the later history of the lake, the owner of the book
told me that when his ancestors came to Seyistan, about 900
A. D. according to the record, the region near the lake, where
most of the villages now are, was again under water. The
population was densely gathered around Zahidan and other
more elevated places, where now the main ruins are found.
It is not necessary here to enter into the details of evidence
which I have set forth in "Explorations in Turkestan."
Many, perhaps most, of the facts can of course be explained
individually upon other theories than that of climatic change.
No other theory explains all the facts. The most significant
feature of the history of Seyistan is this: A comparison of
physiographic, archæological, historical, and legendary data
shows that all these lines of evidence agree in proving that
the water supply of Seyistan has fluctuated during historic
times. The fluctuations agree in time and character with the
climatic pulsations of Chinese Turkestan.

Before passing to the Caspian Sea, we shall do well to con-