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0410 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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CHAPTER XVII

THE CASPIAN SEA AND ITS NEIGHBORS

The Caspian Sea, like the other enclosed basins which
we have examined, has fluctuated in level during historic
times. Its relation to the Sea of Aral and to the Oxus River
has complicated its history, and has caused much disagree-
ment among modern writers. Humboldt has devoted al-
most two hundred pages of his great work on Central Asia
to the subject; Rawlinson has investigated it carefully;
Brückner has made an exhaustive study of the fluctuations
of the sea, especially during the last two centuries; and
many other writers have contributed more or less to a dis-
cussion which began two thousand years ago, and in which
no agreement has as yet been reached.

Among the ancients, some considered the Caspian Sea
a part of the great "stream of Ocean" surrounding the
habitable earth; others supposed it to be one of four sym-
metrical gulfs which were thought to penetrate from the
northern and southern oceans into the dry land; while still
others, who knew that it was an enclosed basin, inferred
that it must have an underground outlet to the Black Sea,
which, as a matter of fact, lies eighty-five feet above it.
Previous to the days of Herodotus, the Caspian Sea is
mentioned only vaguely. Two ancient records, one Greek
and one Egyptian, have been supposed to refer to it, and
possibly to the Sea of Aral; and the traditions of the Argo-
nauts have been thought to show that water communication