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0418 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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boldt, assumes that the ancients were much like the moderns,
generally right as to facts of personal observation, but often
wrong in their inferences, and not always careful to distin-
guish between the two, or between information acquired
first hand, and that quoted from others. If we adopt the
second attitude, it is impossible to reconcile the ancient ac-
counts with the facts, unless we accept the hypothesis that
in the days of Herodotus and Alexander, over twenty-two
hundred years ago, the Caspian Sea stood nearly a hundred
and fifty feet higher than now, and almost coalesced with
the Sea of Aral. Three or four centuries later, at the begin-
ning of the Christian era, the water had apparently fallen
to a level a hundred feet or less above that of to-day, the sea
being still much larger than at present.

It is not possible as yet to connect any physiographic evi-
dence directly with the high stand of the Caspian Sea which
we have inferred from the data of history. Nevertheless,
as many writers have noted, and as I saw in 1903 when
traveling with Professor Davis, the sea is bordered by aban-
doned strands lying at various heights up to six hundred
feet above the present water-level. The state of preservation
of the lower strands, and of some of the upper ones, such as
that six hundred feet above the sea at Baku, shows that they
are of very recent origin, though no one has yet succeeded in
correlating them with any events of human history. Their
weak development shows that, as a rule, the sea did not stand
at any one level for a long time. Other features, as Professor
Davis has pointed out, suggest that the strands were formed
by a lake which alternately rose and fell, as would happen
during alternate fluvial and inter-fluvial epochs. At Jebel