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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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A later writer, however, Hamdulla the Persian, in 1325 A. D.,
tells us that Aboskun was then under water because the
Oxus had been diverted from its old course about the time
of the Mongols. He probably refers to the siege of Urgenj,
and assumes that the water had remained high ever since,
which may or may not have been true.
A few years before the date when Hamdulla wrote his
account, there had been another sudden rise of the Caspian
Sea. This may have been due to a temporary diversion of
part of the Oxus. Brückner tells us that according to a
story related by Marino Sanuto, the underground outlet by
which the natives supposed the Caspian Sea to drain to the
ocean was closed by an earthquake, whereupon the sea
rose rapidly at the rate of about thirty-two inches a year, and
some towns were submerged. Sheikh Sefi-Eddin says in
reference to this, that the water reached a certain holy grave,
well known even now, which lies thirty-seven feet above the
present datum-level, and then, in the winter of 1306–07,
began to fall. Now this date, be it noted, is within a year of
the time when the Dragon Town on the shore of Lop-Nor
was overwhelmed by the rising of that lake. It is possible
that at about this time there may have been a period of un-
usual rainfall, which caused the rivers and lakes to rise until
the water of the Tarim overwhelmed the Dragon Town, and
that of the Oxus broke from its old channel and flowed
to the Caspian, causing a sudden rise of that sea. It was no
such accident, however, which caused the original submer-
sion of the ruins of Aboskun, as Hamdulla implies, for they
were certainly under water in Istakhri's day, four centuries
earlier, when the Oxus did not flow to the Caspian.
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