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The Pulse of Asia : vol.1 |
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and a subsequent standstill." The mosque is sixteen feet
above Brückner's zero.
In spite of Shah Rukh, one is inclined to doubt whether
the whole stream of both the Oxus and the Jaxartes ever
entered the Caspian, leaving the Aral to dry up entirely.
At any rate, only fifty years later, in 1470 A. D., Said Abdul
Hassan says that "the river Amu, the great Jihun [Oxus],
is the river which debouches in the Caspian Sea; it is also
the Kharesm Jihun which goes to Baheira Kharesm [the
Sea of Aral]." Abdul-Ghazi, prince of Urgenj, or ancient
Khiva, writing about 1632 A. D., gives a detailed account of
certain changes in the Oxus: "In A. H. 880 [A. D. 1475], com-
munication between Urgenj and the country of Abul-Khan
[the Ust-Urt plateau] was very frequent; because the river
Amu [Oxus], after having passed under the walls of Urgenj,
directed itself [along the Uz-boi channel] toward the eastern
portion of the mountain of Abul-Khan, then toward the
south following the base of the mountain, then toward the
west. The river passed near Oghurja and finally discharged
its waters into the sea of Mazanderan [the Caspian]."
Again, he says that "[in A. D. 1575] thirty years before his
birth, the Amu at Kara-Uighur-Tokai detached an arm
[on the right], which passed the city of Tuk, and threw
itself into the sea of Syr [Aral]. It was by this accident
that the country of Urgenj has become a desert for lack
of water. . . . The place of the embouchure of the [new]
river received the name Aral six months after the death of
Essen [A. D. 1622]."
From the information given by Abul-Ghazi, it is not clear
whether the branch of the Oxus which in 1575 was diverted
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