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0200 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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with a kang, and a Chinaman lying on it smok-
ing opium. It was perfectly cool below there,
and there was no musty smell, for the soil is
extremely dry. The room was well ventilated
by means of a hole leading up through the roof.
Turfan and its neighbourhood lies at an
extremely low altitude. My barometer here
read 29·48. My thermometer was broken, so
that I cannot record the temperature, but it
may be taken at between 90° and 100°—say
95°. Turfan must be between two and three
hundred feet below the level of the sea,* which,
considering that it is in the heart of the con-
tinent several thousand miles from any sea is a
sufficiently remarkable fact.
After leaving Turfan and as we neared
Karashar we entered a country thickly covered
with trees, like a park, with long coarse grass
in tufts, and many small streams, one of which
was four feet deep and nearly covered the mules
and flooded the bottom of the cart while cross-
ing. The rainfall here must be considerably
more than farther east. The soil is sandy and