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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Zerafshan Galchas (Gentlemen). |
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Zerafshan Galcha with his Plow. |
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by bridges. Besides stone implements other slabs were found to have Arabic
inscriptions, but without dates, one of our men being able to read them with some
difficulty.
Its moats and the native tra-
dition that the Zerafshan once
flowed through them make Kodi-
shar Kurgan of interest. If we
grant truth to this tradition, there
are two possibilities: water may
have stood at this level because of
a landslide across the canyon or
because the river then had not cut
down below terrace G. Although
there are remains of landslides
that appear to have wrought a
comparable change in other por-
tions of the valley, no such re-
mains are found near Kodishar.
Perhaps the chances are in favor of a landslide, but it seems barely possible that the
Zerafshan, now so actively corrading, has cut down its narrow channel to a depth
of 280 feet in say 2,000 years, but that would be 1.5 inches per year.
HISSAR.
In discussing the natural processes of obliteration, the remarkable height of
the citadel of Old Hissar was attributed in part to a mantle of loess protecting
it from erosion. It
rises to a height of
100 feet or more, in
the form of a crouch-
ing lion facing east.
A part of its highest
end (the eastern)
is occupied by the
palace of the vice-
roy (koshbegee),
while the rest is bare
except for his stables.
Culture-strata of
loess mixed with
pottery, bones, and
charcoal are exposed
to a depth of 20 feet
in a pit on its western half. It is possible that a portion of its 100-feet thickness
above ground is composed of loess deposited during periods of abandonment,
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