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0122 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
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[Figure] 486 An Abandoned System of Irrigation Terraces.

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The old through route of East and West crossed the middle of the delta and
so determined the boundaries of Anau's ancient fields along it that a bluff from 1
to 4 feet high of irrigation limits follows much of the way along its southern side.
Other irregularities are found in shallow rounded troughs, whose heading branches
fade into the plain obliterated by more recent irrigation. These are old canal-
ways, bounded once by fields aggrading on either side while they remained unsilted
till abandoned, now slowly losing shape. Each kurgan and the citadel has split
the irrigation stuff around it, thus in part protecting an area directly north or