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0076 Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu : vol.1
Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu : vol.1 / Page 76 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000215
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northern slopes of the mountains. The physical conditions here observed present a very
striking contrast to those found in the Turfan basin just across the range.

This sudden change is particularly impressive owing to the close connection which, faci-
Connection with litated by several direct passes practicable during the greater part of
Turfan basin. the year, has been maintained with the flourishing oases of that basin
throughout historical times. ¹⁰ We have seen that the Turfan district
reproduces on a small scale all the typical features of the Tarim basin. Hence the inclusion
in the same map sheet, No. 28, which represents its topography, of this edge of Dzungaria, a
specimen, as it were, of another vast division of Central Asia, cannot fail to be geographically
instructive.