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metrical stations and intersected points the
tables in Appendix A (International Sheet
N.K-45, K, O, S) indicate the correct posi-
tions, based upon Clementi's chronometrically
determined value of Korla. A list of the
positions which have been shown in accord-
ance with their astronomically observed
latitudes is given below.

For a description of the ground near
the interesting ruined site of Shörchuk,
shown in the N.W. corner of the sheet, see
Desert Cathay, ii. pp. 365 sqq.; Serindia, iii.
pp. 1182 sqq.; for a brief account of the
Ying-p'an site (D. 3), at the head of the
ancient river-bed of the Kuruk-daryā, and
of the early Chinese route thence traced
along the foot of the Kuruk-tāgh glacis to-
wards Korla, cf. Geograph. Journal, xlviii.
pp. 208 sq. The historical topography of the
tract along the Konche-daryā below Korla
is discussed in Serindia, iii. p. 1231.

Apart from the south-western corner of
the Kara-shahr basin (A, B. 1) this sheet
comprises portions of two very distinct areas.
To the north-east it shows barren much-
eroded hill-ranges of the Kuruk-tāgh and to
the south of them the wide belt of riverine

Astronomically observed latitudes.
1906-08. Dasokho-bulak, Camp 281 (D. 1) ... ... ... 41° 32′ 18″
Ming-oi Site, N. of Shörchuk, Camp 288 (A. 1; for position, see
Serindia, iii. Plan 51) ... ... ... 41° 55′ 48″
1913-15. Tikenlik, Camp 71 (near mosque; C. 3) ... ... 40° 38′ 26″
Ying-p'an, Camp 73 (near ruin of Chinese rest-house; D. 3) ... 40° 56′ 59″
Shindi, Camp 295 (on hillock, north of huts; D. 2) ... 41° 14′ 34″
Hill-station N.W. of Suget-bulak, Camp 298 (C. 2) ... 41° 26′ 41″
Hill-Station S. of Yetim-bulak, Camp 301 (B. 2) ... 41° 26′ 10″

NOTES ON SHEET No. 26 (VĀSH-SHAHRI)

The surveys shown in this sheet were
made from routes followed on the second
and third expeditions. The delineation of
the mountainous ground in the south is
based on R. B. Lāl Singh's triangulation of
1913 (see Appendix A, Stations and Inter-
sected Points in 69 z, 69 x), the details of
his plane-table work being supplemented by
Bai Rām Singh's survey of 1906. The
traverses along the Charchan-Charkhlik
route, surveyed by myself in 1906 and
again under my immediate supervision in
1913, were adjusted to the position adopted
for Charkhlik, as indicated in Notes on

scrub and jungle watered by the interlacing
beds of the Inchike-daryā, Tārim and Kon-
che-daryā. On the west this belt is bor-
dered by the sands of the Taklamakān.

From the east it is approached by the
Lop desert. An outlier of the last-named
divides the ancient continuation of the
Konche-daryā course towards Lou-lan, re-
presented by the dry bed of the Kuruk-
daryā, from the present course of the
Konche-daryā (C, D. 3).

The small oases of Kara-kum and
Tikenlik and those further south owe their
existence to attempts of the present Chinese
administration to facilitate communication
between the routes leading along the northern
and southern sides of the Tārim basin. The
great difficulties with which irrigation has
to contend here, mainly owing to the fre-
quent shifts of the river-beds, account for
the very limited extent and quasi-peripatetic
character of cultivation in this riverine zone.

Corrections. B. 3. Ulūgh-köl should
be in black.

C. 1. Red line of path to be extended
north to Camp Āltun-ghol and beyond.

Sheet No. 30. Apart from the latitude
observations recorded below, use was made
also of Dr. Hedin's latitude value for Lash-
kar-satma (B. 3) and that of Roborovsky
for Vāsh-shahri. 12a

The ground seen by me along my route
of 1906 is described in Desert Cathay, i. pp.
329 sqq.; the historical topography of the
route is discussed in Serindia, i. pp. 306 sqq.

The southern portion of the sheet shows
the outer spurs of the northernmost K'un-
lun range, separated by extremely barren
valleys. None of the streams which bring
down water from the snowy main range