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0287 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 / Page 287 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 70. RUIN OF ANCIENT WATCH-TOWER, T. III, NEAR WESTERN END OF TUN-HUANG LIMES. The spot where the first discovery of an early Chinese record on wood was made is marked by the two men in the foreground.
[Photo] 71. LINE OF LIMES WALL NEAR WATCH-TOWER, T. XIII.

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doi: 10.20676/00000214
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river-bed. Adjoining it I traced s
tructure, badly decayed, probab
a. Fragments of iron impleme
e of stout woollen fabric whi
ned this. Later systematic su
a watch-tower advanced bey
the ancient protected borde
ied for our ponies was now b
n made it imperative to go
marches off, without undu
and only three miles beyon
of what proved the terri
aced another ruined wat
distance away to the sou
on by the well-marked t
(Fig. 70). It showed the s
the flat gravel surface aro
of other structural remai
racted by a line of reed hu
ved soil close by. Following t
ateau edge, I saw to my del
way perfectly straight tow
se three miles to the east a
mistakable wall where it cros

led that I actually stood on t
learing away the slight layer
pon a regular wall construct
laced at regular intervals acro
whole consolidated by permis
utside, and placed at right ang