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0448 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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CHAPTER XVII

AMONG THE RUINS OF TURFAN

The first week of November 1914 found the several parties
into which my expedition had been divided since leaving
the Etsin-gol safely reunited at Kara-khoja, an important
oasis in the centre of the Turfan depression. Archaeological
and geographical reasons combined had made me choose
this small but economically and historically important dis-
trict as the base and chief ground for the explorations of
that winter. On the physical side the Turfan basin derives
special interest from the fact that within close topographical
limits and thus in a concentrated form, as it were, it exhibits
all the characteristic features of its great neighbour and
counterpart, the Tarim basin. To this may be added the
fact that in its terminal salt lake it contains what is one of
the deepest depressions below sea-level on the land surface
of our globe. Hence a detailed survey of this area on a com-
paratively large scale, extended as far as limits of time would
permit, was bound to claim my attention. The briefest
description must suffice here.
The undrained basin of Turfan lies between the snowy
Bogdo-ula portion of the Tien-shan in the north and the
much-decayed hill ranges of the Kuruk-tagh, those truly
'Dry Mountains' in the south. Along the foot of the latter
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