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0123 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
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CHAPTER V

IN SARIKOL

The 8th of July and the day following were given up to a halt
at Tashkurghan. There were not only fresh supplies and
transport to be arranged for, but also much information to be
collected on points of historical and archæological interest.
For Tashkurghan, the chief place of the mountain tract known
as Sarikol, is undoubtedly a site of considerable antiquity.
Its importance reaches back to the days when the traders
from the classical West exchanged here their goods for the
produce of ancient China. As far as local observations go,
everything tends to support the view first expressed by Sir
Henry Rawlinson, that Tash-kurghan, "the Stone Tower,"
retains the position as well as the name of the λίθινος πύργος,
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