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Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 |
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REMAINS OF ANCIENT WATCH-TOWER, T. XX.. OVERLOOKING LAKE WEST OF KHARA-NOR, TUN-HUANG LIMES. |
| [Photo] 179 |
HILLOCK WITH REMAINS MARKING POSITION OF ANCIENT 'JADE GATE' STATION, NEAR FORT T. XIV., TUN-HUANG LIMES. |
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were concluded, I set about to sear[ch]
atically.
It was not long before I discovered frag[ments]
dark grey pottery with which my work a[t]
had made me familiar, at the foot of slo[pes]
a hundred yards to the north of the [mound]
Chiang and the Naik were engaged i[n]
tower in the west, I had retained with [me]
of our men for prospecting; and as t[hey]
the slope of the mound at different p[oints]
and other stable refuse came to light [at]
some point below the cover of gravel. [In]
g this first experimental search near th[e]
place where his spade laid bare a netw[ork]
ard clay composing the hillock.
proved to be the mouth of a little tunn[el]
had been broad and about as high, runn[ing]
d and filled with drift sand and rela[ted]
form any view about its purpose, two of [my]
had emerged among pieces of blank [wood]
buttons, and similar rubbish. Soon in [the]
rowed out of sight while clearing the tu[nnel]
ing his way in for some ten feet, he repo[rted]
room completely filled with sand. So th[e]
possible here until the other men came ba[ck]
task. But the spirits of my own prosp[ectors]
ed by a liberal reward for his discovery [of]
about occupying elsewhere. Not far fro[m]
drawn on the slope, he unearthed a sma[ll]
soft rock, and here another score of tab[lets]
excellent preservation. Of course I had [to]
ang-yeh, and when he arrived from th[e]
hand two miles off, an eager scanning [of]
ms.
Many of the narrow slips of wood wer[e]
riate but well-written characters in seve[ral]
great was my joy when the dated piece[s]
ed on the plaques proved to belong [to]
9 A.C. So at last we had got well laid [down]
nstian era. All the dated records foun[d]
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