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0543 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 / Page 543 (Color Image)

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[Photo] 261 RUINS OF SMALL BUDDHIST STUPA AND SHRINE AT KICHIK-HASSAR, TURFAN. Tila Bai standing on top of dune.
[Photo] 262 RUINED SHRINES AND CAVE-TEMPLES ON WEST SIDE OF TOYUK GORGE, TURFAN.

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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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the inner face. From the débris id...
some passages, and still more fro...
covering the floor of a room on the...
not far off, I recovered a number of...
and documents all written in Uigur scr...
to prove that the site had continued to be...
towards the close of the Buddhist per...
indications it seemed safe to conclude th...
sand-covered desert around, now dotted...
mission, was then under cultiva...

From the height of the ruined for I...
southwards the glistening end of the de...
bed which receives whatever of Turfan...
evaporation. Above it rose the grey p...
Chöl-tagh range towards Singur. Very...
stay at Chong-Hassar I sent ha Lai Si...
seasons to north and east to survey the...
while careful observations made it cle...
the mercurial barometer showed to be...
fully 360 feet below the sea. The lake...
lake was boggy and impassable in most...
ground north of it was covered with...
and lumps of salt, clear evidence tha...
lake had been shrinking within more re...

I myself examined the ruin know...
or the 'Little Castle,' two miles of it...
finding that the group of small buildi...
(Fig. 261) had never been tended to...
took occasion to have them thorough...
help of a band of labourers made a...
Besides fragments of wall coveri...
recovered remains of delicate pain...
small but well-conserved some of th...
wood. Manuscript pieces still sp...
Uigur, Chinese, and Tibetan prove...
shrines contained at least at late...
Chong-Hassar. The fact that the...
done by near summer for its detail...
shrines, which, as the photograph sh...
invaded by dunes.