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0657 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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and well-preserved sheets have, under M. Chavannes' ex-
amination, proved to contain an exact daily record of
expenses, very interesting in its details, kept by the monks
of a Buddhist establishment. The constant references
made to outlays on creature comforts and luxuries un-
thinkable in such a desert locality, indicate that this
curious monastic account must have found its way here
from a distance. Whatever the origin of this particular
piece may have been, it is certain that this lonely frontier
post in the desert, just like the ruined fort of Miran, serves
to mark the wide extent of Tibetan predominance after
Chinese control of the Tarim Basin was lost in T'ang times.
While I was busy with the digging I let the Surveyor
make a reconnaissance along the geologically interesting
hill range stretching away north-westwards. He was able
to follow it for over twelve miles, and saw it continuing
beyond for at least as great a distance. Considering the
bearing of this curious low range and the similarity of its
geological structure with that of the chain of rugged, isolated
hills subsequently visited near Maral-bashi and Tumshuk
beyond the Yarkand River, it appears very probable that it
forms the last remnant of an ancient mountain system
which jutted out south-eastwards into the Tarim Basin from
the outermost chain of the T'ien-shan. The never-ceasing
wind erosion of countless ages has reduced this remnant to
its present insignificant dimensions, and has so completely
broken its connection with those apparently isolated rock-
islands that Hedin, when crossing in 1896 the great area
of drift sand from the side of the Yarkand River, saw no
trace of its line.