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laid bare layers of refuse intermixed with gravel to a depth of 10 to 12 feet. In a layer near the top I found embedded remains of woollen fabrics (Hasha. 005).

Here and within the main wall the soil is made particularly valuable for manuring by the Exploitation abundance of bones which are found amidst the deposits of refuse. In consequence the whole of of refuse the interior is covered with pits and burrows, much in the same way as ancient village and town deposits. mounds in the Peshāwar valley or at Akra, near Bannu, are exploited on the Indian North-West Frontier. Of structural remains no trace survives on the surface apart from the wall already mentioned and a second inner one, built across the plateau tongue where it narrows to about 60 yards, and similar in construction. Débris of coarse but remarkably hard-fired pottery can be picked up all over the interior amidst clay and stones which once served in walls of dwellings, etc.¹ Finds of coins or of other antiques were stoutly denied by the Hāsha people, and in their absence it is difficult to form any opinion as to the time when the site was occupied. But the depth of the refuse layers points to prolonged occupation and a population denser than that of the narrow cultivated strips of the present Hāsha.

The same day's march brought me to Chakar (Map No. 28. D. 2). This relatively large Village collection of hamlets stretches along the river which, joined by the Ulūgh-sai from the east, carries tract of its water to Gulakhma on the high road. Here I found plenty of fertile loess soil left uncultivated, Chakar. not from any difficulty about water—of this there is plenty, not in the river-bed alone but also in springs to the west of it—but solely through want of labour. Yet here, as elsewhere in this submontane tract known as Tāgh between the rivers of Chīra and Keriya, the increase in the population since the Chinese reconquest was acknowledged on all sides to have been very large indeed.² On August 6, after a long dreary march across bare stony slopes which eastwards were overlain in part by dunes, I reached the fertile oasis of Nūra (Map No. 32. A. 3). Here at an Oasis of elevation of over 7,000 feet there was at last cool air, and in the evening the dust-haze lifted, which Nūra. all through my stay at Khotan and since had completely hidden the view of the mountains. To the south there rose a magnificent line of snowy peaks (Fig. 343), some over 21,000 feet in height, as if to lighten my farewell to familiar oases and deserts by the prospect of fascinating travel in an unexplored high mountain region.

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