Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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-dong, and a warm and slightly sulphurous springclose below it. Then we crossed, almost without per-ceiving it, the lov/ and flat saddle which separates theAb-i-Panja Valley from the drainage of the Murghab orAk-su, the other main branch of the Oxus. By a geo-graphically interesting bifurcation which I was glad toverify closely, the stream of the Chilap Jilga whichdebouches on this saddle from the range to the north sendsits waters partly towards Bozai-gumbaz and the Ab-i-Panja and partly into Lake Chakmaktin, the head-watersbasin of the Murghab. It was curious to think that, whilesome drops in the Chilap stream would reach the trueOxus bed within a couple of hours, others from the samemelting snow-bed would have to travel over three hundredand fifty miles through the Russian Pamirs and thegorges of Roshan before becoming reunited. From where we touched the shore of Lake Chak-maktin the broad basin of the Little Pamir spread out tothe north-east, a morne waste of half-frozen marsh and
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27- VIEW ACROSS LAKE CHAKMAKTIN TOWARDS AK-TASH, LITTLE PAMIR.

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