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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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55- MOSQUE WITH TANK NEAR WEST GATE OF KHOTAN TOWN.
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56. IN TOPCHA GORGE, SOUTH OF ULUGHAT PASS.The few trees here are Toghraks (wild poplars). CHAPTER XV TO THE NISSA GLACIERS The only route available for approach to the westernmosthead-waters of the Yurung-kash was the one I had firstfollowed on my expedition of 1900, but in the inversedirection. So no detailed account need be given here ofthe four long marches which took us from Langhru acrossa succession of high transverse spurs and through barrengorges to Nissa. Nothing had changed in the desolatelook of these curiously eroded rugged ranges and themighty strata of detritus and loess dust which cover theirhigher slopes. But the narrow strips of vegetation at thebottom of those gorges which push their heads closeenough to the snow-line to receive running water duringthe summer months, looked greener now than I could haveexpected from the impressions left by my autumn passagesix years before (Fig. 56). On the top of the first pass,the Ulughat, close on 10,000 feet above the sea, where

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