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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
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e set vigorously to work,and by the end of a second day these eight or ninedwellings with their out-houses and cattle-sheds had beensearched. Most of them were small and poorly built, as befittedthe homesteads occupying what was evidently the eastern-most fringe of the ancient settlement Others on island-like * witnesses, rising over ground which had beenlowered by wind erosion fully twenty feet below itsoriginal level (Fig. 99), were too clear of drift sand toretain much of antiquarian value. One large ruin, how-ever, had fared better and, having evidently been occupiedby a person of some consequence, yielded up Kharoshthitablets in numbers. Fences and groves of fruit trees nearit were remarkably well preserved ; in one of the latterI found the bleached trunk of a mulberry tree still risingto some fourteen feet in height, while remains of thickvines lay twisted beneath the sand. A strong north-east wind was blowing during thesedays, and the fine sand driven before it made the work of
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99- RUINED DWELLING, N. XXVIII., ON ERODED CLAY TERRACE, NIYA SITE. Fence of ancient garden and more erosion witnesses in foreground. Figure of man in centreindicates extent of erosion.

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