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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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tramping over the glaring dunes in search of the other* houses which Ahmad, the Suya treasure-seeker, hadstill to show me in this neighbourhood. They proved tobe the remains of modest dwellings built with timber andplaster walls, first destroyed by erosion and finally by theburrowings of those who have searched for treasure,whenever the march of the dunes left them exposed duringthe course of long centuries. In one of them we couldstill trace the ground plan marked by the remains of wallsmade of plastered reed matting, the position once occupiedby large jars sunk into the mud floor, and so on. Farther east, where the dunes were getting lower anderosion had run its full course, the ground showed a distinctapproach to the familiar Tati type. Pottery debris red-dened large stretches of eroded ground. Yet here and therethe light drift sand still protected more distinctive marksof ancient occupation. There were the low stumps of fruittrees and poplars which once had surrounded the vanished
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74- ERODED REMAINS OF TEMPLE RUIN AT KINE-TOKMAK.Arrows mark original ground level and lowest masonry course of south-east and south-west walls.

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