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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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extend for somemiles along the right bank. Then followed again barrenplateaus of stone and rubble overhanging the river, untilnear the east edge of the fields of Langhru I came uponthe remains of a ruined fort vaguely connected by popularbelief with a demon * Konsasmoma/ The walls, badlydecayed, form an irregular quadrilateral, about a hundredyards long on the north-east, and built of sun-dried bricksof large size. There was no trace of structural remainsinside, nor did the rough construction of the enclosuresupply evidence as to relative age. So much, however,was clear, that the little stronghold was intended to closewhatever routes led down from the mountains. Nighthad fallen by the time I reached camp at a comfortable oldfarm at Langhru. The vicinity of the river and a finegrove of trees gave but little protection against the torridheat thrown out by the barren sandstone cliffs enclosingthe valley. So through the stuffy night I felt doubly gladfor the near escape to the mountains.
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55- MOSQUE WITH TANK NEAR WEST GATE OF KHOTAN TOWN.

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