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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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153- RUIN OF ANCIENT WATCH-TOWER T. III., NEAR WESTERN END OF TUN-HUANG LIMES.The spot where the first discovery of an early Chinese record on wood was made is marked by the two men in foreground.
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154. RUIN OF ANCIENT CHINESE FORT T. XIV., MARKING THE POSITION OF THE JADE GATE, SEEN FROM NORTH-EAST. CH. xLix FIRST SIGHT OF OLD WALL 543 conclusion as to how they had got into the wall justwhere a fortunate chance had made me first examineit. Either the little objects dated from a working partyencamped here at the first construction of the tower andwall, and had been accidentally mixed up with the materialsfor the latter; or else, perhaps, they were relics from asmall post once maintained near the watch-tower, and hadfound their way into the wall adjoining on occasion of somelater repairs. But of far more importance than any such details wasthe view of the line of wall revealed to the east, and of thesuccession of watch-towers which we could sight in thedistance. Luck had favoured me in this respect, too.The tower we had struck, T. iii., in my subsequent closesurvey, proved an excellent station for the plane-tableowing to its commanding position. It stood, apparently,close to a be

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