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90 NO'I'ISS ON INL)I\'IDITAL MAll SI11~:ETS [Chap. IV
camvan t,rark a1011g the so~~tl~er~~ shore of -1.1s ; ii. 1'1'. 549, 629.
the salt-eocrostetl bed of tllc Iiop sett. l?or 'I'he 1)ortion of the kltin-tfig11 act,tlally
its descril~tion and its historici~l tol)ogral)lly, s~irv(syed tloes llvt apl)ear to reach the snowspe
the relc~rrncc given above in the Notes linc :it ally 11oint a.lltl is clraracterized by
on Sheet No. 3:'. 1s I I i s a c\trcnle aridity. The \vitlc glacis of gravel
this 1)ortion of the ro11tr arc. silt, it is itst.tl and tletritus dcsccllcling from it to\varcls the
by mlavnns only from nbont 1)ccrnlber to alcicnt JJop sea-bed is ovcrrnn in parts by
earl!- ;\lwil, when the ice forli~etl nt those lriglr drift-sand and is even more barren t11a11
slwillgsccan be ustit1 for the sul)l)ly of tiriiik- tlre range. l'lle occasional flood-vvnter from
able \v;tter. At ot.ller senrolls the hill rolttc the ~riolllltains is absorbed on this glacis.
alotrg the northnn slolies of the Xltin-tiiglt, BII~ t,lre scanty subsoil drainage tlius created
an ensternmost extensicpn of the li'un-Inn, is probably accounts for the few salt, slwings
alone available. 'I'l~ir rollte, too, is re~ldcretl aud adjoil~ing ~inrron' reed-beds to be found
very dittic~llt by the rarit.y of springs and the along the well-tnarked shore-line of the saltextreme
barrenness of the ground. Regard- encrilsted sea-bed at Lotvaza, KGshe-langza
ins the historical topogral>liy of' this ronte, and l'auja (A-C. 1).
mentioned in early Chiliese records and now Coricclio~ts. Replace height tipre IS90
ktlo\vu to the Lop people as /tigl,-yo/, 'the at Lowaza, Camp 57, by 2037 (cf. Appenmoutltain
route', see Seriurfitr, i. ~1). 320,
Bsfro~ro,iti(~cr/[ ulsc~.rc,r/ latilrrr/es.
dix 8).
1bCO-08. Panja, Camp 1-17 (at eastern spring; C. 1 )
1913-35. Tiisll-kiil, Camp 33 (C. 2 ) . . .
Lonnzn, CRIIII) 57 ( near spring; A. 1 )
NOTES ON SIIEET No. 34, (BARKIJL, HXMI)
Of the serve!-s recorded in this sheet,
those to the uortll of tlre T'ien-shan and a
few to the sooth of it belong to the third
expedition, while most of tlie work on the
latter ground dates from the autumn of 1907.
The traverse along the main caravan road
through the IlAmi or Kumul oasis
had two observed latitudes and was adjllstecl
on the positiuns adopted for Picllan (see
Sheet No. 31 ) and An-hsi ( No. 38).
The location tlriis derived for the town
thern foot of the T'ien-shan, the position of
Barkul (B. 1) was fixed by adjustment of
the traverses to Ku-ch4&ng-tzu and Turfan,
corrected to its observed latitude; a further
check for the longitude was supplied by the
location of tlie Barltul-daman (D. 2) in the
1906-OS survey. The longitude thus ac-
cepted for Barliul (92' 51' 20") falls about
4.' 40" to the west of tile one shon~n by the
Russian maps. Tile indication of the snow-
line at about 12,000 feet is necessarily con-
of Hinii (C. Y ) agrees very close1.v in longi- jectural, since tllc range between the n~eri-
tude (circ. 93' 26' ) n.itll that shown by the dians of Harkal and HGnli was sighted on
Russian Trans-frontier map, but falls some both journeys at the close of October when
8 minutes to the east of Mr. Clcment,i7s fresh snonT had already fallen as low as the
value (93' 18' 16"). On the Barknl-daman jcirc. 9,200 ft.).
other hand the position obtained in the same
\\ray for Hoang-lung-kang, a small village
on the highroad a short march to the southeast
of I-IHmi, agrees almost esactly in
longitude (93' 44' 40") as well as in
latitude with that observed by Mr. Clementi.
The traverse made by hf. l\lohammad YakGb
from Toghucha (B. 2) to Pichan (Sheet No.
31. A. 3), when adjusted from the latter
place, was found to indicate for Toghucha
, position closely agreeing with that of the
former survey.
On the route passing along the nor-
A short acconnt of my stay at HImi
and of the observations on arcl~~ological
excursions thence made to the small oases of
Ara-tam ( D. 3 ) and Lapclrok-Kara-diibe
(B. 3) has been given in Ur.ve~/ CufArry, ti.
pp. 342 sqq. Notwithstanding the limited
extent of c~lltivable gronnd, Hsmi, owing to
its position on what has since the first
Chinese occupation of the district (A. u. 73)
remained a main line of traffic between
Kan-su and Chinese Turkistsn, has played
an important part in China's political and
comn~ercial relations wit11 Central Asia; its