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Chap. IV] NOTES ON SHEET No. 4 67
occasional floods, permit of cultivation in subsoil drainage eupporte sufficient vegetosmall
patches. In the basin of Yai-dobe tion for winter grazing of Kirghiz camps.
A~tro?io~1111irnl/~y O~.RM?~PI/ /atit~cl/r.
Tunguzluk, C. 346 (to N.W. of spring; C. 4)
NOTES ON SHEET No. 5 (YANCiI-HISSAR, YARKAND)
This sheet embodies the surveys made
on a series of routes on all three expeditions.
The area s~lrveyed is proportionate to the
great extent of cultivated ground to be
found within the limits of this sheet. The
routes followed in 1900-01 lay mainly
\\.ithi11 and between the populous districts
of Kishgar and Yirkand. ' Those of 1906-
08 covered ground all along the Yirkand
river as well as portions of the hill areain the
the observations of Cav. De Filippi's expedi-
tion. For the determination of other psi-
tions the latitude observations of 1900-01
and 1906-08, as noted below, have been
used, as well as those of Captain H. H. P.
Deasy on his route from Kishgar to Yir-
kand ria Khin-arlk; those of Dr. Hedin
along the Yirkand river, and others recorded
in the Yirkand Mission Report.
In respect of topographical details full
north-west and south-west corners of the advantage was tab-en-of the fact that several
sheet, while 011 the journey of 1913-15, the of the chief routes in this sheet were sur-
new routes surveyed lay chiefly from veyed more tlian once in the course of my
Kishgar to MariI-bishi and along the right three expeditions (see the routes from
bank of the Yirkand river below Yirkand. Kishgar to Karghalik; from Kizil-dawin
The well-determined positions of Yhr- to Yirkand; from Abid to Kishgar, etc.).
kand, Yangi-hissir, Kishgar, Maril-bishi The physical character of the area comprised
and Karghalik served as base points for the in the sheet exhibits considerable variety.
construction of the sheet. Of these, the last Besides the compact well-cultivated tracts
three fall outside its limits and for the ob- of the Kishgar, Yangi-hissir, and Yirkand
servations which fix them reference may be districts and the minor oases between, or
made to the Notes on Sheets Nos. 2, 6 and 8. near, them nre find here a fairly large outlier
For Yirkand the latitude observed in of the central drift-sand desert around
1900 and 1906 at our quarters of Chini-bigh Ordam-pidshih and extensive belts of
(about one mile south of the city walls) is riverine jungle below Faizibid in the north
supported by the observations of the Yir- (B-D. I) and below Kbfid in the east
kand Mission of 1873 and Sir P. De Filippi's (C,D. 2).
expedition of 1914, while the longitude now For brief descriptive accounts of the
shown, which is derived from the wireless routes followed by me, cf. R~rins of Kholan,
observation of the latter (77' 15' 46^), pp. 133 sqq.; Desert Catkay, i. pp. 146
differs only by 15 seconds from the oxle sqq.; for the early historical topography of
which was adopted in Sheet 11 of our
1906-08 map. ' For Yangi-hissfir the coordinates
adopted are those deduced from
Asfronomicnlly ohserverl lalittldes.
the region, see dacie?~t Kl/otnw, i. pp. 42
sqq., 86 sqq.
1900-01. Eski, Camp 25 (A. 1)
Yamin-yir, Camp 24 (A. 2)
...
. . . . .
39" 33' 59"
39" 25' 17"
Dong-arik, Camp 25 (B. 2 ; symbol omitted in map)
Achchik-bizir, Camp 26 (B. 2) ...
39" 16' 1"
:IS0 7' 19"
Ordam-pidshih-mazir, Camp 27 (B. 3) . . .
Kizil-biizir, Camp 29 (half a mile S. of Sarai ; B. 3)
Ak-rabit, Camp 111 (B. 3) . ...
3S0 55' 34''
38" 39' 20.
38" 32' 39"
Kok-rabit, Camp 30 (beyond S.E. end of village; B. 4) 38' 25' 40"
1 I have kept the conventional spelling of Tir- I may mention that his plane-table of 1900-01 showed
ksnd witliont using the hyphen between the clearl~ for Yirkand the longitude of 57' 19' lo", a remerk-
recognizable parts of the componnd name (T-ir-kand, ably close approach to the true one, considering the
i. 8. settlemer~t by the ' Yir ' or eroded ravine). small scale oeed and other circomstance~.
& evidence of Rim Bingh'n very careful work