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Chap. IVJ NOl'lSS ON SIIEET No. 9 7 1
Khotan (pi, 123-235) ; scc also Srriudia, i. - -
pp. 90 sqq.; iii. 1273 sqcl.
reduces vegetatioa and grazing in these
mour~tai~ts to very ~nodeet limits. Com-
Great as the differences in elcvatior~ n ~~d municat.ionw throng11 the mounta~r~n fron~
general configuration are heln.ee~~ tlle seveval north to >out11 are diflicult and owing to the
zones wl~icl~ this sheet ron~priscs, fr0111 the impassable naturc of tl~e middle Kara-khh
Tnkla~nalta~~ sands up to the high K'UII-111n valley co~~li~lcd to very few routes.
ranges, extreme aridity cliaractrrizes tl~em C~,~rr,c/iotlx. Symbols of latitude station
all. The vicinity of fertile loess soil to the to be adtlcd for Camps 55-61 of 1900-01 (as
deboucl~ure of' tlrr rivers accol~nts for the per list Lelow).
large cultivatt.;l area irl the main Kl~otan A. I.-Santly tract wit11 scrub should
oasis and for tlte st,ring of minor oases strc.telr- have been shown 11;. of GGma as far as
ing along the $lacis of the outer hills Siliglr-langar.
\vestwards a~ld facilit,at,ing t~aflic. 'l'he B. 2.-A belt of drift-sand c~ugl~t to
narrowness of the deep-cut vallryr; furtl~er have bec~~ marked at, and to tl~e west of,
south contines irrigation, a ~ ~ hence d cultiia- B61-kum, on route from Xanguya to Pialma.
tion, to small isolated patclieh barely si~fficicnt B. 8.-The glaciers shown by B.B. Li1
to maintain a few littlesettlernents of I~illmc~u, Singh on tl~e II~I tl~ero slope of the range east
such as push:^, Nissa and Karanphu-tigh of the San,ju-dawir~, near peaks not rieing
(C, D. 4.) In spite of the thick deposits of much above 17,000 feet, are likely to be mere
fertile loess dust which the \\,lnds have snorv-beds.
carried from the desert plains up to the D. 4.-A small patch of cultivation
highest valleys, the aridity of the clin1:lte should have been entered at Omsha hamlet.
Bsfronott~ir~rclly obsert~crl lutit~ides.
1900-01. Kl~otan town Camp 42 (Kkh~n Beg's garden in Tiiwen-Gujao
suburb; D. 2) ... ...
Bizil, Camp43 (B~g's garden; D. 3) ...
Yagan-dawfin, Camp 55 ( D. 3 ) ... . . .
Yagan-aghzi, Camp 56 ( C. 3 ) ... . . .
Camp 57, below Kunat-dawin (D.3) . . .
UIBgh-art, Camp 58 (S.W. of pass ; C. 3) ...
Lfinghru, Camp 59 (near N.E. end of village; D. 3)
Ujat, Camp 61 (near left bank of river; D. 3) ...
1006-08. Pusha, Camp 42 (near Shamsl~el-mazHr ; C. 4) ...
Tashte-iighil, Camp 4.4. (in Kurat-jilga; C. 3)
Camp 46, below Aslipak (C. 3) ...
NOTES ON SHEET No. 10. (KARA-KORAM, KHITAI-DAWAN)
With the exccl~tion of the route from
Shahidullah to the Kara-koram pass (A. l),
the area comprised in this sheet was surveyed
at the close of the second expedition. It
shows interesting portions of the main K'uniun
range near the triangulated peak 23,071
(Pk. 3/52oi), ahere it bifurcates towards
Muz-tigh (Pk. 1161~) aud the peaks near
the sources of tlie Yurung-h-fish liver; also
two of the drainageless basins of the Tibetan
uplands to the south.
For the construction of this sheet a
number of triangulated points were avai-
lable, 10 among them three determined in
the Kashmir G. T. series. Those shown
near the Kara-koram route are taken from
the work of Sir F. De Filippi's expedition,
together with the clinometrical heights of
peaks in A. 1. The value adopted for the
approximate snow-line, j 8,000 feet, is deriv-
ed from the observations made near the
Yangi-dawfin and at the head of the Turgap-
jilga (C, D. 1 ). In A. 1 the limits of per-
petual suow have been indicated in accord-
ance with the :nap of Sir P. De Filippi's
expedition.
A descriptiou of the route followed and
of the ascent to the snowy col on the K'un-
lun watershed west of Peak 23,071 is given
in Desert Cullray, ii. pp. 463 sqq. For some
s See above p. 22. 8eo Appendix A, pointa in 61 X.