1923%20Memoir%20on%20Maps%20of%20Chinese%20Turkistan%20by%20Stein%20s

Chap. IV] NOTES ON SHEET No. 23 81
sqq. ; for historical referet~ccs to it, Srtixrlia, Hi~liar 1111 ntretahc:~ tl~e bare glacis of
i. PI). 295 scl.
i~iedrl~orrt grdvcI, t~rokerl t,y tr~tmero~~e dcq-
'l'l~e desert route ('1-C. 1) keep6 Lo the cut flootl-beds (r,/ru/r), lut utterly nraterlew
soot.11eri1 edge of file ~andy belt wlrere vege- for the grc*atest part of the year. It in only
tation, tnostlg in the fort^^ of scrc~bLy junglc: lredr the: 11eacls of tlrosc vallvys descendir~g
and tamarisk-cones, is supl)nrtcd by sohsoil from tllc highest j~ortions of the range that
drainage. It thus shares the character of cultivation is carried on t~y nwrall ncatterecl
the route leading from Niya north-eastwards hamlels cof Irillmen.
(Sl~cet. No. 19); but here the foot of the Cor.i.t.r/iu~rx. A. 3. Sy rnbol A of
glacis of the mountains is overrun by coarse triangulation station to he inserted againnt
drift-sand, rising to duties of considcrable i3rl>alik-clrakil 15,500 ; also the ronte to it
height. 'l'lre water fout~d in wells along tlie from (!. !)5.
ronte is very bmcltisl~, and tho latter in 11.2. Tlre name L'~hltorg to be shown
consequence is scarcely ever used durin:; the against tlre triangulation station 10,690
late spring and suninler.
A,rtroao~riically ol.srroe~l lalitrdes.
l9OG-08. Kapa, Camp 99 (near gold ))its; B. 2)
above G~id;icire.
Kapa, Camp 99 (ile-dong hill station ; R. 2)
1913-16. Gudiche, Camp 4 (ITslrlung 11111 station ; D. '1)
NOTISS ON SHKET No. 21 (K.iKA-SH.iHW)
The survey shown on the southern cd~e by 311.. Clementi and \.arious Rnsrian exof
this sheet is confined almost \vholly to plorers.
the traverse made alotrg tlie I~igli load pass- IVitlt the escrl~tio~~ of the ground east
ing from east to west through the Kara- and north-east of Kumusli the whole of the
sliahr basin ; this was follo\ved in 1907 by area represented falls within the drainage of
myself and in 1915 by 14. Muhammad the Baghrash lake. The \vide expanse of
Yakiib. As the compilation of this sheet the latter, only roughly indicated in outline,
was adjusted to the positions adopted for affects the physical conditions of the whole
Turfin (Sheet No. 28) and Korla (No. 21. Kara-shahr basin. They are briefly described
D. 1)' the longitudes throughodt are affected in ,Serintiirr, iii. pp. 1178 sclq., where the
by the error in placing the latter town about historical topogiaphy of the district and the
15' 30" too far west, as explained in the l~eculiar conditions impeding cultivation and
Notes on Sheet No. 21. \I1hile at I