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$2 NO'llb:S ON IN1)IYIDUBL MAY SIIEETS [Chap. IV
olrtrical stntiot~s and intersertrtl I)t,ints tlie scruh and jnngle watered by the interlacing
tables in Apl,endix A (1nterntltion:tl Sheet beds of the Ii~cliikc-tlaryB, Tzirim and Kon-
N.K-45, r, o, s) intli~atc t h ~ corr~ct l ~ ~ ~ che-d:~ryi~. i - 011 tlie west tlris belt is hertioils,
based upon Clrmrnt~i's clirononic~trictxIly cleretl by t.lie sands of the Tablamak~n.
determinetl valne of Korla. A list of the Fronl the. east it is approached by the
positions \vl~irl~ Iiave been sl~o\vt~ in accord- Lop desert. An outlier of tire last-named
anre with their a~;tro~~o~~~i(~aIl~
observed divides t,l~e ancient continuation of the
latitt~des is give11 below.
Koncl~e-daryii conrse tolvards Lou-Ian, re-
1"or a tlescril~t,iou of the grotultl near presented by the drj- bed of the Korukthe
int.eresting ruined site of SltGrclr~~l;, darys, from f.he present conrse of the
sl~ow~~ in the N.W. corner of the sheet, see Konche-tlarj1 (C, D. 3).
Dcsrrf Cnfhay, ii. pp. 365 sqq.; Seritc Jiil, iii. 'Phr sn~all oases of Para-kun~ and
pi). 1182 sqq.; for a brief account vf the Tiltrnlik and those furtl~er south o\ve their
Ying-p'an site (D.8), at. the heat1 of thc existence to attempt?; of tlie present Chinese
ancient river-bed of tl~c K11rol;-tlnryi, and ad~ninistration to facilitate communicat.ion
of the e:lrl\ Chinese route t,hence traced bet\\.een the rontes leading along the northern
along tlie foot of tile Knlnk-tigh glacis to- and sor~thern sides of the Tirim basin. The
wards Korla, cf. Geogriy~h. Jot(r?~al, slviii. great ditlicultiee \vith which irrigation has
pp. 208 sq. The I~istorical topography of the to contend here, mainly owing to the fretract
along the Konclie-tlaryi below Korla quent slrifts of the river-beds, account for
is discussed in Serisdin, iii. 1). 1231.
the very limited extent ant1 quasi-peripatetic
iil'art from the sontlr-western corner of character of cultivation in this riverine zone.
hl~e Kara-sl~al~r basin (A, R. 1) this sheet Corrections. B. 3. lilliylr-Ll'l should
comlwises I)ortions of two very dist.inct areas. be in black.
To t,he north-east it sho\vs larrcl~ much- C. 1. Red line of pat11 to be extended
eroded hill-ranges of the Knrok-tigh and to
the south of tlre~n the wide belt of rirerine
north to Camp Alton-ghol and beyond.
Asfrononaically observed (iitifttrles.
1906-08. Dasoklio-bulak, Can111 281 ( 1). 1) ... . . . 41" 32' 18"
%ling-oi Site, N. of Shorclink, Camp 288 (A. 1 ; for position, see
Serintlin, iij. Plan 51 ) . . ... 41' 55' 48"
1913-15. Tikenlik, Camp 71 ( uear mosque; C. 3) . . . 40° 38' 26"
Ting-p'an, Can~p 73 (near ruin of Chinese rest-house; D. 3 ) 40' 56' 59"
Shindi, Camp 295 (on hillock, north of huts; D. 2) 41° 14' 31"
Hill-station N.W. of Suget-bnlak, Camp 298 (C. 2) 41' 26' 41"
Hill-Station S. of Tetim-b~ilak, Camp 301 (13. 2) 4.1' 26' 10"
NOTES ON SHEE'P No. 26 (VXSH-SHAHRI)
The surveys sho\rn in this sheet were
made from routes follo\ved on the second
and third expeditions. The delineation of
the mountainons ground in the south is
based on R. B. 1~21 Singh's triangulation of
1913 (see Appendix A, Stations and Inter-
sected Points in 69 J, 69 x ), the details of
his plane-table work being supplen~ented by
Rai Rim Singh's survey of 1906. The
traverses along the Charchan-Charkhlik
route, surveyed by myself in lYOG and
again under my immediate supervisiou in
1913, were adjusted to tlie position adopted
for Charkhlik, as indicated in Notes on
Sheet No. 30. Apart from the latitude
observations recorded belotv, use was made
also of 131.. Hedin's latitude value for Lashkar-satma
( B. 3 ) and that of Roborovsky
for \~isl~-sl~al~ri. 13n
The ground seen by me along my route
of 1906 is described in Descrt Cotjay, i. pp.
329 sqq.; the historical topography of the
ronte is discussed in Sevi?zdin, i. pp. 306 sqq.
The southern portion of the sheet. shows
tire outer spurs of the northernmost K'unlun
range, separated by extremely barren
valleys. None of the atreams which bring
down water from the snowy main range
Bee Gaiertific Betulls uf Bolorousky'r Erpedition (Russian), astronomical observations, p. 7.