Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 74- ERODED REMAINS OF TEMPLE RUIN AT mark original ground level and lowest masonry course of south-east and south-west 75- ENTRANCE GATE TO PILGRIMAGE SHRINE OF IMAM JafAR TAIRAN, CHIRA. REMAINS OF ANCIENT ORCHARDS 227 houses. In one place I could still make out a row of Jigdaor Eleagnus trees as planted in an orchard. An old* Taklamakanchi myself, I had no difficulty in distinguish-ing the fissured trunks of apricot and other fruit treesfrom the bleached debris
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 74- ERODED REMAINS OF TEMPLE RUIN AT mark original ground level and lowest masonry course of south-east and south-west 75- ENTRANCE GATE TO PILGRIMAGE SHRINE OF IMAM JafAR TAIRAN, CHIRA. REMAINS OF ANCIENT ORCHARDS 227 houses. In one place I could still make out a row of Jigdaor Eleagnus trees as planted in an orchard. An old* Taklamakanchi myself, I had no difficulty in distinguish-ing the fissured trunks of apricot and other fruit treesfrom the bleached debris of poplars once enclosing theseorchards. A fine piece of decorated cut-glass was thebest among the finds of small objects picked up on thatevenings wanderings. Even its hard smooth surfaceshowed grinding by the corrosive force of driving sand. Camp was pitched some three miles to the east, wherea belt of flourishing Toghraks, tamarisks and desert scrubmarked the line of an ancient river bed traced on my firstvisit to Rawak. There was a gorgeous sunset, and afterthe heat of the day the distant vista of the great snowyrange southwards was doubly refreshing. The nightbrought quite a sensation of chill, and next morning Ienjoyed a gloriousl
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