Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ents were about 7 feet by 4 feet by3!^ feet, and they were extremely simple, ex-cept that the upper face was ornamented by aseries of superposed rectangles diminishing insize upwards and each of the thickness of onebrick, and the last surmounted generally by aprism. The photograph facing page 214 shows thenorth-western portion of the graveyard, with theentire eastern aspect of the Zaidan fortress. I tookthis photograph for the special purpose of provinghow high the sand has accumulated over manyportions of the
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ents were about 7 feet by 4 feet by3!^ feet, and they were extremely simple, ex-cept that the upper face was ornamented by aseries of superposed rectangles diminishing insize upwards and each of the thickness of onebrick, and the last surmounted generally by aprism. The photograph facing page 214 shows thenorth-western portion of the graveyard, with theentire eastern aspect of the Zaidan fortress. I tookthis photograph for the special purpose of provinghow high the sand has accumulated over manyportions of the graveyard, as well as over a greatportion of the city. The particular spot whereI took the photograph was somewhat protectedfrom the north, hence the low depression, slightlymore free from sand than further back wherethe sand, as can be seen, was able to settle downto a great height. The upper portions ofseveral graves can be noticed mostly buried insand, and by the ripples on the sand and thecasting of the shadows (the photograph wastaken in the afternoon when the sun was west). Intkkiok of Zaidan Fortress.
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