Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . and was eagerly clambering over the badlybreached walls of the west face, I could not escape afeeling of disappointment. The crumbling walls andbastions were massive enough in dimensions, but theirinferior construction seemed to suggest a relatively latedate. The whole formed an irregular quadrangle, with thewalls facing east and north-west about 250 feet long on theoutside, and those to the south and west somewhat oblong towers jutted out at the corners, while thecurtains betwee
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . and was eagerly clambering over the badlybreached walls of the west face, I could not escape afeeling of disappointment. The crumbling walls andbastions were massive enough in dimensions, but theirinferior construction seemed to suggest a relatively latedate. The whole formed an irregular quadrangle, with thewalls facing east and north-west about 250 feet long on theoutside, and those to the south and west somewhat oblong towers jutted out at the corners, while thecurtains between them were guarded by bastions near thecentre. The tower on the south face was particularlymassive, projecting close on ninety feet beyond the line ofwall, and rising even now to forty-three feet in height,it suggested a donjon (Fig. no). The construction ofthe walls was as irregular as the shape of the whole of hard stamped clay formed the lower portions ;above rose masonry of coarse sun-dried bricks, smaller insize than in the ruined shrines first examined, with layers of ^-.^ ^.
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