Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 87. RUIN OF SAND-BURIED DWELLING, N. XX., NEAR NORTHERN END OF NIYA SITE, BEFORE of dead mulberry trees in >. ROOM IN RUINED DWELLING, N. XX., NIYA SITE, IN COURSE OF EXCAVATION. CH. XXIII FINDS IN ANCIENT DWELLINGS 277 Kharoshthi records on wood, whether letters, accounts,drafts, or memos, turned up in almost every one of thesedwellings, besides architectural wood-carvings, householdobjects, and wooden implements illustrative of everydaylife and domestic indust
Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China . 87. RUIN OF SAND-BURIED DWELLING, N. XX., NEAR NORTHERN END OF NIYA SITE, BEFORE of dead mulberry trees in >. ROOM IN RUINED DWELLING, N. XX., NIYA SITE, IN COURSE OF EXCAVATION. CH. XXIII FINDS IN ANCIENT DWELLINGS 277 Kharoshthi records on wood, whether letters, accounts,drafts, or memos, turned up in almost every one of thesedwellings, besides architectural wood-carvings, householdobjects, and wooden implements illustrative of everydaylife and domestic industries, such as weaving instrumentsand boot-lasts (Fig. 86). Though nothing of intrinsic valuehad been left behind by the last dwellers of this modestPompeii, there was sufficient evidence of the ease in whichthey had lived, in the number of individual rooms providedwith fireplaces and comfortable sitting platforms (Fig. 89).Remains of fenced gardens and of avenues of poplars orfruit trees could be traced almost invariably near thehouses. In some cases where dunes had afforded protec-tion, the gaunt, bleached trunks in these orchards, chieflymulberry trees, still stood upright as high as ten totwelve feet (Fig. S^). Elsewhere they
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