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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...miles by 1 mile, which are enlarged by the annual inundation of a larger area, consequent upon the melting of the summer snows. M. Benderski, however, the Bussian topographer, who first saw the lake in 1883, and was attached to the Pamir Boundary Commission in 1895, told the English members of the latter that the lake had greatly diminished in size in the interval, and that he expected it finally to disappear. If the same process has been going on for centuries, we may perhaps find herein an explanation of the apparently extravagant dimensions assigned to the lake (assuming it to be identical with the Dragon Lake of legend) by the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims. As regards its elevation, Wood (whose instrument must have been defective) registered the height by boiling-point at 15,600 feet. Later measurements (Trotter, 13,900 feet; Littledale, 13,980 feet; Boundary Commission, 1895, 13,390 feet) have familiarized us with more modest figures. Touching the name of this lake, the title Victoria Lake, suggested rather than given to it by Wood, whose discovery coincided with the year following upon Her Majesty's accession, seems on the whole to have won most favour, at least with Englishmen. The alternative name of Sir-i-kol, which was mentioned to Wood by the Kara Kirghiz, has been very plausibly explained as referring to the station or camp at the "Head of the Lake;" although some have preferred Sarik or Sarigh-Kol, i.e. Yellow Lake. In the Anglo-Bussian Pamir Agreement of March, 1895, the Bussian name for the lake is given as Zor Kul. Faiz Bakhsh, the surveyor who was despatched to the Pamirs in 1870 by Sir D. Forsyth during the first Yarkand expedition, called the lake Hauz Kalan, i e. Great Pool, or Kol-i-Sikandari, Alexander's Lake--a name which ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236026231
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236026233
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 91 gr


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