ABSTRACT
Between Korla and Kara-shahr there lies, a half-day’s easy journey to the west of the latter town, a little hamlet consisting of sarais. The mountain range rises in the north-west, and here, too, possesses the same desolate and forbidding character as marks the southern spurs of the Celestial Mountains. About two hours distant from the sarai there lies an ancient town with its fortified walls in good preservation on one side only. The town is a long rectangle, intersected on its western side by two parallel mountain chains, running from north to south. On these mountains innumerable temples, both large and small, are to be found, whilst in the south-east there are a great number of Persian domed buildings which serve as burial stūpas (Plate 48).
