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MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1908,

DR. W. R. LAMB, AMERICAN OCULIST AND OPTICIAN.

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Further communications have been Tencived at the Royal Goographical Society from De M. A. Stein, describing the resulta of his latest archæclogical and geographical investigations in Central Asia, They are dated Kliotan, July 15, 1906.

Early in December, 1902, Dr Stein, travelling from Turfen, he reached, and hu has all the moderes fos rements and apparatus, including the avai LAMB makes a specialty of Examining and Refräoting the Eyes and Fitting Karashahr, in the extreme northeast of the Ophthalmometer and Electic Ophthalmose po for examining and refracting the eyes in Tarim basio, and there he hogan his the most thorough sat perfect manner, and according to the htest and most approved - archeological explorations of the winter. methods es employed in the Metropolitan Eye Hospitals, by the hast oculists abroad. and the largest supply and greatest variety of all kina and styles of lensos and woent- Sit of ancient towns and of some size couldogs of the best qually ever brought to this Colony, including vor three thousand be tread at several points of the Great different sphero-eplit dries) and prismatic lenses made specialy to order for the correct Plain, now mainly a waste covered witli fan of astigmatism and other Puslar troubles which the ordinary spherical lenses serah and low jungle, which encircles the of glasses, require special Tenses of this kind, which are always made to order and are commonly card will not correct. The great majority-four fifths at least of those in need Bagrash lake on the north-witnesses of the solutely necessary for the perfect correction of defective vision and the permanent importance which the territory on ancient maintenance of perfect sight." Yon-ki had possessed in pre-Mahomedan besdache in the orbital region, inExmmation of the eyes or lids or weakness of the ocular seedle), Flower Garden and Lown.

Thosa ho are troubled with work or defective viclor, who suffer from eyesche, SOLE AGENTS for KISBIDAKE, MI-times. But the vicinity of subsoil water, muscles, or any of the numerous conditions due to eye strain and necessitating the use of YAO, and KIVIO-KOMATSU Coals. often impregnated with salts, and the glasses and most of these troublesare permanently cured by sovente refraction and pro effects of a climate ovidently lows dry hoperly adjusted lasses should avail themselves of the exceptional opportunity of having their eyes thoroughly and scientifically examined and refracted sud obtaining in other parts of the great Turkestan do- glasses of the right kind, as this opportunity for completeness of apparatus and supply pression, had completely destroyed what of lenses, thoroughness of examination, perfection of refraction which brings the ever structuras might have once stond vision op to the highest possible standard, and perfectly satisfactory results, is equal In NAGARAEL, MOJ, KAMATSU, WAKAHARU, within the still extant clay ramparte. willing to attest.

every respect to the beat obtainable suguhere abroad, as those who consült bùo are Kon, Oxa, Buangway, HoxaKONG, Chinese coins, picked up on the spot, made

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it-possible-to-letermine that those sitos bad TEL. ADDRESSES for above: IWASAKI, been scenpied down to the ninth century A.D. A far better field for systematic Code:-A1, AEC 5th Ed., Western Uniorercivations was offered by an extensive collection of ruined Buddhist shrines, locally known as Ming oi ("the thousand houses," which occupies some tow rock teraces at the easternmost not of the range overlucking the Karasub river from the south. Situated within easy revch of the high road leading from Karsshahr to Kork, the ruins had repeatedly wen visited by European travellers, including Dr Bells and within the last few years Professor Granwodole wengologion! UN- pedition, ou its pasango to and fron 816 Turian, bad affected excavations in sonc of the structures less baded under debris. The disposition of the ruins in long TOWS of detached cullas, varying in size, but all showing elos resemblance in plan and construction, facilitated the employment of a huge number of labourers. The first diggings showed that apart from the dea- tractive effects of rain and suow, tho temples had waffered much damage by a great conflagration which, in view of coin Bnds reaching down to the ninth cen tury A.D., may safely be connectent with the earliest Mahomedar invasions. But in spite of all the destruction mind by iconoclastic zoal and atmospheric in- Auences, there remained plentiful archwo- logical spoil & groat mačs of expclient 1368.clievo sculptures in stucco onco adering the temple walls, emerged from the deep OHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING || layers of debris filling the interior of the

larger shrines; frou vaulted pages en closing some-cellus were recovered some tine fresco panels which a finely burish bac saved both from fire and suuisture. Fines of painted pancleand delicately carved relievoa in wood, once richly gilt, bore proof of lavish adornment with vetivo gifts which those shrines had ones enjoyed. Consider ing the relatively late date döwer to which this sacred place had been occupied, the artistic excellence of many relievos, etc... was all the more striking. Notwithstand. ing some manifest difference of styles, these sculptures and paintings yet display 1603 od quite as clearly as the work of ancient Khotan, the predominant influence of Greco-Beddfist models from the extreme

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remains recovered were either in Indian script or in Uighur. Considering the great number of temples, the total absence of ruins which could with certain y be re- cognised as mouastic dwellings was a curious featuro of this site. But if the living seemed to have been averes from taking up their abode with the gods, it was otherwise with the dead, for cinerary

unearthed in m

urns and boxes

burs around some of the shrine and stupas. Dr Stein could not trace in the vicinity

remains pointing to early occupation eastwards, a dosolato waste of scrub and by villages. Yet the wide plain stretching

sand, could even now be easily brought under irrigation by cannis from the Kara- shahr river. Whatever changes desiccation may have effected in this region, it seems certain that the supply of water now avail- able in the Kurashahr river far exceeds the needs of the parrow strip of kind actually cultivated, chiefly by colonies of restless Tangans avileomi-nomad Mongela, and that only the Want of adequate popula

sion of cultiv-tod, aron. After the com- pletion of their tasks, by Christmas, it was a relief to the party to move up to the cold sunny hills of Khora, two marchos fpin Ming-oi whore information, elicited with much trouble from Korla shepherds and reticent Mongols, had led to the discovery of Buddhist romainà hitherto unnoticed. Surveyor Rai. Enl Singh hal rejoined Dr Steini að Ming-oi, after making his way from Turfan towards Kori, largely through previously unmap- ped portions of the Kuruk-tagh ranges The visit to the Khore ruins gare Rai Lal Singh an opportunity for useful surveys.on the range dividing the Kamahahir valloy. from the open plain of the Terim basin.

After a visit to the Inolake (ör Shahyar) river, the party marched over hithert masurveyed ground to Kuchar, Rai LalSingh following the course of that rivér through ita debatement from the mountains, while Dr Stein struck screes the bread belt of waterless cut to the tarbht groot. After

week's halt at the oasis of Kuchar, which was utilised for visits to the ruins and a rapid study of their spacially instructive features, Dr Stein was free by the close of January to resume his journey to the south of the desert

Inquiries set on foot by Dr Stain-singe leaving the Khotan and Keriya rosion in the autumn of 1900 bad resulted in in- formation reaching him about zavar 1 Tained sites in the, Taklamakan which had remalned unarpired so or; sed he was: "anzious to visit them before the heat aud the, season of sandstorms made work on that ground impossible. On Jaunary, 29 the party left the last shepherd. Buts in the Tarum jungle, and liftor a teying tamp of eight days across high dunes they reached the northern edgy of the dried-up delta, which the Kerija ziver:

some early period. There was nothing here to indicate the right shannel in the maza, of dry riverbeda, all half buried, by drift sand and often disappearing completelyamidet jungle, dead

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