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Show - - ' Ceeerta cf, Xsla. Jufct north nf the lllii'tilaja mount tajn lange In C)ilntc Tjirkeslan llesA a belt of land wAlch Is watered by' noith ilowInK rlve:s. v These, however, do not flow nnvwHie, but lose themselves them-selves In tin- Mind of the deseit." The woist i!ee-t nf Amerlcsln are mere chlld'b pin 'o Hip lUn-it conditions Jn this part ot Able In many places there were formertly, one thousand or two thousand yrais agna condition of soil and climate to that they could suppoit n rrnside;nblei population Thcie'are the remains ot villages and even citlen whlth must have had water In iiuge quantities tn places now far distant Iron! any reliable source of supply. So dry is the country coun-try that rutins of wooden houses which have been "xpoted to the weather for ten centuries or moie have hardly the beginning cf decay,. |