The Heavy Dust Then Settled Down, The Lighter Particles Remained In The Air, Forming A Dry Fog Of Such Density That Large Objects, Like Houses, Trees, Etc., Could Not Even Faintly Be Distinguished At A Distance Of A Hundred Paces.

The barometers suffered no change, the three I had with me remained in statu quo." "The heat is over by the middle of September, and after the autumnal equinox, there are a few days of what is best described as a dense dry fog.

This was undoubtedly the haze referred to by Marco Polo." (Major Sykes, ch. iv.) - H. C.]

Richthofen's remarkable exposition of the phenomena of the loess in North China, and of the sub-aerial deposits of the steppes and of Central Asia throws some light on this. But this hardly applies to St John's experience of "no deposit of dust." (See Richthofen, China, pp. 96-97 s. MS. Note, H. Y.)

The belief that such opportune phenomena were produced by enchantment was a thoroughly Tartar one. D'Herbelot relates (art. Giagathai) that in an action with a rebel called Mahomed Tarabi, the Mongols were encompassed by a dust storm which they attributed to enchantment on the part of the enemy, and it so discouraged them that they took to flight.

NOTE 5. - The specification that only seven were saved from Marco's company is peculiar to Pauthier's Text, not appearing in the G. T.

Several names compounded of Salm or Salmi occur on the dry lands on the borders of Kerman.

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