It Is To This Part Of Pamir That
Marco Polo's Description Applies; More Than Any Other Part Of This
Ensemble Of High Valleys, This Line Of Water Parting, Of The Sarhadd And
The Aksu, Has The Aspect Of A Roof Of The World (Bam-I-Dunya, Persian
Name Of Pamir).
- H. C.].
[We can trace Marco Polo's route from Wakhan, on comparing it with Captain
Younghusband's Itinerary from Kashgar, which he left on the 22nd July,
1891, for Little Pamir: Little Pamir at Bozai-Gumbaz, joins with the
Pamir-i-Wakhan at the Wakhijrui Pass, first explored by Colonel Lockhart's
mission. Hence the route lies by the old fort of Kurgan-i-Ujadbai at the
junction of the two branches of the Tagh-dum-bash Pamir (Supreme Head of
the Mountains), the Tagh-dum-bash Pamir, Tash Kurgan, Bulun Kul, the Gez
Defile and Kashgar. (Proc. R. G. S. XIV. 1892, pp. 205-234.) - H. C.]
We may observe that Severtsof asserts Pamir to be a generic term,
applied to all high plateaux in the Thian Shan.[3]
["The Pamir plateau may be described as a great, broad, rounded ridge,
extending north and south, and crossed by thick mountain chains, between
which lie elevated valleys, open and gently sloping towards the east, but
narrow and confined, with a rapid fall towards the west. The waters which
run in all, with the exception of the eastern flow from the Taghdungbash,
collect in the Oxus; the Aksu from the Little Pamir lake receiving the
eastern drainage, which finds an outlet in the Aktash Valley, and joining
the Murghab, which obtains that from the Alichor and Siriz Pamirs.
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