As The
Eastern Taghdungbash Stream Finds Its Way Into The Yarkand River, The
Watershed Must Be Held As Extending From
That Pamir, down the range
dividing it from the Little Pamir, and along the Neza Tash mountains to
the Kizil
Art Pass, leading to the Alai." (Colonel Gordon, Forsyth's
Mission, p. 231.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon (Forsyth's Mission, p. 231) says also:
"Regarding the name 'Pamir,' the meaning appears to be wilderness - a place
depopulated, abandoned, waste, yet capable of habitation. I obtained this
information on the Great Pamir from one of our intelligent guides, who
said in explanation - 'In former days, when this part was inhabited by
Kirghiz, as is shown by the ruins of their villages and burial-grounds,
the valley was not all called Pamir, as it is now. It was known by its
village names, as is the country beyond Sirikol, which being now occupied
by Kirghiz is not known by one name, but partly as Charling, Bas Robat,
etc. If deserted it would be Pamir." In a note Sir T. D. Forsyth adds that
the same explanation of the word was given to him at Yangi-Hissar, and
that it is in fact a Khokandi-Turki word. - H. C.]
It would seem, from such notices as have been received, that there is not,
strictly speaking, one steppe called Pamir, but a variety of Pamirs,
which are lofty valleys between ranges of hills, presenting luxuriant
summer pasture, and with floors more or less flat, but nowhere more than 5
or 6 miles in width and often much less.
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