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CHERCHEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHERCHEN , a See also:

town of See also:East See also:Turkestan, situated at the See also:northern See also:foot of the Altyn-tagh, a range of the Kuen-lun, in 85° 35' E., and on the Cherchen-darya, at an See also:altitude of 4100 ft. It straggles mostly along the See also:irrigation channels that go off from the See also:left See also:side of the See also:river, and in 19oo had a See also:population of about 2000. The Cherchen-darya, which rises in the Arka-tagh, a more southerly range of the Kuen-lun, in 87° E. and 36° 20' N., flows See also:north until it strikes the See also:desert below Cherchen, after which it turns north-east and meanders through a wide See also:bed (300-400 ft.), beset with dense reeds and flanked by older channels. It is probable that anciently it entered the disused channel of the Ettek-See also:tarim, but at See also:present it joins the existing Tarim in the See also:lake of Kara-buran, a sort of lacustrine " ante-See also:room " to the Kara-koshun (N. M. Przhevalsky's Lop-nor). At its entrance into the former lake the Cherchen-darya forms a broad See also:delta. The river is frozen in its See also:lower course for two to three months in the See also:winter. From the foot of the mountains to the See also:oasis of Cherchen it has a fall of nearly 4000 ft., whereas in the 300 M. or so from Cherchen to the Kara-buran the fall is 140C ft. The See also:total length is 5oo-600 m., and the drainage See also:basin See also:measures 6000-7000 sq. m. See Sven Hedin, Scientific Results of a See also:Journey in Central See also:Asia, 7899-1902, vols. i. and ii. (1905–1906); also TAKLA-MAKAN.

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