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INDEX. 
, rAGB. 
Central Turkestan, sketch map of i6o 
Chadir Kul 167, I74 
Chahak Basin 243 
Chalai Range 84 
Chani Well 264 
Charjui, sand dunes south of 57 
Chau Bineh Basin 243 
Cherkasof, Baron 4 
Chernichcf, Director 64 
China 5, 10 
Choate, Hon. Joseph II 4 
Chulak Range 62 
Chu River 97 
Relations to Issik Kul m 
Circles, stone 7 
Cirques 90-9' 
of Trans-Alai Range 13S 
Climate in Tian Shan 7° 
of antiquity 311 
of Persia 227 
oscillations 17 
Climatic changes, influence on Persia.... 253-271 
Cobble deposits near Krasnovodsk 35 
spit on a ridge near Zuyk 32 
Darak kurgan 146 
Dasht-i-Lut, northern border of 308 
terraces on borders of 267 
Davis, Wm. M 3, 4, 5. 7, 16, 17, 18 
On a Journey Across Turkestan 23-119 
Deformation and erosion, period of 93 
de Morgan, M. J 7, iS 
Depopulation of Iran 308 
Deposition and erosion in Persia 246 
and uplift, long continuance of 
processes of 170 
period of 92 
Desert of Despair 232 
Desert plains, aggrading rivers of 55 
plains of Turkestan 54 
proportion of 5 
Desiccation 6 
Progressive 6, 13. 16 
Diversion theory 288 
Dolmens 7 
Dorandt 6 
Drowned valleys 108, 144 
Dsungarian Ala-tau, outline of 11 
Dubosof, Mr 4 
Dungsugot 211 
Duruigar Valley, terraces of 52 
Dushak 257 
Earthquake at Kuchan 236 
Eastern Persia, literature concerning 221 
Outline of report upon 222 
Physiography of 225 
Quaternary climatic changes of 273-275 
Elburg Mountains 17 
Erosion, amount of 182 
and deformation, period of 93 
and deposition in Persia 246 
of mountains 247 
Escarpments of Alai Valley 135 
Evaporation 6 
Extinct lake of Zorabad 239 
Fergana 7, 60, 123 
Fergana Basin 181 
Fergana lowland plains 17, 151 
Firuza Basin 47 
Fluvial or lacustral theory 290 
Gedeonof , General 4, 64 
Genghis Khan 12 
Geography, physical 16 
Geological history of Iran Basin 232 
of Northeastern Persia. 233-245 
Geological series 162 
Ghiaur Kala 10, 18, 56 
Glacial and lake level advances, fluctuations 
explained 143 
epochs 16, 14s, 184, 186-198 
erosion in higher ranges 89 
geology of Kara Kul Basin 140 
period in Asia, subdivision of 183 
period, subdivision of 88 
period, summary of 199 
records in Tian Shan 84-92 
Glaciation 182 
of Asia compared with that of 
America and Europe 200 
Glaciers 6, 16, 182 
God-i-Zirrah 283 
Golden Horn 26 
Gorge of Western Kugart 99 
Gravel deposits 250 
Gravels of Sistan 291 
Gruen wedel 14 
Gulcha 149 
Ilaji Hussein Beg Valley 267 
Helmund, delta of 281 
Helmund River 276 
Heri Rud River 258 
Hcri Rud Valley 237 
Hilkof, Prince 4 
Hindu Kush dam 257 
Horsts, theory of 82 
Hungary, mounds in 7 
Huntington, Ellsworth 3. 4. 5, 16 
On a Geologic and Physiographic Re- 
connaisance in Central Turkestan.. 159-216 
On the Basin of Eastern Persia and 
Sistan 217-315 
Ice-cap of Russia 17 
Imperial Academy of Sciences 4 
Imperial Geographical Society 4 
India n, 14 
Inscriptions, pictographic 7 
Interglacial intervals 17 
Iran, ancient climate of 302 
depopulation of 308 
Iran Basin 230,232 
Irtysh River 79 
Iskender Kala 10 
Ispairan Valley 207 
