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Title: Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924
Subjects: Asia, Central -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e upper jaw was rather contracted andmean as compared to the remaining characteristicsof the skull, slanting very far forwards where itended into quite a small curve in which the frontteeth were set. The teeth themselves wereextremely powerful and healthy. The bumpsbehind the ear channels were well marked. The whole skull, however, as seen from above,was more fully developed on its right side thanon the left ; also the same abnormal developmenton the right side could be noticed under theskull at the sides, where it joins the spinalcolumn. In a general way these skulls remindedone of the formation of the skulls of the presentBeluch. Another smaller Ziarat partly ruined was to befound south of the one we had inspected, thetomb itself being of less gigantic proportions,and now almost entirely buried in sand. Thetwo end pillars, however, remained standing up-right, the northern one being, nevertheless,broken in half The door of this Ziarat was tothe south of the building, and had a window
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o XXIV KALA-I-KAKAHA 247 above it. The walls had a stone foundation,some 2 feet high, above which the remainderof the wall was entirely of mud, with a perforatedwindow to the west. The tomb itself was8 feet long by 4 feet wide. A small squarereceptacle was cut in the northern wall. We had now come to the Kuk fort above thecity of Kala-i-Kakaha on the south of the moun-tain. With the exception of a large roundtower, 40 feet in diameter at the base, thereremained very little to be seen of this strong-hold. Sections of other minor towers and awall existed, but all was a confused mass of debris,sand and mud. From this point a splendid view was obtainedof the city of Kala-i-Kakaha just below, of whicha photograph from this birds eye aspect will befound facing p. 246 of this volume. There wasan extensive courtyard in the centre enclosed by ahigh wall, and having a tower in the centre ofeach of the two sides of the quadrangle. A beltof buildings was enclosed between this high walland a secon

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