Word: simarkand
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence he returned by rail to Moscow and St. Petersburg...
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