Geographical Notes
1879; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 19; Issue: 494 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/019556a0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Marine and environmental studies
ResumoAT the meeting, March 22, of the Russian Geographical Society, Col. Petroussevitch read a very interesting paper on his exploration of the Amu-daria, from Chardjui, in Bokhara, to the delta of the river, and on its former beds. M. Petroussevitch has arrived at the conclusion, based on a thorough levelling of the country, that the turning of the waters of the Amu-daria into the Sara-kamysh depression through one of the former beds, would not meet with great difficulties. This depression being, however, very wide and deep, the waters of the Amu River once arrived there, would form a great lake, and it would be difficult to direct them further to the Caspian. For this last reason it would be better to open a way for the waters of the Amu along one of its former beds which run southeast from the lake Sara-kamysh. All explorations make it very probable that in this way the Amu-daria could easily reach the Caspian. The Russian Trade Society sends, next summer, an expedition for the study of the lower parts of the Amu-daria, of the best direction for a railway to Central Asia, and of the possibility of a canal between the Amu and the Caspian. Several officers of the Russian general staff, with geodesists, a geologist, a botanist, an archasologist, and an artist will be members of this expedition. They will start from the Ural River, passing through Kara-tugay, Tashkent, and Samarkand; further they will go down the Amu to the Uzboi.
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