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AMONG the immense mass of ancient Chinese records and manuscripts brought back from the buried cities and caves of ancient Khotan, in Central Asia, and now stored in the British Museum, is one called the Tun-Huang-Lu, a topographical description of part of Khotan itself. This little geography was written in the time of the Tang dynasty, in the seventh century, but probably contains matter from earlier authors.
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OFFORD, J. Musical Sand in China. Nature 95, 65–66 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095065b0
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