On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.5

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In working out the details the following books treating of Central Asia have been used in addition to Mr. Watters' volumes and Beal's translations:—(1) Chavannes, *Documents sur les Turcs Occidentaux* (St. Pétersbourg, 1903). The map inserted has no scale marked, but the author informs me that it is drawn approximately to the scale of 1 in 250,000, or 39.4 English miles to the inch; (2) same author, *Voyage de Song-yun dans l'Udyāna et le Gandhāra* (École Fr. de l'extrême Or., Hanoi, 1902); (3) Sven Hedin, *Through Asia* (London, 1898, with maps of the Pāmīr and the Tarim basin); (4) Stein, *Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan* (London, 1903, with a map of portions of Chinese Turkestan); (5) Bretschneider, *Mediæval Researches* (London, 1888, Trübner's *Or. Ser.*, with a map of the middle part of Asia); (6) India Office *map of India*, including the countries to the north-west, on the scale of 32 miles to the inch.