Reverting to the mountains, the speaker salt that Alashan was a whole area of traditions built around Genghis Khan, and he described many legends of ths famous ender and the mountains. Marco Polo also crossed this central area the agricultural 8, Dr. Cressey said tha within the Inst few decades, Chinese had entered and pushed back the nomadic Mongols in tks feast, expecially where the rainfall vichy more then pater wes. In the areas along the Yellow River, irrigation was being developed, canals having been dug, to lead the water from the Huang-ho and to spread it over the fields. It was quite possible to extend this fand.n good many hundreds of thou-ands would be taken care of, However, the soil was alkaline ind bad for vegetation and agriculture. The Central Ordos and Alashan, said Dr, Cressey, would always. remain a desert, nomadic country. There were large areas of unexplored territory as big as some of the provinees in China proper.
Dealing with primitive man, Dr. Cressey said that, near Ning! some of the French fathers had discovered the best evidence of primitive man in Asia, This was south of the area where Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews worked and wa probably older than any he had. found, The Ordos was likely to old more secrets of early man. Central Gobi, said the speaker, was too dey so that there never was a dime when man lived there: he only lived on the horders where there was moisture and in the past there was more than there ix to-day.
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