Now they are from ten to eleven miles apart.

Those I have seen, as yet, look like villas, with balustrades and Italian roofs, which has a curious effect in Turkestan and the neighborhood of Persia.

The desert extends up to the neighborhood of Uzun Ada, and the railway stations form so many little oases, made by the hand of man.

It is man, in fact, who has planted these slender, sea-green poplars, which give so little shade; it is man who, at great expense, has brought here the water whose refreshing jets fall back into an elegant vase.

Without these hydraulic works there would not be a tree, not a corner of green in these oases.