Reginald W Sturt (letters, photographs)

Two letters (both typescript) from Reginald W Sturt to the [Royal] Central Asian Society, dated 15 March and 27 March, 1928. Enclosed with the former letter are four photographs (b/w).

The letters discuss the ruined city of Polocheng, "shown on most maps in about Lat. 44° 16' 21" and Long. (approx) 119°E, and 3,300 feet above sea level. "Polocheng" is the Chinese for the Mongolian "Borohoto", also locally called "Gesu Wen Cheng" (letter, 15 March, p. 1).

Three of the four photographs (each with captions verso) are views of a smaller ruined city, Pai Ta Tsi, "situated on the north bank of the Chagan Muren (River) within some 20 to 30 miles of the Khingan Range watershed, at the conserving point of four lonely and deserted valleys" (letter, 15 March, p. 2), showing a white pagoda. The fourth photograph shows a thirteen-tiered pagoda from another location.