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The fort at Aulie-Ata, an addition

An addition to my lesson of 2006, from a reader's letter. The caretaker of the mausoleum wrote that in the Kokand time the fort had a well 41 metres deep, dug by prisoners, and the water from it tasted of iron. He showed my pupils a stone from the well's ring last year. Now it lies behind the mausoleum, in the weeds.

If anyone from the Heritage service reads this: please. A stone is not a fence post.

The Talas below Aulie-Ata, where the fort's wall once stood.
The Talas below Aulie-Ata, where the fort's wall once stood.