64. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. III. 



'Journey from Arkceko, over the mountain Taranta, to Dixan. 



ACCORDING to Achmet's defire, we left Arkeeko the 

 15th, taking our road fouthward, along the plain, 

 which is not here above a mile broad, and covered with 

 fhort grafs nothing different from ours, only that the blade 

 is broader. After an hour's journey I pitched my tent at 

 Laberhey, near a pit of rain-water. The mountains of A- 

 byflinia have a fingular afpect from this, as they appear in 

 three ridges. The firft is of no confiderable height, but full 

 of gullies and broken ground, thinly covered with mrubs ; 

 the fecond, higher and lleeper, flill more rugged and bare ; 

 the third is a row of fliarp, uneven-edged mountains, which 

 would be counted high in any country in Europe. Far 

 above the top of all, towers that ftupendous mafs, the moun- 

 tain of Taranta, I fuppofe one of the higheft in the world, 

 the point of which is buried in the clouds, and very rarely 

 feen but in the clearefl weather ; at other times abandoned 

 to perpetual mill and darknefs, the feat of lightning, thun- 

 der, and of florm. 



Taranta 



