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valleys of the Arpatschai and the Terter. The hot-spring in| 
The system of the Baloglu or Dawagoesut is 14 wersts to the S. KE. 
of the Carial ; it is a similar group, with a flat erupted dome in the mid- 
dle, still furrowed by the lava- streams which poured down its sides. 
ixteen wersts beyond the Dawagoesu, is the extensive system of the 
Kizilboghasdag, with its broad crater called Maphrasch-tappa. The 
broadest lava-streams which, with their rough and stony surfaces, still 
cover a large portion of the table-land, have flowed from this crater. 
of vast thickness, by which the slope of the table-land is 
the Araxes 73 wersts further. At the southern foot of the 
a broad valley, 962 feet deep, has been excavated in th 
tion, where, at a distance of 15 wersts from the summit 0 
tain, is Giriis, the chief town of the district of Sangysur, on 1 
of the same name, at an elevation of 3900 feet, surrounded by 
tastic forms of pointed conical pillars of tuff, partly attached to the 
sides of the valley, and partly forming singular and isolated groups. 
Now if we draw a straight line from the summit of the ee oh 
at an angle of 58° W. of the meridian, and extend it to t 
. and Black Seas, it will strike, at a distance of 176 wersts to wee 
the summit of the Alaghéz. In this direction the line passes clos 
the extinct central voleano of the Daralaghéz called Dalychtap 
ian an pumice-stone, on the N.W. declivity of the 
Asmangan hills 20 wersts from Erivan. Lastly, the above mentioned 
line before reaching the Alaghéz also cuts through the Karnijerac 
— shed. Belly), The construction of this flat mountain, whic 
ie an 
{Goat Issi su dereb. t Deve ghieuz, or Camel's Eyes: 
Compare this with the Spey eae ie described in Hamilton’s "nike Minor, 
°§ Deli 250, in the are ich Hissar and Urgub. 
ik-tepéh (Hole-hill. 
