Photo by Vittorio Sella 



USHBA, THE MOST IMPRESSIVE OF ALL CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS 



Double-towered Ushba, stationed on the watershed which divides Asia from Europe, gives one of its 

 peaks to the former and the other to the latter. The Caucasus gave to that .great race which has ruled 

 the world through many generations its name. Long before the Christian Era, Greek merchants brought 

 back news of rivers runnmg with gold, in which the natives laid sheepskins to enmesh the shining metal. 

 They reported it a land of fertile valleys, where grapes and peaches grew wild, where minerals of every 

 description abounded in inexhaustible quantities, and where the Eldorado of earth existed. 



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