652 | of 4 AZ EM «D EE. -bastw 
ee due Sl Le uk, TTC le SH}: . 41. On: the, same, 4lbéb there was 
a chain which prevented entering in or going 
D) un) Le 5 D ÿ Je Es, Lo Li lois out, and.this chain was drawn after -Iscander 
by _Kisri °° 
ai] ass Re > pbe Jess Ji LS ol (es But.as ‘to the Abgwab — or gâtes ; they 
PA 5 des “alai AE ar. bal ŒÛI S 5) icu Passages in e moun ais, or 
tiesé. _mountains: ate great, =s0'. that it, is said 
they a are the second G a | si for their extent 
; - Li e! 
K, w s Ven 1 TQ 
he defeat of dog <Khan ul 5ls,L who, in the beginning of the year 986 — 1578, /at the, head of. 
Inunierous Pérsian troops! had madé à terrible inroëd into the Réntiets w the” Turks, ‘and ‘ho was soonmet 
by .Ser-asker: Mustafa-Pasha. The result of this unfortunate :war was, that the Ottoman: troops-fronr alt- 
sides broke into the frontiers of Persia; and under the conimand! of. their valiant eaders-éxténded- their, con. 
quests in different directious., till at last they reached Tabriz, the capital of Aderbidjän. In the first expe- 
dition ‘of the Turks against Togkmagk- Khan, Othman-Pasha-was -numbered-among the- brave: gencrals:. of. 
Mustapha and was lappointed commandant, or rather governor in Shirwân. Soon after that, he undertook an 
! expédition to/Daghistan, seized Derbend : and established himself ; in ‘those quarters, In the mean time, the ini- 
trigues at thetSublime Porte, did not ;slumber. The dignity” lof Grand- viar passed successively from hand 10” 
. hand; Sinän-Pasha and Farhäd-Pash were raised to the great office one after the other and guided the. 
affairs of the campaign in Aderbidjan. The brillant Succéss-of Othwan ‘Pâsha, in Daghistan-and Shirwan;, 
‘acquired him the favour of Sultan Murad who ordered him to pass! to the Crimea , in order to humble 
the pride of Muhammed Ghéraï. Othmäñ Pâsha obeyed the order, and having made over his authority to 
Djafar-Pasha the late: sovernor-of. Anatoliæ, who:-had accompanied Farhod-Pasha in his expedition to Ader- 
_bidjan — set. off for. the Crimea, After putting, affairs, there in order, he proceeded to Constantinople where 
he was raised to the office of Grand - Vezir. He, died in a new expédition to Aderhidjan after having taken 
p Tabris, — Read Hammer Hise de l'Empire Ottoman Liv. XXX VIIT; 
my edition of JÉs | | p.102. 
80 See for the explauation GE this passage our ; remark 2. to Past V, — Dedeh-Afendi seems to mistake 
thé chain at the gate for the chain at the entrance of the harbour. 
81 We find consonous names in the orte of Eastern writers which denote the extensive chain of moun- 
tains 1hat,runs; from: South -east to North = west! betweenthe Caspian -and the Black :Sea. In the Arabic geo- 
graphers wé.find,the mountain of: Gkabgh, Gkäbgk or Gkabugkyrinithe Armenian language weivhave- Khab- 
gakh; 1he Persians (and'the ‘Anabs also. following them). uséd -the: word GÆ4f, which -expressed à fabulous 
mountain on which Zall,.the father .of. Ruste’m, was.nourished by Simurgh,-and beyond’ which” “hved Fadjudj 
and Ma’djüdj. The obvious identily of all these three names, leads us to think that they. mean nothing bat 
the Caucasus of ‘the ancient geographèrs. 1f we ‘dare conjecture that the ancient copyists might bave .com- 
iittéd la mistakélin Writiig Cauwéasus For Éatitafus the” no of the word would be ‘clearly ‘éxplained 
in the Persian expression Gouhi-gk4f or, vulgarly Chcéf,:.i «16 the! mountain, of Cf; but, sinc we, find.the 
word in the be Greek writers, we can not rely on our entree unless partiality.,: dictate toçus that! the 
word, in such writers, perhaps was corrected at subsequent periods, en the false pranunciation « of the 
-Word''was: alreadyl established ‘on thébasis ‘of à usus est te Un e 1 DE à be' also that the ancieit’ Persians 
«in receivingithe name from the :Greeksmistook! the 5 for Le io owr sd rod ii 
The Mussulmans, however, feariug to injure their own tradition in + to the amôund of Fédjudj and 
Mâdjudj consider! .Gk4fto be) différent from Ghabgk; Suphosi rigs the fofni'er-to béa chain” of:mountains sis 
rounding the sidi à world, ser mie Es the dominions of er Ru ru 
na nt y HO CE ("1 
ol LS { 36 Al Sie : PR) LTA LR q? : it 1 
