64. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER : 
CHAP. III. 
tourney from Arkeeko, over the mountain Taranta, to Dixan. 
CCORDING to Achmet’s defire, we left Arkeeko the 
A 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 fhrubs ; 
the fecond, higher and fteeper, ftill more rugged and bare ; 
the third is a row of {harp, 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 cleareft weather; at other times abandoned 
to perpetual mift and darknefs, the feat of lightning, thun- 
der, and of ftorm. | 
TARANTA 
