TO THE PASSAGE OF MOUNT H^EMUS. 221 
been somewhat surprised that nothing like chap. 
Alpine scenery characterized the approach to y / - 
Mount H/EMus : nor is this range of mountains 
anywhere remarkable for grandeur of scenery 
or for great elevation. The defile here, how- 
ever, might be considered as possessing some- 
what of that character, but in no eminent 
degree : it was a hilly pass, full of woods of oak 
trees. In the midst of it we crossed a rapid 
river, called Kamtchi-su^, and saw, at a dis- A-amtcki-s^i. 
tance, a mountain entirely covered with snow ; 
but there was nothing to remind us of the 
greater Alpine barriers. The appearance of 
Mount H^mus may rather be likened to the 
Welsh scenery ; where every swelling mouniainet 
is insular ; and nothing is seen of that towering 
of broken cliffs and heights, one above another, 
which distinguishes the cloud-capped, congre- 
gated summits of the Alps and Pyrenees, and the 
regions of Caucasus and Lebanon. 
Upon quitting this defile, and descending 
towards a large scattered village, called Chaligh 
Kavack, which we reached in four hours from 
(2) The meaning of this word, as interpreted for us, was said to 
dignify " water falling into the Black Sea;" perhaps as distinguished 
from the rivers flowing towards the Archipehigo. 
