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TABRIZ TO ARZ-ROUM. 
light; and in the interior of which a square of twenty feet was parted off 
by a wall three feet high, for the residence of the master, while the 
remainder was reserved for his cattle. The costume of the people was 
changing fast; and the black sheep-skin cap of Persia was scarcely seen. 
The day was overspread with clouds till near sun-set, when it cleared 
away a little to the Northward, and shewed us the sublime and 
venerable mountain of Ararat. It bore N. 10 E. of our station, and 
presented a stupendous mass to our view. The Persians told me that 
it was eight hours distance from us; and added many a story of its 
wonders. Sach as—that no one, who attempted to ascend it, ever 
returned; and that one hundred men who had been sent from Arz- 
roiim by the Paclia , to effect the undertaking, all died. The Armenian 
priest assured me, with a very grave face, that the ark was still there. 
There is a smaller mountain on the same range, bearing N. 30 E. which 
is called by the Turks, Cochuk Agri-dagh , as the larger Ararat is 
called Agri-dagli. Ararat is the Macis of the Armenians. The 
sources of the Euphrates are twelve hours from Agajik , in a direction 
of N. 50 W. by the peasant's pointing. The Armenians told me 
that they had a Zeeauret , or place of devotion, at the sources called 
Wes Kionk. 
8th. We left Agajik with five men, who, according to the custom, 
accompanied us out of their frontier into the Turkish territory. At 
about two miles and a half from Agajik is another Armenian village, 
called Kilse , from the ruins of a church (Ecclesia) , which forms a 
conspicuous object among its mean huts, being well-built with a fine 
white stone, with arched doors and windows. Even in its ruins, how¬ 
ever, the present poor inhabitants still contrive to keep up a place of 
worship within the interior. 
About three miles and a half N. 30 W. from Agajik , are the 
boundaries of the Persian and Turkish territories marked by a ruined 
tower, situated in the centre of a valley. 
As we were feeding our horses, the person whom we had sent to 
Bayazid (to intimate our approach to the locum-tenens of Ibra him 
