ARARAT. 
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On the 21st July, the servants and equipages arrived from Teflis, 
and after having made them perform a quarantine, they were admitted 
to pratique; two days after we proceeded towards Tabriz, by making 
the first stage at Kinakir, a village on the heights, about three miles from 
Erivan. The morning of our arrival, I was greeted with the appearance 
of a Tatar from Constantinople, who brought me intelligence, that Mr. 
Ellis, invested with a special mission to the King of Persia, would follow 
him in a few days. I determined therefore not to proceed farther on 
my journey for the present, and accordingly fixed on a more elevated 
spot for the camp, and finally settled myself there. Full in front of my 
tent Ararat reared its hoary head, and with the extent of its immense 
base, filled up the whole side of the panorama to the southward. In 
the fore-ground of the intervening distance, between the camp and the 
base, was the village of Kinakir with its church, and the hills over it, 
and then the rich campagna of Erivan enlivened by the windings of the 
Zengui and Araxes. To the northward and westward were the moun¬ 
tains of Aligez and Karniarekh, which furnished us with an almost un¬ 
ceasing supply of clouds, wind, and rain, during the whole of our stay. 
On the 6th August, I made an excursion to the lake of Sivan, as 
