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TACKAT MOUNTAIN, 
peaks ; and thence, when the returning dove appeared with the 
olive-branch, and the unstrung bow shone in the cloud, from 
that protecting tent of the Lord the fathers of all the future 
families of mankind took their downward way ; not with the 
brand of incensed justice impelling them, but called by Almighty 
Mercy, “ to be fruitful, to multiply, and to replenish the earth.” 
Having journeyed a short way from the monastery, we crossed 
a little river, designated by three different names, the Harpa-sou, 
the Kara-sou, or the Ashtorick; but being drawn off in a thou¬ 
sand directions for the purposes of agriculture, a very small 
quantity of the waters flow to any distance in their original bed. 
At half past three o’clock, we reached the village of Kerim 
Arklee, a picturesque spot standing close under an insulated 
hill surmounted by the ruins of a fortress, called Lewanna. 
The distance, three farsangs from Eitch-mai-adzen. My quarters 
for the night were in the house of the governor of the district 
of Kerim Arklee, a stretch of country extending westward to 
the shore of the Arpatchia river, the boundary of the Persian 
territory in that direction. My entertainer duly honoured the 
firman of the prince under whose hospitalities I still travelled; 
and I felt, in drawing towards the confines of Persia, the sen¬ 
sations of a man parting finally from a spot where acquaintance 
were become friends, and the passing hours of his sojourn had 
been most pleasant to him. 
October 31st. — I took my leave of my host this morning at 
eight o’clock, and resumed our route in the same direction as 
yesterday. As we advanced, a high and pointed mountain rose 
immediately before us, being indeed the most conspicuous of 
any I could yet discover, forming the western range from Ararat. 
It has received the appellation of Tackat, from its resemblance 
