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time, to turn further from the main road than I had already 
done; but, should I return from mj more eastward travels by 
this route, I determined to visit the places he mentioned. 
Our way lay to the south-east, over a well-cultivated plain, 
abounding in populous villages ; but towards the close of our 
day’s march, we had to cross an irregular group of rocky hills ; 
which rise from the level country, perfectly detached from any 
of the mountain-chains around them. The road was not very 
smooth ; but such paths were bowling-greens to some my good 
horse had carried me over; and we jogged cheerily on, till we 
reached our proposed quarters, the village of Devaloo ; a distance 
of thirty miles from the capital of Erivan. 
At nine o’clock, next morning, we started over the same sort 
of rugged ground, still keeping on to the south-east, for about 
four hours ; when, arriving at a narrow stoney gorge, in the 
branch of this knot of hills which projects westward, while the 
rest of the group stretches to the south-east, we passed it; and 
continued our way across the plain, till the sun began to decline 
over the ridge behind us. This quarter of the level country 
was not inferior to that on the other side of the knot of hills, in 
the culture of the land, and the number of its villages ; at one 
of the most considerable of which, we arrived about five o’clock. 
We were to lodge there for the night; and my mehmandar 
presented his orders for our entertainment. The name of the 
place is Yengashah ; and it is six agatches, or forty wersts, from 
Devaloo. We found its inhabitants busily engaged in separating 
their corn from its straw. The operation was effected by four 
or five buffaloes, treading on each spread-out quantity, in a 
circular movement; and, so entirely were the people absorbed 
in the employment, our firman was not attended to, for three 
hours at least. From which rustic indifference to arbitrary 
