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the purest water from the very apex;
and that, notwithstanding the snow,
which we saw still lingering in the
chasms, roses blow there all the year
round. The Agha of Deliktash assured
us, that every autumn a mighty groan is
heard to issue from the summit of the
mountain, louder than the report of any
cannon, but unaccompanied by fire or
smoke. He professed his ignorance of
the cause; but on being pressed for his
opinion, he gravely replied, that he be-
lieved it was an annual summons to the
Elect to make the best of their way to
Paradise. However amusing the Agha's
theory, it may possibly be true that such
explosions take place; the mountain ar-
tillery described by Captains Lewis and
Clarke, in their travels in North America,
and similar phenomena which are said
to have occurred in South America, seem
to lend some probability to the account.
They have also a tradition, that when
Moses fled from Egypt, he took up his