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KARADAGH.
203
CHAPTER XIII.
IjCave Anni—Armenian Villages—Gumri—Return to Kars — Mount Ararat—
Kars to Bardes—Wild Mountain Scenery to Id—Liesgaff—Mountain Passes-
Vale of Tortoum—Beautiful Scenery—Kliizrah—Yaila of Euduk—Descent to
Ispir.
Tuesday, June 14.—We would willingly have remained at
Anni another day to examine its ruins with more detail,
and to copy some of the Armenian inscriptions; but we had
been warned against robbers from Karadagh if wo spent
the night here ; and having already so far disregarded the
advice which had been given us, we thought it prudent to
be off early this morning. We accordingly started soon
after six, passing over an elevated table-land, consist-
ing chiefly of volcanic scoriae and lapilli, about 200 feet
above the bed of the river, passing close to the village of
Aras Oglu, three miles north of Anni. From thence our
road led us over similar ground in a N.E. direction to the
village of Maurek; here also we observed the ruins of an
old church in the same style as those of Anni, but with only
one pier standing, and half of the arch springing from it ;
about a mile to the W.N.W. was also a chapel of the same
age, with a conical roof. Near Maurek we rejoined the high
road from Kars to Gumri, when our direction changed to
E.N.E., and we had several fine views of Mount Ararat in
different positions on our right, with the mountains of
Georgia in front.
A little way beyond Maurek I found a thin bed of pale
yellow sand, filled with numerous shells, resembling those
near Khorasan, overlying a bed of concretionary calcareous
marl. These beds all dip a little to the N.W., under the
black peperite, with which the neighbouring hills are cap-
ped, and contain no traces of volcanic matter. I shall not
here enter into any discussion of the manner in which these
geological events took fdace, or attempt to explain the
KARADAGH.
203
CHAPTER XIII.
IjCave Anni—Armenian Villages—Gumri—Return to Kars — Mount Ararat—
Kars to Bardes—Wild Mountain Scenery to Id—Liesgaff—Mountain Passes-
Vale of Tortoum—Beautiful Scenery—Kliizrah—Yaila of Euduk—Descent to
Ispir.
Tuesday, June 14.—We would willingly have remained at
Anni another day to examine its ruins with more detail,
and to copy some of the Armenian inscriptions; but we had
been warned against robbers from Karadagh if wo spent
the night here ; and having already so far disregarded the
advice which had been given us, we thought it prudent to
be off early this morning. We accordingly started soon
after six, passing over an elevated table-land, consist-
ing chiefly of volcanic scoriae and lapilli, about 200 feet
above the bed of the river, passing close to the village of
Aras Oglu, three miles north of Anni. From thence our
road led us over similar ground in a N.E. direction to the
village of Maurek; here also we observed the ruins of an
old church in the same style as those of Anni, but with only
one pier standing, and half of the arch springing from it ;
about a mile to the W.N.W. was also a chapel of the same
age, with a conical roof. Near Maurek we rejoined the high
road from Kars to Gumri, when our direction changed to
E.N.E., and we had several fine views of Mount Ararat in
different positions on our right, with the mountains of
Georgia in front.
A little way beyond Maurek I found a thin bed of pale
yellow sand, filled with numerous shells, resembling those
near Khorasan, overlying a bed of concretionary calcareous
marl. These beds all dip a little to the N.W., under the
black peperite, with which the neighbouring hills are cap-
ped, and contain no traces of volcanic matter. I shall not
here enter into any discussion of the manner in which these
geological events took fdace, or attempt to explain the