Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2)

CHAPTER I

DESCEND INTO TURKISH TERRITORY

October 24.--The track which we were following winds for some distance along the spine of the range. You cross and cross again from the one to the other watershed, overlooking now the open spaces of the southern landscape, now the narrow and encumbered cañon of the Araxes below the adjacent cliffs of the tableland. The rocky parapets an...