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kara'ba'gh.
[chap. vii.
KariMgK r ^^ ie ne ighbouring province of Karabagh lies between the
rivers Araxes and Kur, and chiefly occupies the western por
tion of the angle formed by their confluence: that is, it lies
between 38° 50' and 40° 50' north latitude, and between
46° 8' and 48° 10' east longitude. At the widest place, be
tween Nakhchivan and Elizabethpol, it is about 120 geo
graphical miles broad, and it extends nearly as far westward
of the meeting of the two rivers: it has a superficies of about
5250 square miles. 1 With the exceptions of a narrow valley
and a richly cultivated plain, which extends from the right
side of the Kur to the estuary of the Kara-chai, the province
its surface; is hilly, or rather mountainous, being traversed in different
directions by branches from Mount Ararat, one of whose
peaks, the Sara-dara, is 5000 feet above the Caspian Sea. 2
Besides two of inconsiderable size, Karabagh contains the
lakes of Khanno-ghell, Tchopno-ghell, and Kara-ghell; and,
in addition to the Araxes and Kur, the interior is watered by
the Karghar, the Terter, the Intcha-chai', the Kara-chai', the
Bazar-chai, and some twenty other considerable streams. 3
its soil ; In some places the soil is clayey or sandy, but the rest is a
rich black loam ; 4 and except in some of the low parts bor
dering the rivers, the climate is cool and healthy at all seasons
of the year.
and products. The mineral productions are naphtha, copper, emery, and
salt. The animal productions resemble those of Shirvan,
but are far more numerous; and the abundance of forest
game, such as bears, elks, panthers, wolves, foxes, and jackals,
caused the woods in this district to be the favourite hunting-
ground of the late prince-royal. The rich pasture-grounds
are intermixed with vines, fruit-gardens, and fields of tobacco,
silk, flax, wheat, maize, millet, and cotton; and most of the
other parts of the district are covered with those fine forests
of oak, plane, poplar, cypress, elm, ash, birch, fir, beech, and
walnut trees, from which the Tartar appellation Black Garden
was derived. 5
1 Aper9u, &c., Tome III., p. 255 to 258.
8 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 259 to 263. 4 Ibid., p. 253.
5 Ibid., p. 255 to 258.