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CHAP. XIII.]
ANTI-TAURUS AND TAURUS.
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whole, like those of the eastern territory, being amidst the
groups intersecting one another in the interior. The different
directions of these numerous chains were, till recently, almost
unknown; but in the journeys made by myself, and subse
quently by other travellers, they have been followed at inter
vals in many different places, and therefore a general descrip
tion of them may now be given with a considerable degree of
accuracy.
The most remarkable peaks appear to be in the prolongation The Anti-
of the range which, at p. 68, has been already followed to the Tauru8 '
north-eastern extremity of the territory. This chain is desig
nated the Anti-Taurus by Strabo, 1 who also seems to have
included under this name the mountains of the Moschi and
their continuation along the western shores of the Caspian. 2
But as the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. elsewhere speaks of the source of the
Euphrates as being on the northern side of the Taurus, 3 it is
evident that he then applies the name to the chain northward
of Erz-Rum. We find, moreover, that even the Caucasus
itself was so called in the days of Pliny ; 4 and as it included
Armenia, Media, &c., within its branches, 5 it may be inferred
that Anti-Taurus had a local, and Taurus a more general
application, particularly as the width of 3000 stadia 6 (in many
places) nearly agrees with the space between the Cilician
Taurus and the northern abutments of the Western plateau
of that mountain.
In branching from the Caucasus this last chain skirts the'andUs^
eastern side of Imiretia, and afterwards, under the name of
the Perengah Tagh, it runs nearly south-west along the deep
valley of Ajirah, in the district of Tchildir, from whence it
turns southward and again westward along the valley of the
Acampsis, westward of which, bearing the name of the Kop
Tagh, it enters Lesser Asia.
1 Lib. XL, p. 521. 2 Ibid, p. 522. 8 Ibid., p. 527.
♦ Taurus mons, etc.: atque ubi se quoque exsuperat Caucasus. Hist. Nat.,
lib. V. c. xxvii.
8 Strabo, lib. XL, p. 491 ; Plin., lib. V. c. xxvu.
6 Strabo, lib. XI. pp. 490, 491: at 700 to a degree, this measure would give
about 260 miles, or nearly the mean distance between the ranges.