'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎344] (404/516)

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DESCRIPTION OF ARARAT.
of an animal. They then with a hand net prowl about the fields,
and the quail seeing a form, more like a beast than a man, permits it
to approach so near as to allow the hunter to throw his net over it.
The rapidity with which the Persians caught quails in this manner
was astonishing, and we had daily brought to us cages full of them,
which we bought for a trifle. In one of my rambles with a gun, I
met a shepherd boy, who laughing at the few birds I had killed,
immediately erected his horns, and soon caught more alive than I had
killed.
- During the long time that we were in the neighbourhood of Mount
Ararat, although we made frequent plans for attempting to ascend
it, yet we were always impeded by some reason or other. We were
encamped before it at the very best season for such an undertaking,
namely, during the month of August, and saw it at the time that it
has the least snow upon it.
The impossibility of reaching its extreme summit, even on the side
where it is apparently most easy of access, was decided (so we were
assured) some years ago by the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bayazid. He departed from that
city with a large party of horsemen, at the most favourable season, and
ascended the mountain on the Bayazid side as high as he could on horse
back. He caused three stations to be marked out on the ascent,
where he built huts and collected provisions. The third station was
the snow. He had no difficulty in crossing the region of snow, but
when he came to the great cap of ice that covers the top of the cone,
he could proceed no farther, because several of his men were there
seized with violent oppressions of the chest from the great rarefaction
of the air. He had before offered large rewards to any one who should
reach the top, but although many Gourds who live at its base have at
tempted it, all have been equally unsuccessful. Besides the great
rarefaction of the air, his men had to contend with dangers of the
falling icc, laige pieces of which were constantly detaching themselves
from the main body and rolling down. During the summer, the cap
of ice on its summit is seen to shine with a glow quite distinct from