'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎124] (157/450)

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MOUNT ARARAT.
[CII. XVII.
right of the Jezira road is the Yaylak or summer
encampment of Zakho on the Zouzan mountains,
Mount Ararat in Armenia;—lie is not aware of tliis tradition,
which places the ark on Mount Judi, or Cardoo, which is
evidently the Keron here mentioned 11 . Hussein Aga maintained
to me that he has with his own eyes seen the remains of Noah's Ark.
He went to a Christian village, whence he ascended by a steep
road of an hour to the summit, on which he saw the remains of a
very large vessel of wood almost entirely rotted, with nails of a foot
long still remaining. In the third volume of Assemanni, p. 214,
occurs the following expression: " There is a monastery on the
summit of Mount Carchi, or Ararat, St. Epiphanius attests that,
in his time, remains of the ark still existed, and speaks of relics of
Noah's Ark being found in ' Cardiserum Regiones.' "
a Josephus, on this subject, says, "However, the Armenians call
this place Airoflatypiov, the place of descent; for the ark being
saved in that place, its remains are shown there by the inhabitants
to this day (§6). Now all the writers of barbarian histories
make mention of this flood and of this ark; among whom is
Berosus the Chaldean ; for when he was describing the circum
stances of the flood he goes on thus :—* It is said there is still
some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the
Cordyscans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen,
which they take away and use chiefly as amulets for the averting
of mischiefs.' Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the
Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnasias, and a great many more, make
mention of the same. Nay, Nicalaus of Damascus, in his 90th
book, hath a particular relation about them, where he speaks thus;
4 There is a great mountain in Arme7iiaover Ninyas, called Baris,
upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the
Deluge w ere saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came
on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber
were a great while preserved. This might be the man about
whom Moses, the legislator of the Jews, wrote.' "—Winston's
Josephus, b. i., ch. 3. (London, 1820.)
In the passage cited Jjy Josephus it is to be observed, that
while both his authorities speak of Armenia as the country in
which the ark rested, Berosus speaks of its remains being at the
" Mountain of the Cordya;ans.'' This proves, and there are
many authorities to the same effect, that the mountains of
Corduene, or Gordyceari mountains, which Malte Brun places