'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.' [‎347] (407/516)

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boars. In these and on the banks of the river are also immense flocks
of wild fowl. On the mountain itself there are many eagles, and a great
variety of hawks.
Tournefort seems to turn into ridicule (vol. ii. p. 147.) the report of
travellers who mention the existence of anchorites on Mount Ararat,
but within the great chasm there is a cave, in part built up, in which it
is believed a hermit used to live. The wilds of this mountain give refuge
to all the rogues and outlaws of the surrounding country ; and there is a
cavern between the great and little Ararat, in so strong a situation, that
not long since some turbulent Gourds who had taken possession of it,
held it in despite of the Serdar and his forces.
At length, Mr. Ellis having sufficiently recovered to permit us to
travel, we proceeded to Tabriz and crossed the Araxes at Gerger. Be
tween this place and Maraud we found in several places in the middle of
the road, mill-stones, which having been cut from blocks in the moun
tains, had by a slow progress been rolled thus far on their way to
Tabriz. Xenophon mentions, that the inhabitants on the Euphrates
were digging mill-stones, which they afterwards fashioned and convey
ed to Babylon for sale. * The stones we saw had an axle-tree of wood,
and had been there already a considerable time ; and their owners
whenever they might be in want, would probably make another effort
to get them forwards. A stone of the same description 1 remarked
during all the time we were at Tabriz, not two hundred yards from
the walls of that city.
As we proceeded on our journey, the numbers of sick in our camp
rather increased than abated. Of thirty Indian cavalry that formed the
body guard, only two attended us on our entry into Tabriz, all the
others being unfit for service; and we had not long been arrived before
we had to deplore the loss of one of our companions. Captain Snod-
grass of the Bombay army, a fine young man in the bloom of life,
whom we buried in the Armenian church. Having paid our respects
# Anab. lib. i. c. 2.
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