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The Wandering Scholar in the Levant

The Wandering Scholar in the Levant


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: .... CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES. First view of Euphrates--Crossing the river--The southern Kurds--The Kurdish question--Samosata--Where Euphrates breaks through Taurus--Monument on the Nimrud Dagh--Roman bridge at Kiakhta--Crossing Taurus--Snow and snowwater--Malatia--Cholera quarantine--A refugee from Khartum--Massacre in the Dersim--The northern Euphrates--A scientific frontier--The Roman lines--The way of the kings of the East--Egin--Divrik--Kemakh--Erzinjian--The Armenian question--Personal experience--Last view of Euphrates. Ever since we had left Aintab the path had been falling insensibly towards a purple hollow, far seen in the east. Beyond it interminable brown uplands rolled to the horizon, and all about stretched stony scrub, over which we rode hour after hour at that weary foot pace which travellers in such regions know only too well. Anxiously we looked for a glint of water to left or right or before, for between us and those brown slopes ran the fourth river of ParaFIRST VIEW OF EUPHRATES. 103 dise; but up to midday and for two hours after noon the arid monotony continued unrelieved. The track seemed to have ceased to fall and even to be taking an upward cast again, when lo! the table-land broke abrupt, as if cut with a giant's hatchet; a sliding arc of brown water gleamed a thousand feet below us--Euphrates at last! As we scrambled down the cliff a mighty roar rose up to meet us. The great river was in spate, sweeping round a majestic curve from the north and vanishing on a contrary curve to the south, a fuller, broader Rhine, rushing six miles an hour between towering banks which had weathered to fantastic pinnacles, and displaying a hundred metres' breadth of turbid flood, boiling in mid-stream over sunken rocks. It is no child's pl...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151389008
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151389005
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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