[2] Such is the view of Suess. [↑]
[3] Besides the great work of Suess already cited, I may refer my reader to Dr. Edmund Naumann’s admirable study: Die Grundlinien Anatoliens und Centralasiens, in Heltner’s Geographische Zeitschrift, ii. Jahrgang, 1896, pp. 7–25, with two maps. Also to a paper by the same author in the Report of the Sixth Int. Geog. Congress, London, 1895, pp. (661)–(670). [↑]
[4] For a comprehensive account of the salt deserts of Persia, extending over 500 miles of country, I may refer my reader to Lord Curzon’s Persia, London, 1892, vol. ii. pp. 246 seq. [↑]
[5] This must be a most interesting approach to Armenia from the side of Tiflis, and is worth suggesting to the lover of unbeaten tracks. [↑]
[6] Karabagh is portrayed to us from various points of view by Smith and Dwight, Missionary Researches in Armenia, London, 1834, letters ix.–xiii.; Radde, G., Karabagh in Petermann’s Mitt., Ergänzungsheft No. 100, Gotha, 1890; Abich, H., op. infra cit., part iii. p. 4; Madame B. Chantre, À travers l’Arménie Russe, Paris, 1893, chs. iv.–viii. [↑]
[7] This demarcation has been adopted by Herrmann Abich, who, however, would include the Karadagh. He speaks of the elevation which may be traced from the neighbourhood of Ardabil in Persia through the volcano of Savalan all the way to the mountains south of Lake Van as the “natural physical frontier between Armenia and Azerbaijan” and as the “southern border chain of Great Armenia.” But he is pressing the word chain a little unduly. See Geologische Forschungen in den kauk. Ländern, Vienna, 1882, part ii., introduction, pp. 10 and 11. [↑]
[8] Karl Koch, Reise im pontischen Gebirge und türkischen Armenien, Weimar, 1846, pp. 203–4. [↑]
[9] Herrmann Abich, Geologische Forschungen in den kauk. Ländern, Vienna, 1882 and 1887, part ii. pp. 20–21, part iii. p. 81. [↑]