[3] Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, etc., London, 1821, vol. i. p. 168. [↑]
[4] Wilbraham, Travels in the Transcaucasian Provinces, London, 1839, p. 277. [↑]
[5] For the explanation of this term see the chapter on Erivan. [↑]
[6] Fragments of the walls of this building alone survive. [↑]
[7] So the inscription on the south wall, as rendered by Brosset (Voyage archéologique, 3me rapport, p. 86; and Ruines d’Ani, p. 64). [↑]
CHAPTER X
TO ERIVAN
During our stay at Alexandropol it had required no small effort to detach our minds from the paramount object with which they were filled. Every day, every hour, which separated us from Ararat diminished the prospects of a successful ascent. We were impatient, and anxious to leap the intervening stages, like pilgrims almost in sight of their long-sought shrine.