[5] Abich, op. cit. part ii. p. 155. [↑]
[6] Abich, op. cit. part ii. p. 160. [↑]
[7] E. Clayton, The Mountains of Kurdistan, in the Alpine Journal, 1887. [↑]
[8] For some account of the geology of Azerbaijan see C. Grewingk, Die geognostischen und orographischen Verhältnisse des nördlichen Persiens, St. Petersburg, 1853. [↑]
[9] The best account of this country is that of J. G. Taylor, J.R.G.S. vol. xxxviii. 1868. I may also refer my reader to two articles by Dr. Butyka (Mitt. der K. K. geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien, vol. xxxv. 1892, pp. 99–126 and 194–210), who has collected the scanty notices of his predecessors and added his own experiences. I have made use of some unpublished material in the preparation of this part of my map; but it is far from satisfactory. [↑]
[10] See the inscription and translation by Professor Sayce in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiv. 1882, No. XXXIII. p. 558. [↑]
[11] Tozer, Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor, London, 1881, pp. 256 seq. [↑]
[12] H. Binder describes the route from Mosul through Amadia, Julamerik, Kochannes and Mervanen to Van (Au Kurdistan, en Mésopotamie et en Perse, Paris, 1887). See also W. F. Ainsworth, Travels in Asia Minor, etc., London, 1842, vol. ii. pp. 179 seq., with geological section from Mosul to Lake Urmi. [↑]
[13] For the geology of the Taurus between Diarbekr and Kharput an article by W. Warington Smyth in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1845, vol. i. pp. 330 seq., may be consulted. I do not understand his statement that the breadth of the main ridge of Taurus between Arghana and Kharput is nearly 50 miles. Loftus (op. cit. p. 344) has drawn a geological section from Bitlis through Sert to Jezireh-ibn-Omar. Like the Zagros, the range may be said to consist in the main of nummulitic limestone. [↑]