[9] It must, however, be noted that certainly in the case of Lake Van no islands are found far from the shore. The last rise in level took place about 1895; and in that year there was an earthquake at Adeljivas. The inhabitants of Uran Gazi on the slopes of Sipan assured us that this earthquake produced a rise in level of the Jil Göl, adjacent to the village. [↑]
[10] The subject is fully discussed by Abich (op. cit.) and by Dr. Sieger (Die Schwankungen der hocharmenischen Seen seit 1800, Vienna, 1888, and Globus, 1894, vol. lxv. pp. 73–75). Notable contributions have been made by Loftus (op. cit.), by Strecker (Zeitschrift der Gesell. für Erdkunde, Berlin, 1869, pp. 549 seq.) and by Dr. Belck (Globus, vol. lxiv. pp. 157 seq. and vol. lxv. pp. 301 seq.; Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Berlin, 1898, p. 414). [↑]
[11] It will, however, be observed that there is a discrepancy between the condition of Lake Gökcheh and that of Lake Van during the seventies and eighties. The testimony of General Schindler and of Dr. Rodler is in favour of the view that Lake Urmi was in agreement with Lake Van during the same period (Sieger, Die Schwankungen, etc., p. 18). [↑]
[12] Loftus, op. cit. p. 319. [↑]
[13] Globus, 1894, vol. lxv. pp. 301 and 303. [↑]
[14] Geographical Journal, November 1899, p. 513. [↑]
[15] Zeits. Gesell. f. Erdkunde, Berlin, 1869, vol. iv. p. 550. [↑]
[16] Indications of a similar rise in the norm of the level of Lake Göljik in the southern peripheral region have been noted by Prof. Josef Wünsch (Mitth. der K. K. geog. Gesellschaft, Vienna, 1885, vol. xxviii. pp. 15–17). [↑]