Identifier: travelsingeorgia02port (find matches)
Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ng, at half-pastfive oclock we left the village of Goorchin Kala in a directionN. 60° W. and taking our course up the tortuous dry bed of aspring torrent, gradually ascended amongst the most arid andbarren summits of the mountainous hills; along which, as wewound our way, occasional glimpses of the fine expanse ofwaters opened on our right. This high upland journey con-tinued for about an hour and half, when we suddenly divergeddown again upon the flat plain, where we found, near to thelake, the village of Guljeki. At that point we altered our di-rection to S. 80° W., along a fertile valley three miles wide, andsmiling with well-populated villages. The principal place iscalled Kara Bagh, from its thick and dark green groves of trees.In half an hour we passed a village named Neschiff*, whence ourroad struck off north-west, by a gradual re-ascent of the moun-tains. Having marched that path, another hour found us againon the margin of the lake, which we had gained by a steep and /» .^
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.^ \\ . PLAIN OF SALMOS. 597 zig-zag pass. For rather more than four miles we now skirtedits edge, the naked mountains shooting up close on our left.This longer companionship by its bright side, seemed that ofour adieu; for almost immediately at the termination of thefour miles, we took leave of the lake entirely, turning off duewest, into the bosom of an extensive plain. High mountainsbounded it to the north; but all between, seemed rich, verdantcountry; and, on enquiry, I found I was now entering thewealthy district of Salmos. Having traversed its cultivated andlevel ground for nearly four miles, (though here and there itexhibited the too usual shades in the fairest Persian landscape,deserted villages, and partial waste,) we drew towards a narrow,but level dell, formed and divided by detached masses of therocky mountain stretching out into the plain. Our course laywithin it for about twenty minutes, when we arrived at theentrance of a fine rural-looking valley to the south-west, and

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