. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . been looking upwardto see what was above the ark. Therefore, the extremecone, the highest pinnacle of Ararat, was not the rest-ing place of the diluvian ark, but in all probability amuch lower part of the Ararat range. ANCIENT CITIES. In Armenia are many once famous cities, unknownto Americans because the hand of time has shorn themof their former splendor and many of them are buriedbeneath the accumulations of centuries. The largestof these were situated on the fair banks of the Tigris,comparat
. The Turk and the land of Haig; or, Turkey and Armenia: descriptive, historical, and picturesque . been looking upwardto see what was above the ark. Therefore, the extremecone, the highest pinnacle of Ararat, was not the rest-ing place of the diluvian ark, but in all probability amuch lower part of the Ararat range. ANCIENT CITIES. In Armenia are many once famous cities, unknownto Americans because the hand of time has shorn themof their former splendor and many of them are buriedbeneath the accumulations of centuries. The largestof these were situated on the fair banks of the Tigris,comparatively few on the Euphrates. Some citieshad their streets paved with fragments of sculpturewhen Moses was with Piiaraoh on the throne of of the walls, thirty or forty feet high, still remain,with solid foundations and towers rising at regularintervals with large arched gateways. Ani, the glittering city of gold and silver, was theimperial pride of Armenian sovereigns, whose pearlypalaces shone with beauty in the dazzling glare of thesunlight. Its streets were clean and richly adorned. RUINS OF ANCIENT ARMENIAN MONASTERIES AND PALACES, 30 THE TURK AND THE LAND OF HAIG. with decorations of nature and art. This ideal city isto-day a heap of colossal ruins. The venerable city of Van, anciently the city ofSemiramis, embowered on the eastern bank of thelake of that name, commanded a view of the wondrouscitadel towering on a rugged rock with a naturalamphitheater surrounding it and buried amid theloveliest vegetation and vineyards. Its cuneiforminscriptions are famous in history, as they have revealedthe secrets of the centuries to modern A. H. Sayce of Oxford, England, in hisJournal gives the translations of these venerable inscrip-tions along with other Armenian antiquities. Artaxata was once the capital of Armenia, whereKinor Tiridates received his crown from Rome. Afterseeking for years to stifle the incipient Church, he toobowed before the cross of Ch
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