composed of a deep, moving sand; and one side presents a vast chasm
tinged with smoke, from which flames have been known to issue.

[18] The precise spot is controverted, as will be seen in an
extract from the ingenious work on Scriptural
Antiquities, quoted in vol. xix. of _the Mirror_, p. 382;
where are notices of the mountain by Morier and Sir
Robert Ker Porter. The latter describes Ararat as
divided, by a chasm of about seven miles wide, into two
distinct peaks, and is of opinion that the ark finally
rested in this chasm.

[19] Edin. New Phil. Journ. By Professor Jameson. No. 23, p.
156.--Note to a paper by Humboldt, on the Mountain Chains
and Volcanoes of Central Asia. Ararat is referred to in
Genesis, viii. 4. Its distance and bearing from
Jerusalem, 650, N.E.b.N.; Lat. North, 39.40. Long. East,
43.50. Country, Erivan; Province, Mahou.--_From the
General Index to the Biblical Family Cabinet Atlas._

[Illustration: _Mount Ararat, from a drawing, by Sir Robert Ker Porter._]

Perhaps the most recent visit to this wonder of the East will be found
described in Mr. J.H. Stocqueler's Journal of _Fifteen Months'
Pilgrimage through untrodden Tracts of Khuzistan and Persia_, in 1831
and 1832:--

"We mounted our horses," says the enthusiastic traveller, "soon after
sunrise, and had proceeded for about four hours over numerous
acclivities, and through a territory of undulations resembling the