Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rassy plainsand through marshes, covered with tallreeds, which swarmed with wild hogs. The Persian mountains had now dis-appeared, and all around them, as faras they could see, stretched verdantplains, dotted here and there with afew tents, near which camels weregrazing. The verdure ceased, and theyfound themselves entering upon the salt-marsh through which the Etrek pursuesits sluggish course to the Caspian. To avoid other marshes, formed by TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN ASIA. 299 the overflowing of the river, they hadto follow a zigzag course, for the mostpart over a sandy tract, on which veryfew tents were visible. Crossing theEtrek with some difficulty, owing tothe softness of the bottom and itsflooded banks, they held a northward them in ruins. Some other ruins wereseen on the northern summit of Koren-taghi, but were passed in the night. On the night of the 19th the caravaAwas for a time in a position of greatperil. They were approaching the Lit-tle Balkan ridge, at the foot of which
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VIEW OF TEHERAN—CAPITAL OF PERSIA. course over a trackless waste, guidedduring the day by the sun and at nightby the pole-star. On the i6th of May the mountainousridge called the Korentaghi was dis-cernible in a north-easterly direction,and they passed the ruins known as theMesheni Misryan, which Vambery vis-ited on the following day, and found tobe an ancient fortress, consisting of asquare keep, and four towers, two of are many dangerous salt-marshes, whichare not distinguishable from the firmground in their vicinity, owing to alayer of salt which everywhere coversthe surface. Warned by the stoppingof the camels, all sprang down, andfound the ground quaking and yieldingbeneath them. Fear rendered everyone motionless until daybreak, whewthey slowly and carefully effected aretrograde movement, reaching the foot 300 TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN ASIA. of the hills about ten oclock nextinorning. Along the foot of these hills theyjourneyed until the evening of the 21st,when they reached th

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