IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER VIII
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WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET 1~
ALA-DAGH, " the high mountain," shares with Kirechlu,
north-east of Erzerum, the honour of serving as the source *1
of the Euphrates, famous in the narratives of the Bible and the oldest historical records, and celebrated in song among innumerable peoples and races. Certainly the two branches, the western and eastern, contain about the same volume of water at their confluence, but the eastern is
considerably longer, and therefore the majestic river, the U
largest stream of hither Asia, and sister to the Tigris, s~
may be held to derive its origin from the melting snow- F~
fields of Ala-dagh, its turbid rivulets of rainwater, and its ~■
clear springs.
After varying fortunes on the Armenian highlands, the
Kara-su and Murad, the western and eastern Euphrates,
meet together just above the lead-mines of Keban-maden at a height of 2323 feet, and with combined force break
through the Armenian Taurus. In narrow defiles, between
steep, lofty walls of rock, the ever-increasing river forms a series of falls and cataracts, and at Birejik, where the river emerges on to the Syrian plain, and where many important caravan routes cross its course, its distance from the Mediterranean is only 145 miles. But from the mountain
ranges of Lebanon and the Syrian coast the land slopes q
eastwards, and therefore forces the great river, which at Rakka is a couple of hundred yards broad, towards the south-east, and to make for the sea by a much longer way. At Ed Deir the first palms grow on the banks of the Euphrates, and at Werdi the river is two-fifths of a mile
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