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JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. TAYLOR'sTravels in Kurdistan. 21 honesty of the African character, seem to have been displayed here to a greater degree than anywhere else during the journey, and eventually the Baron and his party were obliged to leave (after wasting a large amount of property in presents), without being able to effect the objects of the journey. The nearest they could get was about 15 miles from the summit, and an altitude of 4867 feet: but they made numerous observations, sufficient to enable Mr. Thornton to sketch a tolerably accurate map of the group of mountains. The top of Kilima-ndjaro,from this side, appeared as a broad dome with a rugged, blunt peak on its north-west side of nearly the same height as the summit and sloping away gently for a long distance; behind the eastern slope rose the very ragged peaked top of the east peak. The snow showed beautifully on all these summits. The principal top had a good thick, smooth, coating of snow, with patches and streaks lower down, lying in ravines. Mr. Thornton calculated the height to be 22,814 feet. The Jagga range of mountains on the southern slopes were covered with dense sombre forests; their line of summits is somewhat regular and defined, but cut through by many deep ravines and narrow valleys. The Madjame side of the cone was very steep, and Mr. Thornton saw three snow-slipsor avalanches gliding down the slope and creating clouds of snow-dust; but he saw nothing like a glacier. The rocks observed on the lower hills were vesicular, semiporphyriticlavas and other lavas of a spongy nature, showing the volcanic nature of these elevations. The party left Madjame by stealth in the dead of the night of the 4th September, to escape being plundered by the chief, and, after a long detour to the south, arrived at Mombas on the 10th of October. III.-Travels in Kurdistan, with Notices of the Sources of the Eastern and WesternTigris, and Ancient Ruins in their Neigh- bourhood. By J. G. TAYLOR, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul at Diarbekr. .tead, Jan. 9, 1865. THE information contained in the following paper is the result of three journeys which I made in 1861-63, with the sanction of Her Majesty's Government, in the consular district of Diarbekr, the capital of the modernPashalik of Kurdistan, and the seat of its Mushir or Governor-General. 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Much of this interesting country-particularly the more moun- tainous part-remains still unexplored; but I trust at some future time to be able to complete a workwhich, under the circumstances, is at present unavoidably defective. The province of Kurdistan, as it now exists, contains a great portion of the fourth Armenia, the whole of Arzanene, Zabdicene and Gordyena or Cordouene, and Northern Mesopotamia. With the exception of the latter, the general features of this tract are high mountains,enclosing fertile valleys, and an undulatingupland, bounded on the east by the Tigris, and intersected at several points by numerous streams, having their rise in the mountainous dis- tricts of the Pashalik, and emptying themselves into that river. The scenery in the highlands yields to no other portions of Turkey for variety and romantic beauty, while the banks of the numerous rivers and streams flow through charming landscapes and thickly wooded valleys, bathing in their course the bases of castles and towns famous in profane and ecclesiasticalhistory.