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CHASMS IN THE ANTI-TAURUS. [CHAP. III.
The Frat The stream continues nearly S.W., after passing the defile,
Anti-Tamus. as f ar as the ferry of Khostti, three miles below; and, near
the village of Pash-tash, it enters a vast rent in the moun
tains, with precipices on both sides, rising to the he iht of
1000 or 1500 feet. After passing this chasm, the river
makes a short bend to the S.E., but soon resumes the general
direction of S.W., and flows into the deep valley of Egin.
The mountains rise to about 4000 feet on each side of
this singular fissure, which is so narrow that it is crossed
by a bridge between lofty limestone precipices, seeming
to overhang the town, and, as it were, to threaten its
destruction. 1
Egfn * Below Egin, a town of 2700 houses, on the right bank,
the river maintains the general direction S.W. through the
mountain valleys, till it arrives at about five miles short of
Kebban Ma'den ferry and the lead-mines, where it is joined
by the Murad-chai, or su, being, at this point, about 270
miles from its source.
The Murad- The latter is the great eastern branch of the Euphrates ;
ehai. j r i ^
and, Irom its size, it ought perhaps to be considered the
principal stream. It rises on the southern slope of Ala Tagh,
a mountain about 9000 feet high, 2 and takes a general N.E.
course for about 24 miles, to Diyadin, a small town west of
Bayazid, and situated on one of the more elevated branches
of the Taurus, not very distant from the highest point at
Ararat. 3 After passing Diyadin, this great branch of the
Euphrates takes a W.N.W. direction nearly as far as Molla
'Osman, where it receives a feeder coming from the west.
Here the main stream pursues a S.W. course along the great
valley formed by the Dujik range on the north, and the
Supin and Nimrud Taghs on the south; receiving several
streams coming from the high grounds on each side.
After a course of nearly 120 miles, in the direction above
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. VI. Part II., p. 204.
2 Very little inferior in height to the Sapan Tagh.—Ibid., p. 418.
Previous to Mr. Brant's Journey, the springs of the Murad were supposed
to be close to this place.