*
courfe any others on the globe.'1' ThefVdlga has been named among the
rivers^©f Europe, to which, the; principal part ofeiïicomfe hefengs.
Next Ih5cotffe^üe#éê»are'the Amur,-and the Maykiaungef.Ea.Os, If the
■ courfe; be i f i^ # ’dehneatÊd5i.the1iSampo^or;K^r%ripöQter,.-,and;1the
'Gauges?- compared ’with all whifih-the luglj*»t#§t M M M j |
dlminifiiech»heads;; *A iBQfe.pajtieular. account,^£ tbefefivets ,wilL, fye
given 'tai4er/*h^r^pp«ai^e»regio^s.j < .}
The A fiatic;roouatain^-are fetid_ not, to equal the eight. k
The tjralian jcbaiiv forming a; h o r a r y qf EHIPP'StrMs ^enn ^fclSr7
deferibed. The Altaian chain,pay be-cfefled apop^the m.Qd;hB I k
five on the globe,peaching from about the feventiefhiqfhe “u^ed.pid
fortieth degree of longitpdp eaft. from London, «r about^^^a^n^es,
.thus rivalling in length A p p l e s of,S. America"
, mountain's rarely Receive uniform appellations, qxc^t .from ^atfeq^ ■
highly civilized, the Altaian chain, ;beyond^ the fources^of the Te.niT^
.is called the mountains of Sayanfk; and ïöm th^fputh^ of the df
Baikal the mountains, of YablonnQy : branches of
.the country of the Techuks,^ extréme ‘bounties ofeATia., ''To t j
fouth of the Altaian ridge extends the elevated d&fart
running in a parallel direction from eaff to^jyeft ; and $Ee high fegteq
Tibet,may be included in this central' .prpmmenqe^ of Afia. "The
rTiain of Aiak may perhaps lie * regarded ‘ ai anpart W W^miaii,
brancbing,,to the fouth, -while the Taurus, np^w. ^nown By' fatiyit?
, names different cquntries, was by the . ^
great length», reaching, from c?P,e Kelidoni on the weft of tn^gmjpp qf.
Satalia, through Armenia, even to India: but thisTaft chain?"has not
. impreffed modpn travellers with the feme Idea, of its extent* ' Other
qopfiderable ranges of mountains are Bógdo, Ch^bgaij Bemr,-' thófe^ öf
Tibet, the eaftern and.wefternGauts óf IJmdöftaü ; and the Caucafiah
chain between the Eüxinè and Cafpian j all which will be afterwards
more particularly deferibed.
* See Pliny, Jib. y. c. 27, who fays that the Imaus, the Emodus, and the mountains■ running
through the centre of Perfia, including the Niphates of Armenia, and even the Caucafus ltfelf, are
all parts of the Taurian chain, which thence fpreads S. W . along the Mediterranean. ■ But this
great fouthern chain is unknown to modern geography* and feems rather theoretical in reducing,
mountains of various direffions; to oneferies. The northern xhain of Natólia was called Anti
Taurus by the ancients, ' 7 ‘ . ■ ‘