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Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ter its very walls were razedby Corbulo governor of Syria (towards the close of the thirdcentury of our era,) when Tiridates, its dispossessed sovereign,was restored to his crown by the Emperor Nero, he rebuiltArtaxata in more than its ancient splendour, and in gratitude tohis benefactor changed its name to Neronia. The ruins are distant from Erivan about nine miles, over abad and stony road continually rising and sinking, according to the uneven surfaces of the projecting mountain terminationsover which it is drawn, and at about two oclock in the day,we reached the city itself It happened to be the anniversaryof the deaths of Hossein and Hassan, the martyred sons of All;and the whole Sunni population in the place, were screaming theirlamentations within the mosques, also clad in mourning. Whilepassing on to my quarters, amidst this terrible outcry of a wholepeople in sorrow, I could not but muse on the sort of instinct inhuman nature, to now and then lower the fire of its constitution
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MOURNING OF HOSSEIN AND HASSAN. Q23 by a few voluntary tears. In short, to what else can we assignsuch regular seasons of weeping as we read of in heathen story,commemorating the deaths of Adonis, and of Thammuz, weptby Syrian maids ? Here also, is an annual time of mourningordained by the Mahomedan sages; and I do not doubt itssalutary effects on the usual burning blood of his sons^ so far to the East. I found my lodgings in the house of an Armenian, and myapartments singularly clean ; I may say singularly, that peoplebeing considered the dirtiest in Asia: but a man must havevisited Asia, fully to appreciate the superlative in such a com-parison ! The house was admirably situated, on a declivity ofthe steep bank of the Zengay; and from its roof I had a mostbeautiful and extensive view of the luxuriant country on theopposite side, its gardens and groves, the fortified residence ofthe Sardar ; and beyond all, the far-stretching plain, closed withthe double-headed and sublime Ararat. * O

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