Imaus, Mountain

1638. Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique by Thomas Herbert.

And if we were to give every hill and Province their old nomenclations from Armenia to Indya, it would savour of presumption and prolixity; the quest is so obscure, so ship-wrackt in the gulph of dim oblivion, Heniochus (in Mengrellia) Gordiaei, or Ghibel-Noae in Haiton (in Iberia,) Niphates, Moschici (from Mesech, and whence of Moscovite,) Pariaedri, Coraxici, and Baris (in Armenia:) and those rabble of incertain Incolae: the Massagets, Taburaei, Suaebi, Bomaraei, Alinorsi, Cadusii, Comari, Sagazini, Caerasini, Pratitae, Paredoni, Cythaeni, Marucaei, Harmatatrophi, Mandradani, Sariphi, Turquemanni, Bochari, Gaznehi, and other Prouinces, all of them comprised in these foure Ararat, Caucasus, Taurus, and Imaus, at this day new-named Arar, Adozar, Taur, and Kopizath.

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Imaus, is one of the greatest Mountains, in the Greater Asia: it begins at Mount Taurus, near the Caspian Sea; and running Southward through the whole Continent of Asia, it divides the Asian Tartary into two parts and ends, at the rise of the River Ganges; where it again spreads it self East and West; and becomes a Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Great Mogul, (or Indostan;) having performed a Course of 450 German Miles, and taking various names from the Nations it passeth, as Althai, Belgan, Dalanguer, &c.

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Imaus, a famous Mountain of Asia. In the Desart Tartary, it is called Mothegar; and in the other, Belgian, and Althai, where the Kings of Tartary are entombed. In the Great Mogul's Country it is called Delanguer, and De Naugracut. Pliny, Strabo and Ptolomy mention it. It begins at Mount Taurus, near the Caspian Sea; and running Southward through the whole Continent of Asia, divides the Asiatick Tartary into 2 Parts, and ends at the Source of the Ganges, where it spreads again E. and W. and becomes a Northern Boundary to the Empire of the Great Mogul, or Indostan.