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A long mile from this Sepulcher and higher up into the Aire, is the high peak of Damoan (by Strabo in his 11. lib. call'd Iasonia,) whose top (shaped like a Pyramid) surmounts all the other parts of Taurus; up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty, and from whence wee could discover the Caspian Sea, eightscore long miles distant thence; 'tis above..."

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=== 1638. Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique by Thomas Herbert. ===
<blockquote>A long mile from this Sepulcher and higher up into the Aire, is the high peak of Damoan (by Strabo in his 11. lib. call'd Iasonia,) whose top (shaped like a Pyramid) surmounts all the other parts of Taurus; up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty, and from whence wee could discover the Caspian Sea, eightscore long miles distant thence; 'tis above compos'd of sulphur, which causes it to sparkle each night like Aetna; a pleasant object to the eye, but is so offensive to the smell, that it requires a nosegay of Garlick in the ascending; hence, most part of Persia and Chaldaea has their brimstone: the reason why we rode up was out of curiosity, to see the baths so generally resorted to, so excellently famous. Three are incircled with strong stone-walls and two are open. The first are for those of quality, the other in common: and hither in August, people flock apace from remote parts, decrepit and diseased in mighty multitudes.

Now, whether this hill take denomination from Damoan, five farsangs thence, or the Towne from it I cannot argue; but from the signification a Second plantation, the Jewes have a Cabala that Noahs Ark rested here; not only from the super-eminency of the hill, but Vines and Zone fitting a seminary better than any part of the Armenian mountains. Besides, this hill where Taurus rises up higher than elsewhere, is part of Paropamisa, & where Becanus places the Ark, denying that Ararat is in [[Armenia]], though Hayton to make it be beleeved, calls it Aremnoē. But how improbable so ere that be, this seemes more congruous, that at this Towne of Damoan and mountaines about it, the Idolatrous Tribes removed by Salmanasser, were here seated; those especially of Dan, Zebulon, Assur, and Nepthaly; the other of Ruben, Gad, and halfe Manasses, by Tiglath Pillesar about Lar, Iaarown, and other parts of Chusistan. For albeit Ptolomy makes Gozana (in his 6. lib. 18. chap.) a branch of Oxus, in above 40 degrees: and at Hara, and Hala, and Ghabor Cities of Medya, neere the river Gozan sacred story saies they were placed by the Assyrian; it cannot be that Gozan mixes with Oxus, since no part of Medya is within three hundred miles of it. Gozan then is in Medya; and seeing that Araxis waters Armenia from Ararat, and runnes into the West side of the Caspian sea; this river here of a great bredth streaming from Taurus both into Medya and Hyrcania (cut in many small rivolets by the people to draw her many wayes) must needs be Gozan, and the Jewes inhabiting here for many ages confirme my conjecture, saying also that they were brought hither captives, and here have rested during many overtures and changes of the [[Persia|Persian]] Monarchy.</blockquote>

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