At About Seven Hours Above The Lake, This River
Is About The Size Of The Cam Near Cambridge; It Regularly But Moderately
Overflows In Spring-Time, And Is Full Of Carps And Barbles; But The
Turkmans Have No Implements Of Fishing.
Besides the Afrin there are
numerous smaller rivers and sources, which water the valleys.
One of the
must considerable of these is the river of Goul, which takes its rise
near a Turkman encampment [p.634] of the same name, about six hours
distant from St. Simon, to the W. by N. in a small lake, about one mile
and a half in circumference, and joins the waters of the Afrin, eight
miles from its source. This beautiful little lake is so full of fish,
that the boys of Goul kill them by throwing stones at them. The river
turns several mills near Goul, and five or six more at six miles
distance, at a place called Tahoun Kash, near a spot where the chieftain
of the Ryhanlu, Mursal Oglu Hayder Aga, has built a house for his winter
residence, and has planted a garden. On the right bank of the Afrin,
about three quarters of an hour distant from it, and at three hours ride
to the N.-westward of the tent of Mohammed Ali, my Turkman host, are two
warm springs at half an hour's walk from each other. I only saw the
southernmost, which is strongly impregnated with sulphur, and made my
thermometer rise to 102°; it constantly bubbles from a bottom of coarse
gravel, in the middle of the bason, which is about twenty feet in
circumference, and four feet deep.
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