=====+=================================+=====+===============================+=====+=========================== Year.| Lake Van. |Year.| Lake Urmi. |Year.| Lake Gökcheh. =====+=================================+=====+===============================+=====+=========================== 1806 |Jaubert attests a gradual rise | 1811|Morier attests a relapse. | | | in the waters, threatening | | The former island of | | | Arjish and the suburbs of | | Shahi has become joined | | | Van (Voyage en Arménie, | | to the mainland by a | | | etc., p. 139). | | swampy isthmus during | | | | | the last two or three | | | | | years (Second Journey, | | | | | p. 287, seq.). | | | | | | | | | 1812|Progressive relapse of | | | | to | about 10 feet during this | | | | 1829| period attested by Monteith | | | | | (J.R.G.S. 1833, | | | | | vol. iii. p. 56). | | | | | | | 1838 |Brant attests a relapse which, | 1834|Relapse attested by Fraser | | | according to the natives, has | | since his last visit in 1822 | | | effected a gain of one mile | | (Travels in Kurdistan, | | | in ten years to the plain on | | pp. 47 seq., and Narrative | 1830|A low level, perhaps | which Arjish stands (Journal | | of Khorassan, p. 321). | | a minimum, is attested | R.G.S. 1840, x. p. 403). | | | | by Monteith. | | | | | The canal to the 1838 |Loftus records a rise on native | 1838|Autumn. Rise attested in | | Zanga is an insignifi- | authority, commencing during | | general terms by Rawlinson | | cant runnel, supplying | the winter. In twelve | | (J.R.G.S. 1840, vol. | | the river with the | months, viz., by the winter | | x. p. 8) and more precisely | | smallest portion of | of 1839, the lake is said to | | in 1839, by Perkins | | its waters (J.R.G.S. | have risen nearly 6 feet. In | | on native testimony | | 1833, vol. iii. p. 43).