| said by the natives to have | | Journal Geol. Soc. | | had become a peninsula. | commenced in 1850. Arjish | | 1855, p. 307). | | The canal to | is connected by a passable | | | | the Zanga seems to | isthmus to the mainland for | 1856|Rise may be deduced from | | have been scarcely | eight months in the year | | N. von Seidlitz who | | operative at all. | (op. cit. p. 318). | | seems from a distance to | | | | | have seen Shahi, an island | | 1863 |Strecker records a continuous | | in October (Petermann's | 1891|Relapse has continued. | rise during the years prece- | | Mitt. 1858, pp. 228, 230). | | Trees planted | ding his writing, as evidenced | | | | thirty years ago | by Turkish officials | | | | on the margin of the | of his acquaintance (Peter- | | | | water at the island | mann's Mitt. 1863, pp. 259 | | | | of Sevan are now | seq.) | | | | standing some 50 | | | | | feet away, and some 1875 |A maximum at about this | | | | 7 to 10 feet above | period may be inferred from | | | | the lake level. (Belck | the accounts given by Bishop | | | | in Globus, vol. lxv. | Poghos of Lim to Dr. Belck | | | | p. 302). | (Globus, vol. lxiv. p. 157), | | | | | and by the Rev. Mr. Cole of | | | 1898|Rise dating back | Bitlis to Dr. Butyka (Globus, | | | | several years is at- | vol. lxv. p. 73). From this | | | | tested by Belck and | period there appears to have | | | | Lehmann. The trees | been a gradual relapse until | 1898|Günther chronicles a rise | | alluded to above are | 1892, and possibly later. | | during the last two years | | now standing in the | | | on native evidence | | water (Zeitschrift 1898 |Evidence of Oswald and myself | | (J.R.G.S. November | | für Ethnologie, 1898 | infers a rise during the | | 1899, p. 510). | | p. 414). | last few years.