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Identifier: cradleofmankindl00wigrrich (find matches)
Title: The cradle of mankind; life in eastern Kurdistan
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wigram, W. A. (William Ainger), 1872-1953 Wigram, Edgar Thomas Ainger, Sir, 1864-1935
Subjects: Kurds Kurdistan -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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crossing a range that much resemblesour own Sussex downs on a large scale, we arc camping on anabsolutely level plain of great extent—the Gawar. This word, presumably Kurdish, appears to mean a levelplain surrounded by mountains ; and it is used, singly and incombination, more than once in the neighbourhood. Butour new camping-place is the Gawar par excellence, The Level. It is the bed of an ancient lake, and sohas a general family resemblance to the morfa ofTremadoc in North Wales, though the hills surrounding itare considerably higher than Snowdon; and the changefrom mountain to plain is so abrupt and obvious that onecan say definitely to a few yards where one leaves the oneand enters on the other. The point is further emphasized,by an old pebble beach. The plain measures about sixteen miles by ten, and is in form an oval with pointed ends, the long axis running nearly north and south. It is absolutely treeless, save for a few poplars round the villages that are scattered over 176
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