Show I West Oldest City in the W World WorldOn WorldOn orId On Slopes of Mt Mi Ararat Mt ML Ararat in Armenia is now generally gen gen- I bell believed eYed to have been the spot where Noah oah left the ark Not until 1829 did a mountain climber succeed in scaling it its steep ascent Dr Parrot an englishman achieved that distinction For centuries the mountain had defied the tha efforts of ot mountain climbers cUmbers and the Christian ecclesiastics of Armenia asserted as an article of faith that Jehovah had made the peak his bis earthly home homo and that no human could possibly possibly possibly bly reach the tho top and escape divine vengeance When Dr Parrot declared that he hue had accomplished the ascent tho the priests reused refused to believe him and they cling to this attitude of skepticism skepticism cism In spite of the tho fact that dozens of explorers have since stood on the top of Greater Ararat and gazed out over Armenia from an altitude of feet I IJames James Bryce rycE former British ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- I antler to the United States climbed I Greater Ararat As-arat in September 1876 making the ascent alone The Russian governor had supplied him bim with an escort but bet the they were still feet I short of the summit when overcome with sup superstitious fear feat they refused to go on Mr Bryce described the summit summit sum sum- mit as a. a S little plain of snow enow silent and desolate with a bright green sky above and the view as stern and monotonous or Armenia Ar Ar- r- r menia on the slopes of ot the Ararat's greater peak claims to be the oldest town in the world The name of the rude little village means He descended descend descend- ed here bere and the townspeople allege that on that very spot Noah disembarked barked with his family and animals and set up housekeeping planted the Ino vino made mado wine vine and celebrated The tomb of Noahs Noah's better halt half is at the base baso of the mountain and a fragment fragment frag frag- ment of what Is said to have been the tho true ark Is preserved in an ArmenIan Armen Armen- ian isa monaster monastery Noah was not burled buried in the worlds world's oldest cit city but near Damascus He lIe was wag a Yer very large man the natives will tell you and as proof point to his supposed grave grayc which is almost fifty fet feet in length length- Tho The Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- also locate the time Garden of or Eden near neal Ararat I |