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Show j SACRED MOUNT OF ARARAT People of Vicinity for Many Years Considered Its Heights Impos-I Impos-I slble to Scale. . "Arm at Is not a mountain that Ib I climbed every day, or even every I year," says u writer "Seventeen ns-' ns-' cents hnve been n corded When James llryru, unaccompanied, mndo his remarkable nscent In 1S7G he was rold by uveiy one whom ho met In lie vicinity of the mountain that tho top had never been reached, and, what was more, It never could be iJInns and Hands and glnnts hnd prevented pre-vented the rascally Kinds from even I attempting to scale the terrible moun ' tain, and since tho nik giounded there mortal man had not been allowed to tiespnss on the snerrd heights, ho was informed j "Had not St. Hugop tried aguln und i again to reach the sumc.lt In order to silence tho skeptics about the ark, but found himself each mnrnlp on waking wak-ing quietly deposited nt the bnse, whence ho started? Finally on nngel presented him with n pleco of tho ark for his pains but told him to (( his attempts to reach tho forbid i n round "Thot was in (lie fourth century ot our eiu. but the piece nr the ark I dtlll .o bo seen at tho monastery ot tho Kclimledzln. where dwells tut cathollcos of the Armenian church That Husslnns or a stray lone Hug llshmnn had really reucbec tho top of Ararat wus not to be thought ot." |