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Show , j Ararat Mount Ararat is a twin-peaked mountainous area situated where Armenia Ar-menia and Persia meeL south of the Caucasus range. It Is noteworthy for its extensiveness rather than Its height, the highest peak being something some-thing under 17.000 feet. The mountain moun-tain is of volcanic origin. Its lower regions ore Inhabited and the summits sum-mits have been repeatedly ascended and thoroughly explored. The usuul statement that Noah's ark rested on Mount Ararat has no foundation In the Hebrew text which reads "On the mountain's of Ararat" In ancient times Ararat was the oame ot a district In eastern Armenia, and sometimes also for all Armenia and the mountainous ridge In the southern part of that country. |