Note 7 — Chapter XXI · OUR SOJOURN ON BINGÖL

I might write many pages were I to pursue this subject further; I must content myself with a statement in a very summary form of the conclusions at which I arrived. In the first place it is misleading, and indeed it is incorrect, to speak of a meridional line of elevation with orographical significance as connecting Palandöken with Bingöl. It is strange that such a practised observer as the great Abich should have fallen into such a grave error.7 The lessons which may be derived from the landscape of this important region may, in this connection, be grouped under two heads.