Note 1 — Chapter VII · FROM BITLIS TO MUSH—MUSH
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The Sources of the Euphrates, in Journal R.G.S. 1895, pp. 173 seq. Mr. Ainsworth conjectures that the water of this well, which he describes as a crater fountain having a basin 220 feet in circumference, comes from Lake Van. I should doubt it. The same careful observer is not quite right in speaking of it as “the source” of the Kara Su. It is no doubt one of the sources, but the Morkh Su, already mentioned, is the first of these westward-flowing streams. For further particulars in regard to the pool of Norshen see Chap. XVIII. p. 317 of the present volume. ↑