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THROUGH NORTH ARMENIA TO ERIVAN 185
Delidjan is a charming place. The houses are far apart,
with luxuriant gardens and trees in between, so that onc
glimpses their gables and roofs peeping out among the thick
overhanging foliage. All around the country is green and
wooded. The ram was so abundant while wc were there
that the valley struck us as being damp ; but the mean annual
rainfall is only 521 millimetres, a little less than the rainfall
in Oslo, which is 572 millimetres. Most of the ram, however,
falls in summer, chiefly in June, when it is most needed by
the growing vegetation. The mean annual temperature is
about 46 or 48 ° F. (compared with 42° in Oslo), and the
climate is evidently very pleasant. The average temperature
during the winter months December-February is 320, or a
little less.
From this place wc were to drive across the Pambak Moun
tains to Lake Sevan. First the road ran south through a
pretty, thickly wooded side-valley, where the chief foliaceous
trees were oak and beech, with patches of pine-wood here and
there as well. Wc passed long strings of bullock-carts loaded
with huge logs, which are used in house-building, and are
transported in large quantities across the mountains to the
treeless regions in the south. Wc climbed higher and higher
up the mountain towards the pass. The ascent was not so
steep, or with so many sharp turns, as the pass wc had crossed
on the way to Stepanova the day before. Above the woods
wc came to slopes covered with green grass. Excellent
mountain pasture it seemed to be ; I cannot recollect ever
håving seen such long luxuriant grass on the mountains
anywhere else. Here and there wc saw some curious round
dome-roofed tents resembling the felt tents (yurts) of the
Kirgis. They belonged to Tatars from Azerbaijan, nomads
who brought their herds here every summer and wandered
about these pastures until the autumn, when they went back
to Azerbaijan. Wc saw several large herds of cattle.
I asked the mayor of Delidjan, who was accompanying us
for part of the way, whether it gave rise to disputes when
these nomads drove their animals on to the mountain pastures
belonging to the resident population. He answered that there
were practically no difficulties, as the resident population did
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