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Excerpt from A Winter Journey Through Russia, the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia, Vol. 1 of 2: Thence Across Mount Zagros by the Pass of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand Greeks, Into Koordistaun At the hospitable palace of Prince Galitzin, Governor-general of Moscow, I had the good fortune to meet the Baron Humboldt just as that philosophic traveller had returned from his highly interesting journey to the Ural mountains; and by his suggestion I resolved to pass through those unfrequented provinces lying on the western shore of the Caspian, formerly tributary to Persia, but more re cently ceded to Russia, and now forming a part of that huge empire. Thence I struck into Koordistaun, a country which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.