Merv, the Queen of the
World;
and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an
Exposition of the Khorassan Question:
By Charles Thomas Marvin, Published by W.H. Allen, 1881
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE Turkmen.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINOR TRIBES.
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THE SUMBAR REGION. 61
triangle flows the Atrek, which, in piercing the Elburz
ridge and entering the triangle, draws to itself all the
streams flowing from the various sides of the triangle.
The Atrek, after cutting through the Elburz, flows for a
considerable distance away from that ridge, and in this abandoned
expanse between the river and the Elburz, rise the two
sources of the Gorgon, forming a junction after a while,
and, together with the rest of the waters of that stream,
entering the Caspian 15 miles to the south of the Atrek.
Seventy-five miles before issuing into the Caspian the
Atrek is joined from the north by the Sumbar, its largest
tributary, whose outline serves as a sort of limit to the
mountains. Beyond the Sumbar, in the direction of the
Caspian, the ground is a little more undulating, but the
further one proceeds west the smoother it becomes, until,
in the end, it is a regular plain with occasionally
insignificant mounds, having, however, no connection with
one another. In this manner, the whole of the triangle
described, at first rocky, with a considerable
inclination towards the east, gradually descends towards
the west, and then, from the confluence of the Sumbar
with the Atrek (at Fort Tchat) to the Caspian Sea, is a
complete plain. All the spurs of the Kopet Dagh, bounding
the triangle on the north, extend almost in parallels
from east to west, thus protecting every stream from the
cold north and north-east air-currents. The ridge of the
Kopet Dagh, notwithstanding its relatively feeble height,
also serves throughout its whole extent as a protection
against cold winds to the locality lying south of it.
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