The East: a Paper Read Before the Literary Society of Washington, D. C., March 20, 1880
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Arya, Aria, or Ariana, the ancient name of the country now designated as Bokhara and Afghanistan, including the great table-land of the Parapomisus or Hindu Kush Mountains, and the regions extending to the north and south of that range, is now generally regarded as the parent home of all the Aryan — or, as they were formerly with less propriety called, the Caucasian — nations. And in the same region, and probably in the elevated land of Pamir, north of the valley of Cashmere, we are to look for... the cradle of the whole human race. The Ararat of the Mosaic writings, which is generally identified with the great mountain peak of Armenia would seem to have really been intended to designate the whole range of the Parapomisus, the back-bone of Asia and of the globe : and the tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis is not, there- fore, antagonistic to the result of modern researches. The word or syllable Ar, which is the basis of the words Aria, Aryans, Armenia, Ararat, Aram, Arphaxad, Arba- ces, Artaphernes , and so many other well-known eastern (30) APPENDIX.
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