JABAL- ul - JUDA, Aghri Dagh, or Mount Ararat, the Ararat of modern geographers, in the province of Erivan, is in height about 16,200 feet. In the last volume of Cosmos, Humboldt records the height of Demavend at 19,715 feet, which is 1785 feet under the height attributed to it. According to some authorities, Ararat is only 17,112 feet high. General Monteith made it 16,000 feet above the level of the Araxes. Agri dagh is the name given to it by the Turks; but all unite in revering it as the haven of the great ship which preserved a father of mankind from the waters of the deluge. Ararat is called by the Armenians, also, Massissinsar, or Mountain of the Ark. Berosus and Alexander both declare that in their time it was reported that some Jabral is worshipped at and near Ellichpur, and seems to be the angel Gabriel, whom Muhammad ans style Jabrail. In the alliterative habits of the orientals, the term Jabral Abral is commonly used, and the silver figure, that of a man, is worn around the neck. Near Amraoti, also, is a rag tree, with
incense on altars of mud at its foot, which the Dher of 13algaon said was a Jabral. Sakinath is a deity of Amraoti, whose worship protects from snakes. In the Chauki pass, in the Lakenwara range, which forms the watershed between the Godavery and the Tapti, about 10 miles north of Aurangabad, there is a shrine of the deity called Massoba, to which people of all castes resort, from a circle ofa hundred miles, Brahman,'Sudra, and Dher, but chiefly the 3Iahratta Kturbi. The Jatra is held in the _month Cheita, and lasts for four days, during which many sheep are offered in sacrifice. It is in the southern side of the pass, a mere block of stone, with smaller blocks at its foot, all smeared with red lead. The objects of their visits are wholly personal, beseeching the deity to give, or preserve, their children, their flocks, or their food.