37/45 According to the religious philosophy of the Mahometans, the basis of Mount Caf is an emerald, whose reflection produces the azure of the sky. The mountain is endowed with a sensitive action in its roots or nerves; and their vibration, at the command of God, is the cause of earthquakes. 230, 231.)] [Footnote 2311: Altai, i.e.Altun Tagh, the Golden Mountain. Von Hammer Osman Geschichte, vol.i.p. 2 .-- M.] [Footnote 24: The Siberian iron is the best and most plentiful in the world; and in the southern parts, above sixty mines are now worked by the industry of the Russians, (Strahlenberg, Hist. |