Monteith, in the Journal of the Geographical Society of London.

vol.iii.

p.i.p.39, clearly shows that there are but two passes between the Black Sea and the Caspian; the central, the Caucasian, or, as Col.

Monteith calls it, the Caspian Gates, and the pass of Derbend, though it is practicable to turn this position (of Derbend) by a road a few miles distant through the mountains, p.
40 .-- M.] [Footnote 140: The imaginary rampart of Gog and Magog, which was seriously explored and believed by a caliph of the ninth century, appears to be derived from the gates of Mount Caucasus, and a vague report of the wall of China, (Geograph.

Nubiensis, p.