The mountains of Koordistan, some of which are capped with snow through all the year, often rise to the height of twelve thousand feet, and one peak is supposed to be fourteen thousand feet above the sea.

Mr.Khanikoff afterwards became Russian Consul General at Tabriz, and proved himself a sincere and valuable friend to the mission.
Failure of health constrained Mr.Stocking to return, with his family, to the United States, and he was never able to resume his missionary labors.

Since his lamented decease, a son has taken his place among the Nestorians.
It should be gratefully acknowledged, that violence towards missionaries has almost everywhere been the exception, and not the rule.

It has been so even in Koordistan.

But Mr.Cochran, while travelling with several Nestorians through Nochea, was assailed by five robbers in the employ of a Koordish chief, named Seyed Khan Bey.