Antistrophic

Belonging to antistrophe. Anti-Taurus, an extensive chain of mountains in Turkey-in-Asia, forming one of the most considerable ramifications of Mount Taurus, with which it connects near the sources of the Kizil-Irmak in Car a mania. Commencing to the N.E. of the Cilician pa , it runs E. and N.E., separates the plain of El-Bostan from that of Cæsarea-Mazaca, and extending N.E. to the source of the Northern Halys, E. of Sivas, from thence runs E. to the Euphrates. The two parallel ranges of the A. and the Paryadres, on the S. and N. respectively, form the upper valley of the Northern Halys, the apex of which is found at their junction. The A. may be most prop IMG:content-0248.png:[graphic] erly denominated the Northern Taurus, as it cro es the Euphrates, and, running E. through Armenia, separates the valley of the Morad, or southern arm of the Euphrates, from that of its northern, the Karasu.