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And for those who love the mountain heights there is the beautiful and picturesque Mount Demavend, rising some 19,400 feet above sea-level.

There had been another heavy snowfall, and in the evening the Elburz range, over a hundred miles away, rose in unsullied whiteness like a glittering wall, and above it the colossal cone of Demavend, rose-flushed.

Mazenderan is not less celebrated in Persian romance than the region at the foot of Demavend.

The smoke rising out of the crater of Demavend is the breath of Zohak chained in the depths of the mountain.

The highest peaks are situated in the still unexplored district of Talikan, N.W. of Teheran, and thence eastwards to beyond Mount Demavend.