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 REIGNS OF ARMENAC AND HARMA. Page 11

part and took the name of Orbethian or Orbelians. The eldest son of Carthlus built the city of Muzkitha, called after his own name. From him the Georgians are descended. The remainder of the brethren of Haicus dispersed themselves over various parts of Asia, and founded states which, in the lapse of a few ages, became great and powerful. Leca, otherwise Lec or Ghec, is the founder of the race of people subsequently known by the name of the Leczees.

CHAPTER II.

The period between the Reigns of Armenac and Harma.

On the succession of Armenac to the government of the Haics or Armenians, he quitted Harc, where he left two of his brothers, Manavaz and Core, and accompanied by a large body of his people, advanced a few days journey to the north-east, when arriving on a plain, delightfully situated at the foot of a mountain, by which ran a river of the purest water, he halted and built a city there, calling it after himself, Aragaz or Armenagaz; i.e. the abode of Armenac. To the neighbouring moun-