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THE FRONT LER COMMISSION.
We have already s nrlounced the termination of
the labours of the international commissions
'charged with the regtilation of the Turco-Russian
frontiers in Asia, anti i the return of some of its
members to Constant iuoplo. The following is a
brief account of the lal our of that commission :
" The members as ambled on the 14th June at
Gumri (Alexandropol ), and, after an exchange of
mutual civilities, el ec:ted M. Pelissier, the senior
member, president. On the 19th the commission,
whieb, with an escor i; of Cossacks and attendants,

amounted to 500 persons, proceeded on the 19th
to Bayandir, on the southern frontier. On the 26th
it reached Anni, where there are some remarkable
ruins of early Christianity. On the 30th it ar-
rived at Hadjabayrarn, at the junction of the Arpa-
chay and Araxes, and had to remain there four
days to settle a disputed point. On the 10th July
the commission reached Imam-Aziz-Sinei. On the
11th it went to the Lake of Balouk Gueul, which
it ordered to be ceded entirely to Turkey though
part of it was claimed by Russia. Following the
rivers which take their soutca in this lake, the
commission descended towards the valley of Baya-
zid, and reached Mousson, where it visited the en-
virons to examine the military road which is
crossed by the frontier. On this road it ordered a
column to be erected to indicate the frontier. At
Koudjak Guetchit, where the commission next ar-
rived, the remains of a magnificent canal, cut,
by the old Kings of Armenia, were found. At
Arsab, which it reached on the 21st, it found
some abandoned huts—the Kurdes to whom
they belonged having, as usual in the summer,
gone to the mountains with their flocks ; these
people are called Yezidi, and adore the Genius of
Fvil. Passing by the foot of Mount Ararat and
the Lake of Tchenguel, the commission reached
Tchenguel, where a battle was, in the war of
1828, fought between the Turks and Russians, and
where the bones of the slain are still lying ; it
caused a column to be erected there. On the 23d
it reached Amarat, on the Araxes, and on the 29th
went to Etchmiaziu. On the 30th it reached
Erivan, and on the 3d August Tiflis. At the latter
place, Prince Bariatinski, governor-general of
Georgia, entertained the commission. On the 9th
the commission left Tiflis, and on the 11th reached
Gutnari. Thence it proceeded to follow the northern
frontier by Alkalkalaki Havet, Akiska, Bastoma,
Bagdad (in Imeritia), Kangisghaae, Kourilah, Ver-
sik, and it then reached Usurguete, in the Gouriel.
In this latter town the commission spent some day.;
in comparing maps, and it decided that the river
Tcholok should be the limit between the two States.
On the 17th the Russian members of the commis-
sion left for Kutais. The English, French, and
Ottoman members proceeded by Chekvetil (Saint
Nicholas) to Tchwrukson, where, on the 21st and
93d, they embarked for Constantinople. The re-
' sult of the labours of the commission will be sub-
mitted' to the Congress of Paris. The greatest
cordiality prevailed between the members of the
commission from the beginning to the end of their
operations."