Ararat

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Ararat

Ararat: this mount is mentioned in a very curious manner, namely, in the arms of the family of RAPHAEL.

Quarterly azure and argent a cross moline or, in the first quarter the sun in splendour; in the second the ark on the summit of Mount Ararat, and a city at the base, with this inscription in the Armenian language, NAKSIVAN; in the third quarter the angel Raphael and Tobias standing on a mount, thereon a fish proper; in the fourth an anchor with the cable entwined in band or--RAPHAEL, Ditton Lodge, Surrey.