text:  Of the two furious and picturesque torrents which Pushkin has mentioned in this short poem Terek is certainly too well known to our geographical readers to need any description of its course from the snow-covered peak of Darial to the Caspian; and the bold comparison in the last stanza will doubtless be found though perhaps somewhat exaggerated not deficient in a kind of fierce AEschylean energy perfectly in character with the violent and thundering course of the torrent itself:-- CAUCASUS