Altai Mountains (Altai` Mountains) , in Central Asia, stretching W. from the Desert of Gobi, and forming the S. boundary of Asiatic Russia, abounding, to the profit of Russia, in silver and copper, as well as other metals.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alsten * Altdor`fer, Albrecht