Most Christians identify Mount Ararat with the biblical mountains of Ararat, largely because it would have been the first peak to emerge from the receding flood waters, and it is where most of Western Christianity place the landing of Noah's Ark. A 1722 biblical dictionary by Austin Calmet and the 1871 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary both point to Mount Ararat as the place where the ark rested. American missionary H. G. O. Dwight wrote in 1856 that it is the general opinion of the learned in Europe that the Ark landed on Mt. Ararat. James Bryce wrote that the ark rested upon a mountain in the district which the Hebrews knew as Ararat, or Armenia in an 1878 article for the Royal Geographical Society, and he added that the biblical writer must have had Mt. Ararat in mind because it is so very much higher, more conspicuous, and more majestic than any other summit in Armenia.