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Travels into PERSIA. 257
The Day aster we Marched Two and Thirty Miles to Esducbos: Chap. V
But before we exchanged Degurdu for this place, we accosted a Black \-£y~^Li
Marble Mountain, worn as smooth as Glass, andasssippery as Ice, tfJES^,,
by the constant footing of all sorts of Animals, so that we sscde A»jso*ram
step by ssep, as our Horses do in deep Way, with this only advan- pmhia-
tage, that we had sound Bottom : Beneath this a small Plain led us
to the brink of a vast Precipice, the utmost Limits of Pbarfeftaa, or
the Old sersian Realm ; here a deep broad Dirch, through which a
troubled muddy Rivulet runs under a Stone Bridge, (the whole being
not Broader than our Tbamesis^) parts this Country from Partbia:
We remained this Night on xhtPerftan side, in a Magnificent Brick
Caravan Ser Raw, Built on the descent into the Trencj, which Weft-
ward oa the dry Banks was stored with fine Gardens and fruitful Or-
chards; over which on the other side was truly verified what might
be Fabuloussy delivered of Semiramiss Pendulous Gardens and Sum-
mer-Houses, there being Tenements made over this Moat out os
the ancient Fortifications, barring the Persian Incroachments on
their Confines, whose Mouldring Sands have left the jetting Rocks
the bare supporters of these hanging Buildings. The fmest Wheat
of all the Emperor's Dominions is of the growth of this Soil, the
Bread whereof is in highest Esteem.
CHAP. V.
Our Progrefs into Panhia; Entrance into Spahaun, and
Reception there,
EN T RI N G Partbia by this Mound, or heap of Earth, seem-
ingty cast up on purpose to make this hollow Gulph, we were
opposed by no other Mountains till we came to Moxuteheggy, though
we encountred almost in every Village with old Castles made of Mud old Caftta
and almost turned to Earth again ; in whose stead, at the Emperor's turned into
Charge, are maintained many Dovecots, pleasantly seated in Gar- Dovecots-
dens, sor the sake of their Dung, to supply the Magazines with
Salt-Petre for making Gunpowder, they having none else but what
is Foreign.
These Dirt-Forts might lie'buried insilence, were-it dot for the Tragical
the worthy Memory of the Person who first undertook to de- foil of imgKm
molissi them, thereby expressing his Faith and Loyalty to his cwjroww.
Prince.
For the Renowned Shaw Alas being placed in his Throne by the '
Valour and Conduct of the Trusty Imaum CoolyCaun, Maugreallthe
opposite Factions of Court and Empire, he could not be reckoned
to sit firm on his Throne, so long as these Impediments remained in
the Hands of either Friend or Foe, because that they not only en-
abled the PossesTors to siand on Terms with the Emperor, but were
a sure Refuge, not only to Villains and Traitors, but to Thieves and
Robbers, as well as Fugitives that ssed from the hands of Justice j
LI whereby
The Day aster we Marched Two and Thirty Miles to Esducbos: Chap. V
But before we exchanged Degurdu for this place, we accosted a Black \-£y~^Li
Marble Mountain, worn as smooth as Glass, andasssippery as Ice, tfJES^,,
by the constant footing of all sorts of Animals, so that we sscde A»jso*ram
step by ssep, as our Horses do in deep Way, with this only advan- pmhia-
tage, that we had sound Bottom : Beneath this a small Plain led us
to the brink of a vast Precipice, the utmost Limits of Pbarfeftaa, or
the Old sersian Realm ; here a deep broad Dirch, through which a
troubled muddy Rivulet runs under a Stone Bridge, (the whole being
not Broader than our Tbamesis^) parts this Country from Partbia:
We remained this Night on xhtPerftan side, in a Magnificent Brick
Caravan Ser Raw, Built on the descent into the Trencj, which Weft-
ward oa the dry Banks was stored with fine Gardens and fruitful Or-
chards; over which on the other side was truly verified what might
be Fabuloussy delivered of Semiramiss Pendulous Gardens and Sum-
mer-Houses, there being Tenements made over this Moat out os
the ancient Fortifications, barring the Persian Incroachments on
their Confines, whose Mouldring Sands have left the jetting Rocks
the bare supporters of these hanging Buildings. The fmest Wheat
of all the Emperor's Dominions is of the growth of this Soil, the
Bread whereof is in highest Esteem.
CHAP. V.
Our Progrefs into Panhia; Entrance into Spahaun, and
Reception there,
EN T RI N G Partbia by this Mound, or heap of Earth, seem-
ingty cast up on purpose to make this hollow Gulph, we were
opposed by no other Mountains till we came to Moxuteheggy, though
we encountred almost in every Village with old Castles made of Mud old Caftta
and almost turned to Earth again ; in whose stead, at the Emperor's turned into
Charge, are maintained many Dovecots, pleasantly seated in Gar- Dovecots-
dens, sor the sake of their Dung, to supply the Magazines with
Salt-Petre for making Gunpowder, they having none else but what
is Foreign.
These Dirt-Forts might lie'buried insilence, were-it dot for the Tragical
the worthy Memory of the Person who first undertook to de- foil of imgKm
molissi them, thereby expressing his Faith and Loyalty to his cwjroww.
Prince.
For the Renowned Shaw Alas being placed in his Throne by the '
Valour and Conduct of the Trusty Imaum CoolyCaun, Maugreallthe
opposite Factions of Court and Empire, he could not be reckoned
to sit firm on his Throne, so long as these Impediments remained in
the Hands of either Friend or Foe, because that they not only en-
abled the PossesTors to siand on Terms with the Emperor, but were
a sure Refuge, not only to Villains and Traitors, but to Thieves and
Robbers, as well as Fugitives that ssed from the hands of Justice j
LI whereby