. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Madrasah of Shah Husein, from the Chahar Bagh. Within the Court of the Madrasah THE CHAHAR BAGH AND THE GREAT BRIDGE 269 The handsome portal, with its doors encrusted with brass andchased with silver, calls forth admiration, and its turquoisedome, girdled with arabesques in rich yellow, is as beautiful asit is graceful. But much, of the exquisite tiling on the domehas dropped off, and some of the marble panels on the outerwall of the building itself have disappeared, while parts of th
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Madrasah of Shah Husein, from the Chahar Bagh. Within the Court of the Madrasah THE CHAHAR BAGH AND THE GREAT BRIDGE 269 The handsome portal, with its doors encrusted with brass andchased with silver, calls forth admiration, and its turquoisedome, girdled with arabesques in rich yellow, is as beautiful asit is graceful. But much, of the exquisite tiling on the domehas dropped off, and some of the marble panels on the outerwall of the building itself have disappeared, while parts of theframework and lattice of the windows are broken. But withinthe walls of the Madrasah, in its arched cells, Mohammedanstudents continue to learn the Koran, or find leisure, in theirrecreation hours, to smoke their kalians around the shady tankin its courtyard. At the end of the avenue of Chahar Bagh is a great bridge,which is one of the five that lead over the Zendah Rud to bridge is called Pul-i Ali Verdi Khan, after the name ofthe distinguished general of Shah Abbas, and it is one of thefinest bridges of its kind in the world. It is about
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