. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Nadir Shah, the GreatMogul, about the middle of the eighteenth century; but, ac-cording to Lord Curzons claim, it is not the original PeacockThrone, but was made for Fath Ali Shah, more than half acentury later than Nadir Shah.^ 1 See pp. 104, 267, above. details, as I neglected the ordinary 2 See Curzon, Persia, 1. 317-322, sight-seeing duty of a visit to theto whom I must refer the reader for palace and A Graduating Class of the American School for Boys at Teheran ■IB C? ^^
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Nadir Shah, the GreatMogul, about the middle of the eighteenth century; but, ac-cording to Lord Curzons claim, it is not the original PeacockThrone, but was made for Fath Ali Shah, more than half acentury later than Nadir Shah.^ 1 See pp. 104, 267, above. details, as I neglected the ordinary 2 See Curzon, Persia, 1. 317-322, sight-seeing duty of a visit to theto whom I must refer the reader for palace and A Graduating Class of the American School for Boys at Teheran ■IB C? ^^H ^^HUj^^^^^^l^^H^u V^^l I A Persian Family THE ROYAL RESIDENCE AND CHIEF BUILDINGS 423 The chief bazaars of the city are located also to the southof the Top Meidan. They are similar to the vaulted, coveredstructures that I have already described in other cities, withthe customary shops, booths, mazy passages, and courtyards forcaravans, but all on a larger scale than elsewhere in opportunities which I found in them for shopping were ex-cellent, but I sought in vain for one object which I wished topurchase; it was a flag with the Persian emblem of the Lionand the Sun. The flag has little significance in Persian patri-otism ; for that reason it is not commonly on sale, so I hadto have the banner made to order. I may add, however, thatit was handsomely painted, and it now hangs in my studyas a memento of my journey to Iran. Regarding the other native edifices in the older part of thecity there is little
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