Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . is herculean blows.^ But the 1 See Ker Porter, TravcJs, 2. 149- c«. ). Mr. E. L. Mitford (T^Vom162. England to Ceylon Forty Years Ago, 2 When I gained access to my libra- London, 1884) believed tlaat it was de-ry I found that M. de Morgan {Mis- signed apparently for the back wall ofsioii Scientifique, 4. 286-289) has given some extensive building, and he addsan elaborate description of the probable that the only sculpture on the scarpmanner in which the vast surface was was a singl
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . is herculean blows.^ But the 1 See Ker Porter, TravcJs, 2. 149- c«. ). Mr. E. L. Mitford (T^Vom162. England to Ceylon Forty Years Ago, 2 When I gained access to my libra- London, 1884) believed tlaat it was de-ry I found that M. de Morgan {Mis- signed apparently for the back wall ofsioii Scientifique, 4. 286-289) has given some extensive building, and he addsan elaborate description of the probable that the only sculpture on the scarpmanner in which the vast surface was was a single female mask. If thisprepared by the stone-cutters, and he still exists, I failed to see it, and I amshows how the markings on the stones inclined to think that the signs in thewhich have been thrown down may have fallen stones which are scatteredbeen made. He is of the opinion that about are masons marks rather thanthe surface was prepared to receive an characters of an alphabet. But I mayinscription, qui, peut-gtre, devait rela- be wrong. ter tons les faits de Ihistoire perse {op. See p. 226,
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