. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . 5fy*-f?>n^b A Mounted Guard. A Typical Persian Village MOUNT ZINDAN 125 and showed the igneous origin of the ridge. It took me per-haps half an hour to reach the base of Solomons Prison Height,which rises to an elevation of nearly four hundred and fiftyfeet above the plain and is capped by a massive cone of con-glomerate produced by the discharge from the interior of thevolcano.^ The ascent to the summit of the rocky mass is verysteep. On reaching the top I found the rim of the cra
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . 5fy*-f?>n^b A Mounted Guard. A Typical Persian Village MOUNT ZINDAN 125 and showed the igneous origin of the ridge. It took me per-haps half an hour to reach the base of Solomons Prison Height,which rises to an elevation of nearly four hundred and fiftyfeet above the plain and is capped by a massive cone of con-glomerate produced by the discharge from the interior of thevolcano.^ The ascent to the summit of the rocky mass is verysteep. On reaching the top I found the rim of the crater tobe about three hundred feet in circumference, and as I peeredover into the dizzy abyss I could but think of Miltons lines: — And in that lowest deep a lower deep,Still threatening to devour, opens wide. The natives, in fact, regard the funnel-like shaft of Zindanas a bottomless pit, and there is no question that its depth mustbe several hundred feet, judging from the time required for astone to reach what seemed to be the bottom. Crawling asnear to the edge as I dared, and looking down, I could discernnear the bottom a patch of
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