Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c&c: during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 . a pot, for a morsel of bread! Perhapsthe bone of the sheep, over which they mumble their fortune-telling, may be some trace of the saciificial victim over whichtheir seers of old used to pronounce prediction ! Having taken leave of the Kara Shee encampment, and alsopassed through Binaub, we kept on in nearly a due south direc-tion till, pretty far on the plain, we halted at the village ofIlkoonly. Our march had been six hours and a half, called sixfarsangs. August 25th. — On leaving our
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c&c: during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 . a pot, for a morsel of bread! Perhapsthe bone of the sheep, over which they mumble their fortune-telling, may be some trace of the saciificial victim over whichtheir seers of old used to pronounce prediction ! Having taken leave of the Kara Shee encampment, and alsopassed through Binaub, we kept on in nearly a due south direc-tion till, pretty far on the plain, we halted at the village ofIlkoonly. Our march had been six hours and a half, called sixfarsangs. August 25th. — On leaving our menzil, we ascended the hillsto the south-east, keeping a course rather to the eastward of AGRICULTURAL MACHINES. 533 south, and were not more than half an hour in crossing them ;when we descended again into the great plain of the lake, andpassed close to the large and populous village of Deez. Theroad was excellent, and the natives busy carrying their cornharvest; for the conveyance of which they use a very clumsysort of cart, on two solid wheels, while the body and pole takea long triangular I have been over many vast level tracts in Persia, but this isthe only one where I found so useful an assistant of the cart of the Philistines, mentioned in the Book ofSamuel, as not being drawn by horses or mules, but by milchkine, so this rather clumsy vehicle is drawn by oxen or a mile farther, we passed the village of Mateck Kanly,where the inhabitants were parting their corn from the straw,in much the same manner described in a former part of myjournal; the beasts walking over it in a regular circle, whileyoked to a pole attached to the axis of a spiked cylinder. Ten miles farther march on the plain brought us to the village 534 SIAN KALA. of Laylan, peopled by Kermani transferred from their paternalprovince in the south-east of Persia, by the late monarch AgaMahomet Khan. Thence our course continued more to theeastward, soon crossing the wide
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