Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . and a little below it, and occupy the south-eastern, eastern, and northeastern sides of the hill-crest. Theseform together a part of the general temple precinct, havingprobably served as an abode for the priests, a sanctum for thefire, and perhaps also as a temple treasury. The design andarrangement reminded me of the ruined sanctuary of fire whichI noticed near Abarkuh on my journey to Yezd. To examine the crumbling chambers I had to descend a fewpaces from the sacred building which I
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . and a little below it, and occupy the south-eastern, eastern, and northeastern sides of the hill-crest. Theseform together a part of the general temple precinct, havingprobably served as an abode for the priests, a sanctum for thefire, and perhaps also as a temple treasury. The design andarrangement reminded me of the ruined sanctuary of fire whichI noticed near Abarkuh on my journey to Yezd. To examine the crumbling chambers I had to descend a fewpaces from the sacred building which I had been walls of a ruined edifice on the southeastern side of thesummit first attracted my attention. They were the remnantsof a succession of halls and rooms built of clay and brick ac-cording to a definite plan of construction, but they were all ina hopeless state of dilapidation. I turned from these to thenortheastern side of the crest. Here I found a still moreelaborate structure, but even in a worse state of ruin than thepreceding. One room, about twenty feet square, was still in a.
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