Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Thk Kazvin Gatk, The Mashk, Scjuare, at Tkheran KAzriN 443 comforts, but I was promised a prompt and safe arrival (againinshdllah), and away we started. The road was the best I had seen in Persia, because builtand managed by the Russians, and it was therefore marked offin versts, not farsahhs, as a measure of distance. The weatherwas warm, as it was the end of May ; the way was hot anddusty; and the plain flat and uninteresting. Nothing specialengaged my atte
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Thk Kazvin Gatk, The Mashk, Scjuare, at Tkheran KAzriN 443 comforts, but I was promised a prompt and safe arrival (againinshdllah), and away we started. The road was the best I had seen in Persia, because builtand managed by the Russians, and it was therefore marked offin versts, not farsahhs, as a measure of distance. The weatherwas warm, as it was the end of May ; the way was hot anddusty; and the plain flat and uninteresting. Nothing specialengaged my attention until we came to the river Karaj. Thisactive stream rushes out from a deep gorge in the mountains,with high precipitous banks that recalled to my mind the sug-gestion I had heard from the Gabars in Yezd, that the Karajmight be the Darejya of the I photographed thescene to fix it firmly in my memory, but I felt no more con-vinced of the accuracy of the suggested identification than Idid when the Zoroastrians proposed it to me. Without halt-ing longer we proceeded again and travelled all through thenight, jolting, lu
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