. The earth and its inhabitants .. . space to the south. Amongst them are the remains of the walls and moat, of the citadel, minarets, palaces, all in the Arab style, and dating chiefly from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Here the peasantry often pick up pottery, coins, and jewellery, and a few mendicant pilgrims may occasionally be met wandering amidst the heaps of rubbish, or prostrate at the tombs of their saints.

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