Vol. V, No. 8.] Some Persian Folk-lore Stories, 297 
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XIII. 
THe WELL OF Cuan-1-KALEH-I-BANDAR, NEAR SHIRAZ. 
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passages, to deliver their reports in secret to Jamshid, subse- 
quently returning by the same route to their respective posts. 
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Another story relates that all J amshid’s food used to be 
cooked at Shiraz, whence it was rapidly conveyed to his table 
at Persepolis through the underground passages. It was be- 
lieved that the dishes were brought over the thirty to forty 
miles of distance in an incredibly short space of time by being 
passed from hand to hand of a numerous band of servants who 
formed a chain between the two places. 
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2 The well owes its name to the general belief that anything thrown 
down into it at Shiraz will be found floating in the sea geome three days 
later near the harbour of Bashire.—C. M. G. ; 
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