Ch. x. the Turkish Dominions and Persia. 189 



discourage the employment of capital in the culti- 

 vation of the soil. 



The plague does not extend to Persia ; but the 

 small-pox is mentioned by the Russian travellers 

 as making very fatal ravages.* 



It will not be worth while to enter more mi- 

 nutely on the checks to population in Persia, as 

 they seem to be nearly similar to those which 

 have been just described in the Turkish dominions. 

 The superior destruction of the plague, in Turkey, 

 is perhaps nearly balanced by the greater fre- 

 quency of internal commotions in Persia. 



* Decouv. Russ. torn, ii. p. 377. 



