550 A KAZEM-BEG, 
b) Instead of Wihrandj, as it is im the MSS. of Berlin and St. Petersburg, in our text we have 
PE ur? Syle which according to the construction of the Turkish language must be he U? 
She! The word u“, as it can here have no other signification, we presume to be the 
corruption of uw“ which we have added ina parenthesis in the text, and which, both in the 
Persian and Turkish languages, especially in the idiom of Aderbijan, means bad, mean, mise- 
rable; therefore we have translated the whole: «an edifice badly covered.» 
Remark 2. page 543. Ja 
In our MS. there is wanting what the reader will find in Klaproth’s translation about the 
«kid», or as he calls it /a digue du port &c. The ss interesting supplement occurs in the 
MS. of St. Petersburg, which says: o is?) Là UE L (bi s) C9 J48 ere) TEE Lo JS 5 
Jo) Vol Dél5e «He fortified the Gkaid, (ï. e. the chain or the harbour) and pro- 
longed the walls of that Gkaïd 105 yards (farther) intoithe sea.s 
FA The present walls of Derbend as we have had occasion to mention above, (Rem. 8. to 
Part [.) terminate very close to the Caspian Sea, and their ruins in the sea could be traced in 
the beginning of this very same century, to an extent of more than 50 yards.® The walls thus 
running forth into the sea, according to many authors; formed a harbour, where the ships 
entered and laïd at anchor. We shall here give a description of this port, taken from the trans- 
lation of a geographical work, bearing the name of EU, SIL] in the Persian language, by 
Aboul- Mahäsir Muhammed An-nakhchaväni: JESs sul 02 Lo Lis, Us af aus Hs 0 
ft ui) JS Qomss ailes : calme y 653 if ele 4 es AP Hi Jus Lo de 
di oil enfle 5351s des 5 col 555 ons Of 3s OUI GE énerbend À a town 
built on the shores of the sea (of RAGE, or Teberistan, as it is called elsewhere by the same 
geographer); on both sides of the gulph of the sea (ï. e of the harbour), are built two walls 
extendimg (into the sea) ta the place where the entrance for the ships is narrow, and here the 
mouth is closed by a chain, in order that the shïps may énter and go out by their (the g guard” s) 
permission. These two walls are buïlt of stones and broken piéces. 7 This account is almost 
identical with what Klaproth has taken’ from /dréé, except in a very few instances , which 
we shall mark by puttmg in ‘italics. € Babul-abvab est une grande ville sur, la mer des 
Khazars, ‘avec un pue commode pour les navires: de chaque côté de ja pos deux. con- 
structions semblables à .des® murs. s'avancent en mêér;- Fun ‘peut- ‘être fermé. avèé ‘une chaîne, 
Î lu L} ! + 
Au FLAD Gui ) xl,» Al, L € 
Ah, éute Moiia ml it) Le, AU Lg 
g The stones that were to be seen on the surface of the water in my, remembrance, are now taken by 
the iphabitants and-used: for buildings, so that scarcely 2 ‘trace of the’ wall cm “beèseen” at presén, nié 
on close investigation, 
b That is to say, of large stones Kia together; on both ER the icés Gf-tie ranpèrt; dr 
interval between them being filled up with broken, or small sonesse ci the whole cemented vif, lime just 
as itlie: fact proves'it.to be-at the présent: day. hd - LR ALL de : > 
