Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 551 
afin d'empêcher que personne ne puisse entrer ou sortir sans la permission du garde de la mer. 
Ces deux murs sont en pierres jointes ensemble par du plomb qu'on à coulé dans leur inté- 
rieur.» See Nouveau Journal Asiatique T. IIT. p. 458. 
Of these walls, or the gkaïd, Mas'oudi also speaks; he says they extended to the sea about 
two miles, and even describes the manner in which they were built in it. He supposes 
that the foundation of these walls, in the depth, was laïd through the means of large bags of 
leather filled with air, which being tied together, the foundation, consisting of a unron of stones, 
iron and tin, was prepared and fastened upon them; these bags, beïng sufficiently loaded, at last, 
of course sunk down to the bottom of the sea, whereupon the bags, being discharged of the 
air they contamed, the foundatron rested upon the solid ground, and so by degrees was raised, 
until it became level with the surface. of the sea. — An account of this we may read in the 
üle of Katib-tchelebi, who censures this supposed mode of construction and does not agree 
at all with it (see Le Ole published in Constantinople in 1145 of the Hijret p. 395.) But Za- 
khariya- Al-Ghazvini also makes mention of this mode of constructing the Gkaid. 
b) The appellation of JS Ghkaid (meaning chain, in Arabic) which is used in both copies 
of the Derbend -nâmeh, and which Klaproth's reads Kid and translates la digue du port, 
must be given to the whole port, from the chain with! whïch the mouth or the passage of the 
port was closed to prevent the entrance or exit of ships without the permission of Guards of the sea. 
_ In some MS. we have erroneously JS, JE and JS, — 
Remark 3. page 544. 
1) The names of the seven Mosques mentioned in all three copies of the Derbend-nâmeh, 
prove that the numher of streets or parts of Derbend was seven, and not seventeen, as we read 
in Klaproth's, translation. In the MS. of St. Petersburg we find SH) for LS seven. 
2) Since, in more than one place we have had occasion to observe that Gkubad , Anushirvân 
and even the Khalifs, at different times sent people out of Syria, Mesopotamia and other coun- 
tries of their kingdoms to inbabit Derbend and some other parts of Daghistan, we can recog- 
nize in the names mentioned here in the text, those branches of the inhabitants, who are sup- 
posed, to; have been. removed from towns, or couutries having the same appellations; that of 
Khazar being derived, from the name of a part of that tribe who settled in Derbend and re- 
ceived the. religion of Islam. L 
… We find an account,  nearly, similar, but, with some slight difference, in Teberi, who says, 
that « Muslimeh having arrived and looked at Derbend, divided it into four parts; one part he 
gave toi the. people of Shäm and, the other to the people of Æems°. To this day their descen- 
dants are still living there, and. each part is called by its respective name. » See appendix Ex- 
© Hems, or the ancient Emesa of the Greeks, — once a cultivated, and highly populated city of Syria 
(now. formiug a poor town of the government of Tripoli),-— being also mentioned in all the versions of the 
Derbend-nâmeh, we should take Shdm, for Damask, which. will make the sense more clear. 
* 
