554 A. KAZEM - BEC, 
Remark 6. page 544. pr) ob 
In the MSS. both of Berlin and St. Petersburg, the name is pas AÏmektüm, the secret 
or the guarded. This reading Î find more consistant with what we have had occasion to learn 
in the IL part of this work abétit the secret gate through which 6000 Mussulmans, under-the 
direction of'a:certain. spy, by night, enterel the: fortress of Derbend &c. See page 505. — 
— 
| Remark 7. page 54%. 
The orthography of our MS. as well as that of St. Petersburg is aila]| and not alu] 
as it stands in Klaproth’s translation, 
NB. 1) None of the appellations, given here by the author, are in use now, nor can any 
body ascertain the reason why they were called by these names. In our MS. alone they 
are explained by the new names, by which these gates are at present called. Djerchi-gkapi 
or the gate where the orders of the Khans were proclaimed, (see Rem, 8. to the fourth part, 
on K>2b) or the ancient Babu-l-m'hajir, is in the N. W. wall of the town, very near the 
citadel. Opposite to this, ï. e. in the S. W. wall, is what the author names Babu-l-mektäm, 
now Baiat-gkapi ï. e. the gate of the Baïats, a people who form the greater part of the pre- 
sent inhabitants. The gate of Ghirkhler, or the ancient Babu-l-djihäd, is in the N. wall of 
the town, almost im the same direction that leads to the sepulchre of that name (see Rem. 11. 
to part II.). Opposite to this gate in the south wall, ïs the Yenghi-gkapi, or the new gate (we 
do not know why it is called so) anciently named Babu-l- Hams. 
The gate named Turkuman-gkapi, or the ancient Babu-l-Gkaiser is also in the cité wall; 
very, near the place where some years ago, stood the Däbarou 1. e. the double wall or the 
middle wall of Derbend which is now FUROIT The Narin-gkala-gkapisi, ï. e. the gates of 
the citadel, anciently called Æ/ghemeh (we do not know why; probably from the name of à 
person :) is the gate in the S, W. part of the wall close to the citadel; through this gate how- 
ever one can not enter into the citadel which has a perfectly independent entrance. 
2) Here in the description of our author are omitted two other gates, namely: MEHR Orta- 
gkapi, or the middle gate, which is in the southern wall, between the Varin-gkala-gkapisi 
and the Fenghi-gkapi, — and the northern «rt LSJ Ls> Dubari-gkapisi which is oppo- 
site to the southern one of the same name otherwise called 47-gkaiser or the Turkuman- 
Gkapi above mentioned. By the addition of the last, the walls of Derbend, beginning from the 
citadel down to the sea, contain 8 gates: 5 in the southern wall and 3 in the northern, all of 
which some thirty years ago were in use. 
3) In our MS. is wantmg what we find in Klaproth’s translation respecting another small 
gate, separately named Babi- Kutchek EME and we find exactly the same thing in the 
MS. of St, Petersburg, — In fact, in the southern wall of Derbend there are yet seen the pla- 
ces Of {wo gates at the distance of about 200 yards. from, each other, both of which are now 
built up with smaller stones. These must, certainly, have been designed for entrances or ga- 
tes; — both of them are very near the sea, especially the largest, which: is not more than 
