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verted into Mofquees; and if you will beleivc the Armenians, they will tell voir 

 that there were in Sukanie near eight hundred Churches and Chappcls. 



Three Leagues from Sultanie (lands an Inn , and a League farther a great Town 

 call'd Ija, where there is another very commodious Inn, and moft excellent 

 Wine. 



From thence you go to Habar, an ancient City and of a large extent , but very 

 much ruin'd, inhabited by Armenians for the moft part : Here , for tfce good Wines 

 fake the Travellers (lay to recruit their Bottles. 



From Habar , after feven hours travel you come to a Village call'd Partln. From 

 Zanvan to Partin you reach in two days. It (lands in a fertil Plain , where there 

 are feveral other Villages. It is not above three Leagues broad , being enclosed on 

 each fide , to the Eaft and Weft , with a row of high Mountains. 



Having pafs'd this Plain, you come to a barren Country and ill inhabited , which 

 lads all the day, till you come to Sexava. You pafs by the Ruines of a Village, 

 where there are but two Houfes (landing , with the Tower of a Mofyuee , which 

 is very high and flender. Then you come to a Mud-wall'd-Inn , built fome few years 

 fince •, and near to that a Caftle call'd Khiara , upon the peek of a Hill , but very 

 ill built. J 



Sexava is a little City in a Soil that bears excellent Nuts. The Inns that are 

 there, being built of Earth , and being but little, are very handfom and convenient, 

 their number fupplying the defeft of their fmalnefs. 



From Sexava , after feven hours travel, you come to a great Inn , call'd Jdgionp, 

 which was formerly a nobler place than now it is, (landing alone in a Field. Three 

 Leagues from thence you meet with another Ipacious Inn , call'd Cochkeria 5 and 

 four hours farther you come to the Inn Denghe, where the two Roads meet which 

 I fpake of in the foregoing Chapter. 



From Denghe to Kom , are three days journey, over a barren , dry, and defert 

 x Country, where there is no Water but Ciftern-water, except in fome very few 

 places , where it is very good. Four Leagues from Denghe is a fair Inn j and three 

 Leagues farther (lands another , about a Mile from a Village to the South . where 

 there grows excellent good Wine , white and red. From this laft Inn to Suva is not 

 above three hours travel with the Caravan. 



Sava is a good City in a fertil Plain , where there are feveral Villages. The 

 greateft Trade of the Town is in little grey Lamb-skins, the curl whereof is very 

 neat , of which they make Furrs. Two or three Leagues beyond Sava the Country 

 is very well manur'd, and after you have forded a River half a League from the 

 City, after two hours travel, you come to one of the faireft Inns in all Perfia, which 

 was finifh'd when I went laft to Ijpahan. From thence to Kom it is about feven or 

 eight hours journey, through a dry and fandy Road: but half a League on this fide 

 Kom the^Land is very good and fruitful. 



Korn is one of the great Cities of Perfia, in a fat Country abounding in Rice 

 There grow alfo excellent Fruits , particularly large and excellent Granates. The 

 Walls are only of Earth , with little Towers dofe one to another •, and the Houfes 

 being only of Earth , are never the handfomer within-fide. At the entry into the 

 Town you muft crofs a River , over a (lone Bridge, and then turning to the right 

 hand over a fair Key, you come to an Inn very well built a«d very convenient. 



That which is moft remarkable in Kom is a large Mofaueejio Ids in veneration among 

 the Perjians, than the Mofauee of Arete ml. There it is that you may iee the Scpul- 

 chers of Sha-Scfi and Sha-Abas the Second-, as alio the Tomb o{ Sidi-F atima , the 

 Daughter of Iman-Hocen, who was the Son of Haly and Fatima-Zuhra the Daughter 

 of Mahomet. The great Gate of the M>fyuee anfwers to a "Piazza more long than 

 broad, where (lands an Inn and certain Shops, which without-fide are fomewhat 

 beautiful. One of the fides of the Piazza is clos'd up with a low Wall , over 

 which appears the Shore, and a River which you crofs at the end of the Piazza Over 

 the great Portal of the Mofquee (lands an Infcription, in Letters of Gold , in the 

 Praife of Sha-Abas the Second. The firft place that you enter into is a Court of 

 more length than breadth, which may be term'd a Garden , in regard that on each 

 Tide of the Alley in the middle , which is pav'd , there arc feveral fquare Beds of 

 Flowers > yellow Jalmin, and other Plants - 7 which are raiPd in by a Rail that runs all 

 the length of the Alley on each fide. It is not an eafie thing for the Chriftians to 



