2 6 The Persian Travels Book I. 



From Ardeiiil to Cajbin you travel through a good Country j for every three or 

 four Leagues you meet with little Rivers that tall from the Northern Mountains, 

 and water the Earth. The Caravan is ufually five days between Ardeiiil and Ation y 

 between Arion and Taron two , between Taron and Cajbin two more. Half a League 

 on this fide Taron you muft crofs a great River over a ftene Bridge, and half a League 

 beyond you come to Kalkgl. 



<ty4rion is a little City , Taron and Kalkd are two great Towns', and there are 

 but thefe three places in all Ter fia where there grow any Olives , or that they make 

 any Oyl. Leaving Kalkal, you travel over a Plain for three hours, at the end whereof 

 is a Way which you cannot get over in lefs than four hours. The way is fo bad that the 

 Horfes and Mules can hardly get up ^ but for the Camels, they muft take the lower 

 Road, which is alfo very tedious, and full of Stones* which the Torrents tumble down, 

 and it is three or four Leagues about. When you are up , the Country is level, 

 and you have not above three Leagues to Cajbin. 



Cajbin lyes in 87 Degrees and 30 Minutes of Longitude, and 36 Degrees and 

 15 Minutes of Latitude. It is a great City, the Houfes whereof are low and ill 

 built ; except feven or eight , which are next to the King's Gardens. It has no 

 Walls , and indeed the beft half of the City is in Gardens. There are three Inns, 

 with Market-places round about -, one of the three being large and commodious. 

 It is inhabited altogether by Mahometans -, or if there be any Chriftians , they are 

 very few. 



The Soil about Cajbin produces Piftaches. The Tree that bears them is never 

 bigger than a Walnut-tree of ten or twelve years old. The great quantity of Pifta- 

 ches that are exported out of Ter fia come from Mala-vert, a little City twelve Leagues 

 from Ijpahan , toward the Eaft. Thefe are the beft Piftaches in the World , and 

 the Country being of a large extent, produces them in fuch abundance, that it 

 furnifhes all Perfia and the Indies. 



Leaving Cajbin , you come to a little Village where there is but one Inn , and you 

 travel that day fix Leagues through Countries fertil enough , and well water'd. 



The next day you travel through a good Country, and in nine or ten hours you 

 come to Denghé. This is a great Village at the foot of a Hill , through which there 

 runs a fair River. It abounds with excellent both White and Claret Wine, where 

 the Travellers take care to replenifh their Bottles. But generally they never lye 

 here j being defirous to go a League farther , for a good Inn's fake , which makes it 

 a handfom Stage. 



At this Town of Denghé it is where the two Roads from Tauris to Ijpahan meet : 

 the firft, through Ardeiiil and Cajbin , I have already defcrib'd. Hither alfo come 

 the Caravans that go for the Indies through Mejhéhed and Candahar, and where they 

 leave Ijpahan Road to take the left-hand Way , which carries them Eaftward , 



CHAP. VI. 



The ordinary ^oad from Tauris to Ilpahan , through Zangan, 

 Sultanié, and other places. 



WE muft now return again to the Lake fix Leagues beyond Tauris, 

 where they that will take the ordinary fhort way through Zan- 

 gan and Sultanie, leave the left hand way ©f Ardeitil and 

 Cajbin. This Lake is ufually full of large red Ducks , which 

 are very good Meat. 



From thence, after twelve Or thirteen hours travel, in which time you meet with 

 three Inns, you come to Karajhima, a large Town in a deep Valley, that feemsto 

 be well manur'd. There is in it only a fmall Inn built of Earth, the Doors whereof 

 are fo low, that the People are fore'd to creep Upon their knees to get in. 

 - The next day you come to another large Village call'd Turcoma , where the Soil 

 is fertil, though it be very cold. There are feveral C-aravanjerâ 's built like a long 



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