74 Travels int/} the 'Levant. Part IL 
Next day being Tuefday the three and twentieth of September, about three 
a Qock in the Morning, we fet out again, and continued our Journey Eaft- 
wards by very good way. About feven a Clock, we came into a very iîo- 
ny way betwixt rocky hills, but it lafted not long ; about eleven a Clock we 
Sari. came to a large Village called San, and refolved to lodge in a very prettv 
and large Kervanjerai, but it was as full already as it could hold of Men and. 
Beafts : Wherefore it behoved us to betake our (elves to another which was 
le(s, bad and ruinous, where we lodged very uneafily in the Stable amongft 
the Horfes and Mules. This Village is well built, and I obferved that the 
chief Wall of the Stable where we lodged was wholely built of black fquare 
A kind of Stones, about a foot long, and about three fingers thick, which (when they 
MarWe. ^j-g broken) fplit into Tables like flate, but thicker, and T took them for black 
Marble. The Watc-hmaker that was with us, told me that men of his pro- 
^ feflbn make uih of this ftone for poliftiing that which hath been filed, before 
ittj^ guilt. Of this Marble are all the doors of houfes, (as Fiêtro Delia Vaile 
fays, ) but there are few of them at Sari : Some I faw .at Diza-va^ nay, and I 
have feen of them in feveral places of Syria, and I believe they make them 
of this Stone for want of Timber. At Sari there is four Bi/i-is to be payed 
a load. This Evening there fell fome rain again, and it came^o us ac- 
companied v/ith good old White wine, which the Porter of the iffStflnferaK 
underhand fent for to the Village, but his fcruples were onely inWem^Xity : 
For fome Turks of our Caravan who had alfo bought of it, found it to be 
fo good, that they fate by it merrily all Night, till we weré ready to depart ; 
which put them into fb good a humour, that for part of the way they did 
nothing but roar and fing like drunken Franch, as they were, till at leno-th 
one of the gang tumbled off of his Mule, and had almoft broken his Neck 
but fell faft a fleep on the place. * 
About three a Clock in the Morning, Wednefday thefoi:rand twentieth of 
September, we parted from Sari : About eight a Clock we pafied by a Village 
M^^'^frhi c^^^^d D<f^i/e, and an hour after, by another called Moudafabah, and about 
Rachat ^ Clock we arrived at a Village named Machat^ where we fheltered our 
felves ina little Ker^uanferai. 
We parted from thence next day, being Thurfday the five and twentieth 
of September at Midnight, and by break of day pafied through a Town cal- 
Scheher-ghird. led Scbeher-ghird, which fèemed to me tt> be well built ; we then marched 
forwards till ten of the Clock, through a large barren Plain, there being no 
Water in it, nor indeed, any habitation that we could find. At ten a Clock 
'Bag, we came to a very fair Ker^vanferai called Bag, the appartments whereof are 
very commodious; and under the Gate there lives a man who fells all things 
necefiary for life, and he hath three little Rooms for his dwelling. There 
are fuch Porters in all xhQ Ker-vanferais oïPerfia, but more efpecially there 
is need of one at this, for there is no habitation aBout it, and the neareft 
Angottan. place is a Village to the right hand behind the hill, called Angouan, where 
much Tapiflry is -made, and if they told me true, is an Agatjch, (that's to 
Agatjch. fay, ) a league diilant.- For the Per/<?wj count the way by Agatjch, oï Far- 
Farjang. which is one and the fame; Agatfch being the Turktjh Word and 
Farfang the Ferfian ; and it is an hours Journey for a Horfe man, but for us 
it is almofl two ; neverthelefs, near to Ifpahan they are fo fhort that we 
travelled one an hour; At this Kervanferai^ there are three B/fis payed a 
Load. 
The lintels of the gates of it are made of one entire piece of that kind of 
Marble which I mentioned to be at Sari, but it is not polifhed ; and with- 
out the gate, there is on each fide a Mafiabe; they are in length about fix 
foot each, and four or five foot high, upon three of breadth ; the upper 
part of thefe Mafiabez,, is of one wholl piece of that Stone. 
This Marble hath been dug about fifty paces from the gate, out of a Rock 
a little higher than the ground, at the root whereof there is a little Spring of 
Water, which is all they have in that place to drink. As I was walking a- 
bout this Ker-vanferai, 1 found little Marble-Stones white, red, fpotted and 
of all forts of colours : Which makes me think that that place affords Marble 
of all colours; and indeed, the upper pare of the Rock isalmoit all white. 
We 
