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left hand, are Windows reaching from the pavement a fathom high ; they 
arc all fquare holes, through which one may fee into the Cloyfter that is 
on the left fide, and which is one of the Courts of the Adeârefe that I have 
mentioned; All the Walls of this Mofque are of white Marble, from the 
paving a fathom high, the reft, like the Dome, is painted with various co- 
lours and varniftied. The pavement is all of large and very finooth Stones, 
but under the Dome, it is covered all over with lovely Carpets; and the 
outfide of the Dome is faced with green Bricks varnifhed. After all, Chrifti- 
ans are not fuffered to enter it it, and if one be found there and known, he is 
driven out with Cudgels like a Dog ; and yet that hindered not me from go- 
ing ûi\z\iQT w\û\ Mo?îjïeur Diagre mafter of the Dutch fasftory at Ifpahan-, 
for which purpole both he and I put our lelves into the habit of the Coutrey, 
and received not the leaft affront. 
At the corner of the Metdan betwixt South and Weft there is a Street, in 
which to the right hand is the Gate of the King's Haram, ( that's to fay his 
Wifes houfe,) and on the left hand is his Karchanee, (that's to fay his Work- 
houle ; ) becaufe all the Workmen of every fort of trade, who are under his 
pay work there ; they all have their (hops, and it is like to an Arfenal where 
all trades are to be found. 
One of the fineft things to be feen at Iffahan are the ftately Gardens of 
Hez^ar Dgerib, the chief building whereof is pleafanr, and at the end of the 
fair Street of 7c/>^ri'^^ or Tcheharbag; but fince that Street leads to it, and The Street of 
that it hath particular beauties of its own, I think fit to defcribe it before I T^cheharhag. 
coftie to the defcription of Hezar Dgerib. 
Tcheharbag which fignifies four Gardens is a great Street, near a hundred 
paces broad, and above two Italian miles in length. On the fide of Ifpahan, 
there is at the head and entry into it, a little Pavillion or Square building two 
ftories high, adorned with many Balconys and painted Windows, to which 
«hey come from the King's Palace, by a kind of corridor or curtain, and this * 
Street ends at Hez^ar Dgerib as we have juft now faid. It is bounded on both 
fides by the Walls of a great many Gardens, and at certain diftances by little 
houfes of uniform Symmetry, which have all a little Pavillion, and doors 
that open into the Gardens that belong, fome to the King, and the reft to 
feveral great Lords, who take their diverfion in thefe places. About twelve 
fteps from the Garden-Walls, there is on each fide a row of lovely Plane 
Trees planted in a ftreight line which yield a rare fhade, and in the middle 
betwixt thofe two rows of Trees, runs along the whole Street a current of 
Water in aCanal of fair Stone, about five foot deep and thirteen over, ador- 
ned here and there with Cafcades and fome rare Water- works, which fall 
into Bafons : The fides of that Canal are paved into the Street, and make a 
way of Free-Srone for Foot-men, which eafes them of the inconvenience of 
meeting horfes that go lower in the Street. In (hort, this Street is divided by 
the River of on which there is built a very lovely Bridge, of a pretty a Bridge of 
fingular ftruflure, which joyns together the two parts of the Street. lovely Struc^ 
This (Bridge which is called by the Name of him that built it, to wit^ ï^"^^- 
Alyverdy-Chan^ and which is alfo named the Bridge cf JulfhaJ is built ot 
good Brick with edgings of Free-Stone ; and fupported by a great many little 
and low ftone-Arches. It is about three hundred paces long, and about 
twenty broad, but in the middle where Carts and Horfes goe, it is not above 
four fathom broad, and is no higher in the middle than at the two ends. On 
each fide inftead of a Parapet, it hath a Gallery covered with a plat-form, 
both which are very commodious for PalTengers, Thefe Galleries are railed 
above the level of the Bridge above half a pikes height : The going up to them 
is by fo eafie Stairs, that horfes may without trouble afcend them; men ace 
there fecure from bad weather or the heat of the Sun , and yet have an open 
Air and fair profped, for thefe vaulted Walks have, a great many Windows 
that look upon the River. If a man defire a more open pafiage, he hath the 
plat form over this gallery, that equally reaches from one end of the Bridge 
to the other ; But it is fo hot upon it in the Summer-time, that the other way 
is more commonly taken, which ferves alfo many times for a Horfe-way in 
the Winter, that they may avoid the Water that fills np the middle of the 
M Bridge, 
