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Travels into the L e v a n t. Part II 
that is to fay Stairs i it is not high, but yet very difficult to get up, being all fteps 
in a very flippery Pvock, which hath given it that name : we were a full half hour 
in thatpaffage, not only becaufe it behoved Ub to goe one by one, but alfo becaufe 
feveral Mules fell and threw their burdens, which we muft load again -, and ali 
this by Star-light, which in Per/?^ commonly (bine fo clear that one may Travel by 
them even when there is no Moon-fliine; we afterwards continued Travelling 
amongrt Hills till it was day. that we entered into a great Plain, as barren as the 
former, wherein we marched on till half an hour after Eight, when being arrived 
at a Village called Mayar, we Lodged in a Ktrvanferays this place is eight long 
Agatfch from Babaruk^ 
Mayar is a ruinated Village , which was formerly of note, and had many 
Gardens about it that produced pknty of Fruit i but fome years fincean Eatmad 
Voulet cut off their water, to bring it all into a Garden which he had in thofe 
Quarters i fo that fince that time, nothing Grows there, and they bring what they 
want from other Villages: nor have they any other water to drink but what they 
~ Maytr is the out of a great Pool hard by: at that Village begins the Country which is pro- 
the ' "countr^^ '^^^^^ Pfr/z^. We parted from thence next day, being 'ïhurfday the fix and twenti- 
of W °or real of February, about Three a Clock in the Morning, and continued our way over 
Pnfia. the fame Plain i about Five in the Morning we crolTed a fmall running water. 
Sc\)air\a, Half an hour after Nine we pafled through a little Village called Schairza, where 
there is much Sowed Land, and many Gardens : in one of thofe Gardens there is 
a Pond of Spring- water, which falls down from the Hills that are over it > it is fo 
full of Fi(h, that from thence the Garden hath taken the name of Hhaouz-Mahû 
which fignifics a Fifti-Pond i but there is a Vervip that hinders people from 
catching them. Keeping on our way, about half an hour after Ten in the Mor- 
î{o}»fchiih. ning we came near to a Town called Komfchah, five Agatfch from Mayar i there 
is Wine there, and feveral Kervaaferays, in one of which we Lodged out of the 
Town. 
We parted from thence next day, being FriJay the feven and twentieth of Fe- 
hruary, at Three a Clock in the Morning i but no fooner were we gone, but we 
were forced to turn back again, becaufe there was a Chan upon the Road, going 
The meeting (o Schiras with his Haram, (that is to fay his women 0 and therefore we could not 
a cfetf» with jj^g jealous Pcrfians fuffer no man to come near the Road where there 
^^''* women are. So then we came back, and having fetched many compafles about 
another way, three quarters of an hour after we fell into the High- way again, which 
was ftill a Plain, and we kept on marching ftill aloioft Southwards, but with a 
piercing cold Wind ■■, we found feveral Brooks on our way, and the ground being 
pretty good in that Country, fofoon as it was day we fawfome Villages on our 
Right Hand, and about Nine of the Clock arrived near to a Village called Mak^ 
. Malifoiid Bt' foudBeghiy iive Agatfch àiùsint from Komfchah^ we Lodged in a ntw' Kervanferay^ 
gbi» that of the Village being demoliftied. 
Next Morning about a quarter after Two of the Clock, we fet forward on our 
Journey again, over the feme Plain we had the day before -, at break oT day we 
pafled by a little Caille built of Stone, with fome round Towers, where there is 
Ammbad. a Village hard by with Gardens and a Kervanferay : that place is called Amnehad > 
„ it is diftant from Makfoud-Beghi three Agatfch, and as far from Yez-de-Kafi. This 
Caftle was built by Ïmam-Couli-Cban, who was Chan of Schiras in time of the 
great Schah- Abbas. Keeping on our way, about Eleven of the Clock we arrived 
Sit7ez-de-Kafi, a little Town or Burrough, three Agatfch diftant from Amnebady 
and fix from Makfoud-Beghi , we went and Lodged in a Kervanferay a little be- 
yond it. 
7i'!i-dc-K''fi. TeZ'de Kaft is very little, having but only one Street \ it is built upon^ narrow 
Rockjwhich ftretches out in length from North-Ea(l to Somh-Weji i this Rock is very 
fteep, fo that it is almoft as broad on the top as at the bottom, efpccially on the 
North- Weii fide i it is in fome places above feven or eight Fathom high, particularly 
on the SoHth-Eaji fide : at the Foot of this Rock on the fame South-Eafl fide, 
. X there are fome Gardens, fand fome fteps farther runs a little River, near to which 
. Q- is the Kervanferay, built of burnt Bricks » and over the Gate there is a pretty con- 
I 'f.^ venient Lodging- Houfe i if ftandsat the Foot of a high Rock that is to the Sottth of 
I (^^ j - itjfrom which fomctimes great pieces fall, and are to be ften below,moft of them be- 
ing as big as Houfes. The Village of T(Z-de-Kafi, takes up the whole Surface of 
the 
