Part IL Travels into the L e v a n t. 
the Rock on which it ftands, as well in length as in breadth i it hath no other Walls 
but the Walls of the Houfcs, which are three or four Stories high, and feme 
higher, all built of Stone. TXhis Town is in manifelt danger fometime or other j 
of falling down toplïe turvy all at once, being fo high, and having nothing to ' 
fuppcrt it ; and indeed, the Inhabitants miftrult it, for about ten years lince they 
began to build another Town, at feme diftance from the Rock, and to the North- ^ : 
ward of it s and when I palled by it on my return, in the Year one thoufand fix 
hundred fixty and (even, a great many Houfes were already hnifhed, and new 
ones going up, all forfaking ihe other Seat ', whereas when 1 paft it hrft, in the , 
Year one thoufand fix hundred fixty five, there was not fo much as one Houfe \^ 
begun. 
The Gate c( Tez-de-Kafi is on the SoMth-Wefi fide, where the ground about is as 
high as the Rock? it is but little, fo that not having obferved v at Hrll: coming, I 
went from the Kervanfcray to the Town, cli'î bing up the Rock on the South-Eaji fide 
betwixt the Gardens i and after much climbing up, I entered by a little Gate, and 
went on above a hundred Ikps in a coveted way that receives no light but by ugly 
holes, and is by confcquence fo dark, that one mufl groap along as they go in it. I 
durft proceed no farther for fear of lofing my felf, or entering into feme Houfe 
by miftake, and fo for that time I was obliged to turn back again, by the 
fame way I came : but it is not fo when one enters the Town by the other 
Gate. 
The Land about Tcz-de-KaJi bears the beft Corn in Perfia ; and indeed, they 
make moft excellent Bread there ; the Inhabitants, (as they fay,j mingling dry 
l eafe with'the Corn, which makes the Briad fo good, f ïhere are feveral fair Tombs i ' 
here, built in Falhion of Domes. ] J- 
Swiday the hrll: o( March we parted from that place, half an hour afcer midnight, 
and took the upper way, (or there are two ways, the one on the Lclt Hand Eafl- 
wards, which is called the lower way, and the other on the Right Hand to the 
IFef} fide, which they call the upper way, becaufc it lies among Hills : in the Win- 
ter-time when this way is filled up with Snow, they are obliged to go the lowci 
way, w hich is the longer by a days Journy : but being aflured that the upper way 
was open, we took it, and for that end, when we fet out from the /Cerz^<?H/cr<2)', we 
held' Weltward for fome time, till we came to a place where the way leads up that 
Hill, at the Foot whereof the Kvrvanjerjy ftands -, being got up we marched in a 
Plain betwixt little Hills covered with SnoW, Ihd^hi South- Eaft, until about Three 
a Clock, we mounted up a Hill, wliere the a(eent is not long, and the defcent 
fliorter, but the way very bad i and therefore it is called Chotali N'aar-Schekeni^ chotali'Naar- 
(that is to fay,) the Hill that pulls off' the Horfes fhoes ; we came afterward into a Schel^eni. 
pretty good way betwixt little Hills all white with Snow : at day break we paffed 
by a little Caftle called Gombez Cala ■■, where there is a Village alfo but ruined. Hilf Gombe\-Cal/i. 
an hour after Nine we entered into a Plain in which we Travelled on till after Ele- 
ven that we came to a Village, where we Lodged in a Kervanferay. This Village 
is called Vehi ghirdon^ (that is to fay,) Vilîage of Nut?, not that it abounds in that Dif,î ghkdon. 
Fruit, for having informed my felf, 1 learnt that the Nuts they eat there come from 
Lar » however I took the pains to ask the reafon v^\\^ it was fo called, but all the 
anfwerl could get, was that that was the name of it: it is fcvcn Agatfch dilhnt 
from Tez-de Kajh 
We parted from Vehi ghirdnn Monday the fécond of March about midnight i 
and after two hours and a halfs Journey, pan: by a ruinous Kervanferai^ beyond 
which we marched on in a Plain covered over with Snow, where there was but 
one Path open, and that all Fro2en : about feven of the Clock wecrolTed over a 
little Biidge of five Arches, under which runs a River two Fathom broad \ and 
travelling on fiill in that white Plain, we arrived aboijt Noon at a Village called 
Kenfchkzer that is to fay the Silver- Pavillion ; there are two Kervanferais tbtrc^ iieufchl^^.r. 
the one old, and the other all new, well built ot Free-Stone and burnt Bricks, with 
many embellifluTients and very commodious Lodgings and Stables, near which 
aUb there are Appartnienfs for the ;^/«ter, and in thele we Lodged. Keufchkzeris 
feven long /Agatfch didance from Vchi-ghirdon the Land about is very good, being 
Sowed with Corn: there are about it alio a great many Meadows, where the Kings 
Horfes are fent to Grafs in the Seafon. It is always cold there, and the Snow lyes 
all the year round upon the neighbouring Hi'ls. ^The Inhabitants of that Village 
R are 
