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Kivcxisthc kconà Araxes of ^intus Curtius^ Viodoms SichIus, ivà Strahg. We 
kept along the fide of it, and crolTed many of its Canals, until about one of the Clock, 
we arrived at a large Village called Main^ fix Agatfch (torn Oudgioun, We Lodged Mam> 
in a good Kervanferai^ where we found fome men who accompanied to Mecha the 
body of a Lady, who had defired to be buried there. There are many Gardens 
all round this Village, full of Vines, that bear good Grapes, and abounding alfo 
in Pear-Trees, Peach- Trees, Walnuts and other Fruit- Trees, with water-Melons 
and other Melons. 
We parted from Main^ Friday, the fixth of March, half an hour after two in 
the Morning, and prefently left the High-way, fkiking to the left over Sowed 
Ground, till we got near to the Rivera we were obligsd to dofo, becaufe the 
High-way would have led us to a place where the River was not Foardabje, and 
they take not that way but when it may be Foarded over i the other way leads to 
a Bridge: we followed the current of the River, which is the fame that .runs by 
Main, until half an hour after Three, that we crofled over the Bridge, confifting 
of three Arches, but the middlemoft a very large one, under which the water is 
very rapid, a quarter of an hour after we found a great Brook, that falling from the 
Hill difcharges it felf in the River h a little farther on we faw upon the River a 
Bridge broken down, and a quarter of an hour after the ruins of another Bridge ; 
in this place there are a great many fmall Brooks, that lofe therafelves in the River, 
we then went forwards in good Way till day, that we began to afcend a little. In 
thefe Quarters is the Hill which Alexander the Great made himfelf Mafter of by 
ftratagem, fending Soldiers by a compafs about to furprife the Enemies on their 
back, whilft he Attacked them on the Front, as ^iwfKj C«r/i«j relates it : zFranc^ 
file wed me one feparated from the reft, which he faid was the very fame, but there 
was little probability in that, becaufe there ate a great many fuch thereabouts^ 
and it is very difficult to pitch upon the right i befides I did not fee how it 
could command the Paflage, which is too wide in that place, to be Locked in by 
Mountains. About Eight ©f the Clock we came to a Bridge built over the Rivet 
of Main, or Bendemir, which at that place is at leaft nine or ten Fathom broad. 
This is a rapid River, and feems to be deep, the water of it is thick,and fwells high 
in If^inter -, for they affured me that then it fwelled up as high as the Bridge, which 
confifts of five Arches, but fomewhat ruinous h neverthelefs it is called Pouli-Norv, Pouli»Nm:, 
that is to fay the New Bridge : having paffed it and left a way on our Right Hand, New-Bridge, 
we took to the Left, and having Travelled on an hour and a half more in à Plain, 
til! about half an hour after nine» we Encamped near to a Kervanferai that was a 
building, a Rich man of Schiras having left by Will money for that purpofe. That 
place is called Abgherm, which fignities hot water, becaufe the water there is a Abghtm, 
little warmi it gave fome of our Company a loofenefs > but has plenty of Filhin 
it. This place, which is but four Agatfcb from Main', was but half of our ufual 
days Journey: however our Beafts being tired, we flayed there till next day the 
feventh of March, when we parted half an hour after Two in the Morning, and 
put on before the Caravan, that we might get to Schiras the fame day. 
There are feveral ways that lead to it, but we kept flill to the Left, crofîingovct 
many Brooks ; about half an hour after fix we came to a Gaufey,above two Fathom 
broad, and two thoufand Paces long, all well Paved, with Arches in feveral place?, 
and chiefly in the middle, where there is a Bridge an hundred Paces in length, un- • 
der which runs a fmall branch of the River of Main ; that Caufey is called Po/i- Foligorgh 
gorgh. Half an hour after Seven we faw a forry /Cerww/èrrfii but a little beyond it 
there is a very good one, which is extraordinary large and well built, with many 
cmbellifhments ; at each corner there is a little Tower, the Gate is fair and high, 
adorned with many pieces of Marble, on which there are Infcriptions. The Ap- 
partmentsof this /ferz^^/f/erai are very commodious, but it is fo infefted with Gnats, 
that there is no being in it. It was built by a Chan of Sciras, who to take off the, " 
Gnat?, built, (but to nopnrpofe,) a large Garden by it j it is called ^gjjje/, ^x\à\s Agajfef. ' ^ 
thxec Agatfch îïom Ahgherm\ its common name \s?oligoMrg, (that is to fay,) the ' 
Woolfs Bridge, or Polignrd. We went on, and an hour after left a broad way on The way thae 
the left Hand, which goes ftrcight to tchehelmimr, and that is the way to it from leads to Tçh(« 
Schiras. About half an hour after Two we came to a Kervanferai, called Badgega, ^^"l^"*^- 
thtee Agatjch (torn Agajfef'. there we found feveral Horfes, Camels and Mules, ^ 
which ihçVizirof Schiras fent as a prefentto the King for the Neurouz.: for it is 
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