Part IL Travels into the L e v a n t. 
numerous and grow fo near one another, that they make a great Forreil, and to 
fay the truth, I never faw fo many together in one place, belides the Tamarisks Tamarisks, 
which are likewife plentiful in that place. They have many Wells there, and draw 
their water with Oxen, as in all the reft of Fer/î^î, in the manner 1 have defcribed 
when I treated of Moful. There is a Ciftern near the Kervanferay like to that of 
Moucbek^^ but it is bigger, having at leaft feven or eight Fathom in it Diamètre: 
it has a little houfe belonging to it, which confifts of a Kitchin and a Lodging- 
Room, for theufe of fuch as will not Lodge in the Kervanferay, or cannot when it 
is full: this place is five Agatfch diftant from Mouchek^^ there we began to feci the 
heat, though in the Mornings a little before Sun rifing, we had pretty cold Winds : 
before the Gate of the Kervanjeray there is one of thofe Ox Wells, with a great 
trough for watering the Horfes, but it is not good for men who in the Town driijk 
running-water. 
We flayed there all that day and the following, and departed Monday, the three 
and twentieth of March, half an hour after midnight; we took our way Weft ward 
by a very ftony Road •■, about an hour after, we found a Ciftern covered with a fteep 
Roof : half an hour after two we began to afcend the Hill of Vgiarom, to the The Hill of 
South, it is very high, and the afcent not difficult, fave only that the way is full ^g''2''''««' 
of ttones i but the higher one goes the worfe it is, and befides, there is danger from 
Precipices that are on one fide of it i the truth is, they have built little breaft- walls, 
about two foot high in fome places, to keep the Mules from failing down : there 
one may fee wild bitter Almond-Trees, and other Trees of the Mountains. We 
went up three or four times, and down as often, and the Sun found us in 
this exercife : about five a Clock we came to a Ciftern covered with a Dome, 
and an hour after to another with a fteep Roof. Half an hour after feven 
we were paiTed our up Hills and down Hills > but the way was ft:ill Itony 
and bad : at length, about nine of the Clock, we came to a little Kervanferay 
(landing all alone, near to which are two Cifterns, the one covered with a Dome, 
three or four Fathom in Diamètre, wherein there are three Doors, and as many 
Wind ows i the other has a fteep Roof : this place is called 7fchai-telhh,(ihzt is to fay) fffhaUdhl). 
bitter Well, becaufe of a Well not far from that Kervanferay whofe water is bitter. 
There is befides, another Well behind the Kervanferay, but it is dry -, and this place is 
fix Agatfch from Vgiaromu Heretofore they went not by this Hill, but ftruck off 
to the Eafi and went round it, and the Camel-drivers ftill take that way -, but be- 
caufe of five days Journey of Defart, Horfe-men and Muletors chufe rather to fuf- 
fer the fatigue of a worfe way, butlhorter over the Hill. 
Next Morning, 'fuefday, about half an hour after four, we fet forward again, 
direéiingour march Southwards: about feven a Clock we defcended into a very 
low place, by very bad way s that Hill is called Chotali Hafani, or Chotali Mahhma- Chotali mf"" 
feni, it goes by both names : towards the bottom of that defcent we found a little chotali 
Brook that runs out of the Ground, and difcharges it felf into a fquare Bafon at ^'■^^^'^fi^*^' 
fome few paces from the fource i being come down we Travelled through a very 
ftony Plain : about half an hour after Nine we came to a fair Kervafiferay, ftanding 
alone by it felf, and called Momzir, having a great fquare Bafon before the Gate, Motnzir. 
which is always filled full by a Brook that runs into it i this Kervanferay is four 
Agatfch fxomifchai-telhh, we made no ftop there, becaufe we found no body to fell 
us Provifions either for Men or Beafts : fo we continued our march in the ftony 
Plain, till abeut an hour after, having found a little Brook on our Left Hand, we 
entered about Noon into a great fmooth Plain, where we fuffered much heat: we 
Travelled on South-Eaftivard, until about two of the Clock that we found a little 
Kervanferay, clofe by a Village called De/^i^ow^e, (that is to fay) the Village of the ^f'^'*'^'"''^'' 
tail, where there are fome Palms and Tamarisk- Trees. They drink no water there, 
but out of a Ciftern near the Kervanferay, which is three or four Fathom in Diamètre, 
and covered by a Dome with fix Doors this place is three long Agatfch from Momzir, 
and is the laft of the Government of Schiras, after which we enter into that of Lar. 
We parted from thence on Wednefday, the five and tw^'ntieth of March, about 
half an hour after four in the Morning, and marched over a very even Plain, till 
half an hour after feven, when we arrived at a Kervanferay, at the end of a large 
Village called Benarn, lying at the foot of the Hill, that is to the right of it, upon ^^nam 
which, on the other fide of the Kervanferay, are the ruins of many folid Buildings, 
that reach from the top to the bottom of the Hill, and feem to have been fome 
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