Part II. T ravels into the I^e v ant. i ^ i 
Palm-Trees that grow about it: Hhourma fignifiesthe Fruit ot the Palm-Trees or 
Dates. On all that Road we found many of the Shrubs called Badijamour^ and Badifmour, « 
there is hardly any thing elfe to be feen till you come to Bender \ but they give thern ^^''C". 
another name in thofe Quarters, calling them Hherzehrt: about four a Clock wc 
faw on our Left Hand an Aquedud, which in former times conveyed water from a 
neighbouring fource to Lar; but it being dryed up, the Aquedud which colt a 
great deal of mony, though it be but low, and built only of rough ftone, is let go 
to ruin. 
C H A P. IV. 
The continuation of the fournej to lender ^ and 
firfl of the Tom of Lar. 
AFter many ups and downs and a great deal of turning and winding between 
Hills, amongli: many Tamarisk and fome Conar- Trees v about five a Clock 
we arrived at the Dutch Houfe, which is near the Town of Lar^ three Agatfch from The Dutch 
Tai Chotali, but thefe Agatfch feemed to me to be very long; this is a very neat Houfe, 
Houfe, with lovely Courts and Chambers, and a fair Stable after the Frankj Fa- 
ftiion : it belongs to the Vittcb Company. There is a Kervanferay a little far- 
ther whither the Caravans go, but both Franks and Armenians Lodge at the 
Vntch Houfe. 
We flayed three days in the Town of Lar, which hath always been, as at pre- Lur. 
fentitis, the chief Town cjf the Province i it was heretofore the relidence of the 
King of that Country, to wit, when the Guebres were Mafteis of it : the great The Gmhrss 
Schab Abbas tock it from them, and now a Chan retides there, who Commands the ^^ftcrs of 
whole Province, which is called Ghermes, ^nd reaches to the very Gates of Gom- ^l^fff^^ 
ron. This Town (which is four days Journy {ïomGomron^ and feated on a Rock,) 
is but fmall ■■, it hath no Walls, but only a forry Ditch, beyond which are ftveral 
Houfes pretty well bui't, of which the T>Htch Houfe is one, and thcfe make a Jiind 
of Suburbs fo it. There is nothing to be feen at Lar^ but the Chans Houfe, the 
Market-Place, the Bazar r and the Caflle. The Chans Houfe looks to the Ditch i The Houfe of 
the Walls of it are very high on that fide, and at the farther end there is a Divan the cbaK of 
covered,fit for taking the frelh Air in v the entry into that Houfe is from the Market- 
Place, which is very pretty, it is a Square, with Arches all round, and Terraffcs 
on the top, along which there is a row of Rails and Ballifters for aborder, thefe 
Ballilters conflit of Arches interlaced^ about two foot high, made of narrow ftones 
about four Fingers thick : In the middle of the Eaft fide of the Square, is the Porch 
of the Chans HouÇe, which juts out a little into the place v and hath feven Fronts, 
on ttie oppofitefide over againft this Porch, there is a large Gate, over which there 
is a great covered Divan. The entry into the Bazars is by that Gate, and they are Lovely Bn^m 
very fair and large, well covered and paved with broad fmooth Free-llone : amongft in Lar. 
others there is one, covered in the middle by a very large handfome Dame^ which 
hath well furnilhed Shops. Having paiïed the Bjzars and croffed the Town,which is 
but narrow, and reaches in length from South to North, you come to the Quarter 
of the Jeivs, who are very numerous in this Town i they live near the foot of the Many Jem ia 
Hill, on which the Cattle ftands, which reaches, (as the Hill does,) South ind North, L,<tr. 
and is to IFeli of the Town. This Caflle is very long and built all of Itoné, the The Caftle of 
Walls of it feem to be good, and have Towers at fome intervals ; the Hill on which Lur, 
it ftands is a mere Rock, fteep almoft on all fides ; this Calile Commands all 
round it, and thereisa Wall drawn from it with fome Towers, a little down the 
fide of the Hill : in Ihort, it is ftrong, confidering the Country, and was built by the 
Guebres. All the Country about Lar is full of Tamarisks, which are very big, and Abundance of 
I never faw fo many together in one place. ^^''"^^^ 
S 2 There 
