Part IL Travels into the hE y a ^r. i /j.r 
to hold fomewhat ; the Right Hand is (Iretched out, as if ready to receive what 
is prefented to him. The figure that is by him fcenis to be ot' a Woman, for flic 
hath pretty round Breafts; neverthelcfs fhe wears a Sword by her fide, Hke to that 
which I have jull: now dtfciibed i her Head-attire feems to be the Cap of a Vewifch^ 
fomewhat long and all round ; upon her Left Shoillder (he hath a little Basket, or 
perhaps it is only the Trèfles of her Hair : (he feems to prefent fomething with her 
Right Hand, to the man who is looking towards her, and her Left Hand is lipon 
the Handle of her Sword. AU thefe Figures feem to have the Body naked, and 
only fome few foldings of a Garment towards the Legs. In fhortthe twolaltare 
almoftin the fame pofture and action as the two tirlti but one cannot tell what / 
it is they prefent to one another, for the extremities of their Hands, as well as 
many other parts of their Bodies, are worn out and eaten by the weather. The 
Work appears very well, hath been good, though all the proportions be not ex- 
adly obfe'rved. I looked about all along the Tide ot the Hill, but could fee no 
more i and I believe there has been fome Temple there. 
This place is fo covered with Trees, and encompafled by Mari{hes, by rea(bn 
of the many Springs thereabouts, that few people know of it i and of all the 
Frankj the Reverend Father Athanafius^ a bare-Footed Carmelite^ living at SchiraSy Father 
was the firft that found it out by chance, as he was walking in that place i and it "'fi"^' 
hieing my fortune to pafs by Schiraj fometime after, he led me to it. The people of 
the Country call that place Kadem-Ghah^ (that is to fay,) the place of the ftep s K'^^m-Ghdk 
becaufe, Cfaythey,) I know not what old Man walking in that place, a Spring of 
water gu(hed out under his Foot : it is but a few fteps wide of the High-way, that 
leads to the Salt-Lake, an Agatfch diftant from thence. 
Though all thefe Antiquities be curious enough, yet they are not that which 
they call the Antiquities of 'ïfchehel-minar, fo much mentioned in Relations, and 
which are in eife<fl, the fame at prefent in Perfia, as the Pyramids are in Egypty 
(that is to fay,) the fine(t thing in its kind that is to be feen, and the mo(t wor- 
thy of obfervation. One may go thither in coming from Jfpahan by Main^ or The way to 
Ahgherim^ and the way is not longi but the way to it from Scbiras is by Badgega^ j'^^^^ 
which is the firfi KtrvanÇerayxx^on the Road to Jfpahan h and after two hours march 
from thence, there are two ways, whereof that to the Left goes to Ifpahan^ you mud 
leave it, and take the way to the Right Hand which leads to Ifchehd-minar Having 
Travelled about two hours and a half that way in a pretty good Road amongll 
Heath, there is a Village on the Right Hand where one may ftop and bait. Having 
palTed this Village, you enter into a great Plain, where after you have Travelled 
three quarters of an hour, you pafs over a Caufey a Fathom and a half broad, and 
about an hundred paces in length ", a little after you find another three hundred 
paces long i and a little beyond that juH: fuch another : having Travelled a little 
farther, you go over another Caufey five hundred paces in length, beyond which, 
after three quarters of an hours Journy, you come to a great Bridge of two large 
Arches which is,called Pouli-Chan : in the middlemoft Pillar of it there is a Room 
with fome fteps to go down toit, which would be very delightful to take thcfrefli 
Air in, if it were not uninhabitable by reafon of the prodigious fwarms of Gnats 
that haunt it. The River of Bendemir tms under this Bridge, and is at that place 
broad, deep, and fullof Fi(h, the water looking very white; they aflurÊd me that 
it fwells fo high in the Winter-time that it reaches over the Arches, almoft level with 
the Parapet : after you have pafied that Bridge, and Travelled an hour longer in 
a Plain, you leave a Village upon your Left Hand, and an hour after another to the 
Right, and then within another hour you come to the Village called Mirchai-Chan^ 
rear to which is T'fchehel-mmar -, being but a quarter of an hours Journy from it. 
This Village ftands in a moft fpacious and Fruitful Plain, watered with a great 
many waters there you have a Kervanferay to Lodge in, becaufe in the Winter- 
time, it is the way from to Scbiras, and going Ea{itvardy but fomewhat to 
the South from this Village, you arrive at 7fchehd-mnar. 
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