Part II. T ravels into the L e v a n t. 
Wtji to Ea/fi- that they extend feverally in length from North to South-, that each 
of the two fiift ranges contain four Buildings, and two Courts : the laft has Hve 
Building?, whereof the third is the biggcft of all. It muft not be imagined that 
all thefe ftand in lircight lines, and are of an equal height \ for fome Terraffes are 
higher than others, which I think I have fufficiently intimated already in the 
particular defcription I have given. Amongft all thefe Buildings there are fe- 
veral Canals under Ground, which have ferved for the conveying water : all 
together takes up a great fpace in Semicircle formed by the Hill where the 
two Sepulchres arc. It is Terrafled in feveral places, efpecially towards the Hill 
which is to the IFefl. As to the ruins in particular^ I have mentioned all that I 
could give any Idea of : but if the curious think it not enough, or that it is a little 
confufcd, I pray them to confider, that if I had faid more it would have been 
more confufcd, and that it is very hard to obferve much order in the relation of 
things, which the procefs of many Ages, the weather, and even the malice of Men, 
have put into extream confufion. Beyond Tfchthel-minar^ towards the Souths there 
is a Pillar ftanding all alone, and to the North fide a Gate by it felf too. Befides 
thefe fo famous Antiquities of ifchehel minar^ there are fome in another place no 
lefs worth the obfervation of Travellers, and of thofe who may Read their rela- 
tions j they are Norths North- Jf^eji from tfchehel-minar i and North and by Eaft from 
the Village Mirk^s Chan^ at an Agatfch and a halfs diftance. The place where 
they are to be feen is called Nah^hi Kujlan, (that is to fay) the Pidurcs of Rujian, The amiqiiJ- , 
becaufe ("as fome very ignorantly fay,) they are a reprefentation of the Adions of of Na^chi 
Rttfian. Going then from Mirk^s- Chatty North-Eaft^ you pafs many waters, and 
amongft others, the little River of Pelvar : upon the Road, to the Right Hand peivar. 
Eaji and by Souths you fee upon a little eminence half an Agatfch off, a ftanding 
Pillar ; the people of the Country fay, that in that place there was a Gate of the a ftanding 
City of Solomon., of which I (lull fpeak hereafter. After about an hour and a Pillar, 
h^lfs Journy, you come to a Hill that is meer Rock, and in that place faces the 
South., but at one place, it bends a little in a right Angle from South to North, 
and then turns from Eaft to Weft again. In this place that reaches South znà 
N^rth, and looks to the IVeft, there is a Frontifpiece cut in the natural Rock, a Frontif- 
much like to thofe I have been defcribing, that are to be feen on the Hill cf Tfche- piece on the 
hel-minar \ only there is tills difference, that this is higher from the Ground, for 
at the foot, it is nothing but the bare Rock, till five Fathom high -, and then it 
is cut very fnnooth, like a large Copper^plate on a Wall, for about three Fathom 
high : over that is the Frontifpiece, of the fame order and with the fame Fi* 
gures, as thofe of Tfchehehmitfar^ five only that this Frontifpiece is cut deeper in, 
and that in ftead of the Figures of Men carrying Pikes, which are at the fides of the 
fécond range, and reft upon the twoendsof thefirftj on this there are fix Figures 
on each fide about two Foot high, to wit three over one another, and as many on 
the border in right Angle : all this is in retreat, as it is at Tfchehel-minar., nevethelefs 
the fccond range ftands out as far as the Architrave on which it refts -, I have made a 
little Sketch of this which will ferve to give an Idea of thofe of Ifchehel-minar. 
About thirty fteps from thence, you fee a kind of a fmooth Table, two Foot 
high from the Ground, upon the Rock that looks to the South., and reaches from 
Eaft to IVeft^ but there is nothing upon it » though it feems there have been fome 
Figures ftruck off with a Hammer or Chiziel : on the farther fide of that broad 
Table, there is another with Demi-reliefs, half buried under the Ground that is Bas-tcHefti 
gathered about it i it is three Fathom long, and feems to be half as high : there 
you fee three Gigantick Figures -, the firft feems to be a Woman with a Necklace 
of large Pearls, and her Hair wound up in form of a long Perewinckle > on her 
Head Ihe hath a Crown, and over it, I cannot tell, whether it be her Hair, or the 
ends of Feathers: (he pulls towards her a Ring, which on the other fide draws 
towards it a Figure that appears to be of a Man, though it hath a Necklace of 
Pearls i he hath a very high Cap, and round at the top, (haped below like a Crown, 
and long Curled Hair : behind him there is another Man, with a thing like a Mitre 
on his Head i and fome other ruinous figures. 
fifty paces trom therice there is a Frontifpiece like the former, but neither it, nor 
thofe that follow are above a Fathom from the Ground, which in this place is much 
raifed with the tiir.e ; under this Frontifpiece, there is Table of Bas-reliefs, reaching 
down to the Ground, whereon Men are reprefentcd Fighting on Horfc-baek, but 
