Part IL Travels into the Levant. 
We went downwards afterwards, by a very rugged defcent czWtà Chotal Onjcht- chotd Ot0i 
nec\\ in former times it was more rugged, and I believe that neither Men not "^'^t- 
Bealls could pafs iti but the Mother of Imam- Couli- Chan, Governour oï Schiras, 
called Volt Naamet, caufed the paffage to be made as now it is. The Rock in many 
places is cutinthe fa(hion of fteps, in other places it is Paved, and all over (wherd 
the way is fo narrow, tbatBeafts making a falfe ftep were in danger of tumbling 
into a Precipice,) there is a Parapet made of Hone about a Foot and a half high, 
and a Foot thick, fo that now it is paffable, though a great way of it one muft 
alight and lead -, being come to the bottom of that defcent, for near three quarters 
of an hour we had very ftony way> and then came to a lovely Spring of water, vt?hich 
fpreads fo oyer the Country, that with its waters it covers a very large Plain -, it is 
called Jbghine. We faw that water the day before, from Mount Andgira though Abghine, 
there be a great Hill betwixt them. We paffed it at a narrow place upon a Bridge 
of two Arches, which is all ruinous, and is called Toul-Abghine. Having Tx3.ws.\- 'PouUAbihine, 
led on two hours and a half more, over a barren Plain, about half an hour after ten, 
we came to Karzerum, fix farafanges and a half from the laft Stage. Karzerum is a J^ar-xfrm.- 
Town of many Houfes, but all fo miferable, that in our Country the greateft Com- 
pliment that could be put upon it, would be to call it Bourg or Village, becaufe it 
has a Market-place it depends on the Vizir oï Schiras, and is Commanded by a 
KelonUr\ there are two or three good Kervanferays it it i and the water they drink 
there, is brought above half a League from the Town, but both in it and the 
Kervanferays there is water good enough for Beafts and the Kitchin. Here they 
would have feized our Mules to carry Provifions for the King to Ifpahan, but 
the Reverend Father Provincial, going to wait upon the Kelontir to reprefent to 
him that we were Franks h fo foon as the Kdonter faw him, he ordered that our 
Mules fliould not be taken, becauie we were ftrangers. They have a great many 
Grapes and Melons here, and make Wine that may be made ufe of. 
We parted from Karzernm, Friday the fécond of Oâeber at two of the Clock 
in the Morning, and Travelled on ftill Wefiwards in very good way. Half an hour 
after four we paffed by a forry Village called Dr/V, where they have no water to 
drink, but what is taken out of a little Lake. About fix a Clock we paffed by 
a little River that runs in a bottom, and there is a way along the fide of it i we 
took not that way, but leaving both it and the River, ftiuck off to the Left Hand 
by a very ftony way i about feven a Clock we began to go up Hill in bad 
way, and a quarter of an hour after, found a Lodge of Kahdars, to whom we 
made a Prcfent of fome Casheghisy and kept on mounting upwards, till about 
eight a Clock i and then having dcfcended a little, wc came into a very even 
Plain, but which produces nothing, though there be not one ftone in it. Having 
Travelled therein an hour, we pafl'ed by a Village called Kangh Jurkon, and ftill i^angk Tur^onl 
kept on in the fame Plain, till we came to a Village called Kamaredge, at the far- Kj^rmndge. 
ther end of it. This Village is fix Farafanges from Karzerum : we arrived 
there half an hour after nine, and Lodged in a Houfe, that was lent us, for 
fome fmall Gratuity i the water we drank there \z taken out of a Well 
clofe by. 
We parted from that Village Saturday the third of O&ober, half an hour after 
three a Clock in the Morning. A little after, we paffed by z Kervanferay, called 
Kervanferay Khodgia Belfet i it is not opened but in the Winter-time, when it Rains K^odgiit Bilfm 
or Snows, the reft ot the Year it is fhut, and no body Lodges in it. We continued 
going IVelirpard, but the Way was very bad : about four a Clock, the way was fo 
narrow, that only one Mule could pafs at a time ', it lyes betwixt two Hills that are 
very near one another, but it is not above an hundred paces long : immediately 
after we entered into another narrow pafs among the Hills, where the way is no 
broader, and we went down Hill in very bad way, until three quarters of an ^ 
hour after four : there we found a Caravan of feveral Mules and Camels, which 
were coming from Bender K/i^, and we met with feveral others afterward every 
day. Then we went up Hill for about a quarter of an hour, and afterwards went 
down Hill again till fix of the Clock, in very irkfome way, and amongrt dread- 
ful Precipices, being fteep black Rocks, where one is often forced to alight for fear 
of tunabling headlong. After that we had good way, but ftill amongft Hills until 
half an hour after fix, that we found a great broad and deep River, called Kondchom RoudchoneBoHA 
Bonfchavir, the water of Which tafts â little fweetilhi the fource of it is near the Z^^'**""* 
Town 
