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I fliall not obferveany thing here, of what I faw in Verfia on my return 
from Bender- Abajfi to IJfahan, becauie I have amply written of that in my 
fécond Volume : All I intend to fay, is, that having agreed with a Muktor 
who was going to Tauris^ we went out of Ijpahan by the Gate of Tockcbi ^ that ^^""^ of 
I found it to be a fine Countrey , abounding in Cotton^ and full of Villages ^fP^^""- 
and heat Pigeon-Houfes,and that about four Leagues from Ifpahan , the Mu- » 
letors obliged us to tarry fix days in a Kervanferay , at a Village called Sin , 
where the Arrmnians made them ftay for the i^ft of the Cara-van -, which ve- 
ry much incommoded me , becaufe of the itid^tivenience of the place , and 
there I had a Feavor and Ague. We put out from thence the laft day of ' 
O^o^cr-, there were no lefs than two hundred Mules in the Caravan, and 
fome Camels alfo : After four days Mareh we came to Cacban, having paft 
large barren Plains, and therefore we had no pleafure in our Journey before 
we came to a Bourg called Gourahad, where we refted our felves in Gardens 
full of Fruits , and furnifhed with excellent water. 
The Town of Cacha» is begirt with a Ditch and two Walls, which began 
to be ruinous -, it is two hours march in circuit -, the Bazars of the Town are 
Arched, and have the light by round Windows , which are in the Arches 
at a Fathoms diftance one from another, and thefe Bazars being very large, 
I went too and again in them a long while on Horfe-back : This is a Town 
of much Trade, and the Shops are as well furniftied as at Ifpahan. 
They work here in Gold and Silk , and the lovely Flowefd Girdles that 
are carried to Ifpahan^zre made in this Town, as alfo moft excellent Earthen 
Ware , which is fold through the reft of Fer fia and in the Indies. 
The Kervanferas are pretty well buik,but the private Houfes are fo ugly, 
(that except the Kings Houfe,)there is not any worth the minding: There is 
â Meidan there as in other Towns,and I was told there were Scorpions there 
as long as ones finger jWhofe Sting was mortal -, but the people of the Coun- 
trey affirm,that they do no hurt to ftrangers_, which I take to be a Fable,and 
I faw none of them \ we ftayed three days there, and leaving it on the third, 
we came to the Town of Com. com. 
This Town hath a Ditch and Earthen Walls like to thofe of a Village , 
and are ruined in feveral places -, it will require two hours to make the cir- 
cuit of it. The Streets are wide and ftreight , and the Bazars narrow ; the 
Meidan is a pretty handfom fquare -, the Palace of the King, and Houfes of 
the great Men are in the Suburbs. King Cha-Abas the Second died there, and 
there lyes buried. 
The Sepulchres oîMafouwe , Sifter to Imam-Riza , and of the Kings Sefi The Sepulchres 
the firft, and the fécond , are in one Mofque there , into which they oîMajoume. 
enter by three doors -, the Porch of it is Arched , the Pavement covered sefi i. 
with Carpets , and the Walls varnilhed with feveral Colours -, from the ^^^^ ' 
Porch one enters into a dome which receives no light but by two doors , of 
which the Shutters that are feven or eight Foot high , and about a Fathom 
broad are of Silver, and the Threfliold of the fame Metal ^ the Dome is 
Arched and adorned with Niches, Folliages and painted Flowers : The 
Tomb of Mafoume (which is of grayifli Marble) is in the middle , and is full 
feven foot high, it is fquare, and each fide about three Fathom long ^ it is 
enclofed within a Silver-Grate , and the Grate is not above three fingers 
breadth from the Tomb -, there are Alcorans at the fides of it, and tWo Ta- 
bles faftened to the Grate, with Prayers of the Akoran upon them, for thofe 
who go thither in Devotion -, ther€ are Lamps alfo , but they are not 
lighted. 
The Body of the Mofque goes quite round the Chappel of Mafoume , the 
Pavement of it is covered with Carpet ^ at the end of the Temple (on the 
right fide,) is the Chappel of Cha-Sefi, which is Arched, and the entry into '^cS'sfr^ 
it is by two Silver-Gates,the Threfliolds being of the fame Metal -, his Tomb ° 
is covered with Cloath of Gold, and I found there a Moula repeating the Al- 
coran -, behind the Tomb there is a Silver-Grate a Fathom nigh and three 
Fathom broad, going out of that Chappel one fees the Chappel of Cha-Abof 
the Secondjwhich is diredly oppofite to it ^ it hath likewife the Doors and 
Threfliolds 
