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Our Guide had promifed to condud: us through plea- 
fant Groves and Forcfts* but no fuch thing appeared, 
unleft wc would beftow that name upon low withered 
Shrubs that grew in the Way, only one Tree we faw, 
which was of good ufe to us, (erviog as a Land-mark ; 
and when we were conie up with it, being left at a little 
diftance on the right-hand^ we gaio'd the profped of a 
remote ridge of Hills before us, and on the top of one 
of them an old Caftle ; this Caflle, we were told, was 
known by the Name of Gazar Iln Word^n ; but what 
it anciently was, or in what Condition it is at prefent, I 
could not learn 5 therefore, not unwillingly^ 1 turned my 
Eyes from it, to a little round Hill" more on the left, by 
which we were to dired our courfe, and about a quar- 
ter of an hour from which ftood a Sheck's Houfe, calFd 
Sheck Ailha^ where we were to bait, with a Well of 
Water by itv but fuch that we had but little gu[io to 
tafte, though it ferved our Horfes : All the Country 
hereabouts is ftor'd with Gazds^ and there is a barbarous 
fort of People there, that have hardly any thing elfe to 
five upon, but what of thefe they can kill | and Neceffity 
has taught them to be no mean Artifts in their way, for 
they lie down behind the Stones, and as the poor harm- 
lefs Creature pafles, flioot them and though their 
Guns be very ordinary, exceeding heavy and thick, 
with Match-Locks, yet are tbey fuch excellent Marks- 
men, that they kill many. That morning we had tra- 
velled about five hours to reach Sheck Ailhds ,• yet find- 
ing nothing to invite our ftay there, (though there were 
four or five Tombs there not ill made, according to the 
Turkifti mode,) about one a clock we mounted again^ 
bending to the S. E. or fomething more Eafterly. In 
our way we had two remarkable Profpeds, one on the 
right-hand, of the Ruines of an ancient City calfd Andc-> 
r/«, and fometimes hondrine^ which we were told had 
been formerly inhabited by Franks^ and that there were 
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