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under Shah Abbas — a contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth. 
The river Zendali Rud, which separates the town from 
Julfa, is spanned by five noteworthy bridges all different 
in construction — one of which is three hundred and eighty- 
eight yards long and fourteen yards broad. 
Tabriz though not so large as Ispahan is perhaps more 
beautiful. It is surrounded by gardens which cover an area 
of many square miles and which produce the raisin-grape 
and almond for which the town is noted. A fine slide 
was thrown upon the screen illustrating the Blue Mosque, 
a wonderful building once encrusted with blue tiles. Tabriz 
unfortunately suffers greatly from earthquake and quite 
recently the ancient citadel of the town was entirely des- 
troyed by seismic disturbace. 
The other towns described were Kashan, Hamadan, and 
Kum. 
In an exceedingly interesting portion of his lecture, Mr. 
Flinn was able to give his audience some information as to 
the course of events in Bushire and Ispahan during the 
present war. He read to his audience a letter, dated August 
16th, 1915, and received from a colleague in Bushire, describ- 
ing how Bushire had fared at the hands of marauding bands 
which made nightly incursions on the British populace. The 
letter was more than usually interesting as it was brought 
to the notice of the audience on the day the British Foreign 
Office announced the outrages against the representatives of 
the Allies in Teheran and elsewhere. 
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