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SHIRAZ. 
31st. Nasr O allah Khan, accompanied by many of the greatest 
men of Shiraz , paid their visit of ceremony to the Envoy. The mini¬ 
ster s manners were plain, his features hard, and his beard peculiarly 
black. The usual routine of complimentary speeches and of other cere¬ 
monies occupied both parties during his stay. The Envoy, from the 
pressing invitation of the court, determined to hasten his departure 
towards Teheran; and eight days were fixed for our stay at Shiraz, 
though circumstances afterwards occasioned a further delay. 
Shi mi has six gates : it is divided into twelve mahalehs or parishes, 
in which there are fifteen considerable mosques, besides many others 
of inferior note; eleven medre'ss'es or colleges, fourteen bazars , thirteen 
caravanserais , and twenty-six hummums or baths. Of the gardens round, 
the principal are private property. 
Of all the mosques, the Mesjed Ali (built in the Khalifat of Abbas) 
is-the most , ancient, and the Mesjid No the largest. It was indeed ori¬ 
ginally the palace of Attabek 'Shaii, who, in a dangerous illness of 
his son, consulted the Mollahs, and was answered, (as the only means 
of the recovery of his child) that he must devote to the Almighty that, 
which of all his worldly goods he valued most. He accordingly con¬ 
verted his palace into a mosque, and the Mahomedans add, that his 
son Was in consequence restored to health. The Mesjid Jmneh is 
likewise an ancient structure, and there are six others of an older date 
than the time of Kerim Khan. Of the more modern mosques of 
Shiraz the Mesjid Vakeel, the only one built by that Prince, is the 
most beautiful. 
Kerim Khan begun a college, but never finished it: there were 
already six, one of the earliest of which (that founded by Im au m Kouli 
Khan) is still the most frequented. Another was added by Haushem, 
father of Hajee Ibrahim, the Vizier of the late King ; and the Peish 
Namaz and Mooshtehed (Chief Priest of the city) built another. 
The trades in Persia as in Turkey are earned on in separate bazars, 
in which their shops are extended adjacent to each other on both sides 
