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SHIRAZ. 
ceiling and walls are all parcelled out into compartments, which 
display equal execution. From the window I took a sketch of the 
tomb of Hafjz, which lay contiguous to it on the left hand. The town 
of Shiraz , with all its campagna, was full before my sight; whilst the 
setting sun threw the softest and most beautiful tints over the fine 
scenery of the surrounding mountains. (See Plate XIV.) In the centre of 
the bagh or garden is another of the principal pleasure-houses, which 
they call koola-frangee or Frank's hat, because it is built something in 
the shape of one. There is a basin in the middle of the principal room, 
where a fountain plays and refreshes the air. The paintings and orna¬ 
ments are not less beautiful and are more varied, than those of the last 
described building. The cornices are laid out into small compartments, 
where the painter has exerted his genius and fancy in delineating the 
most fantastical litttle pictures. Here are hunts of lions, there the com¬ 
bats of elephants and dragons: in one corner are dancing bears and 
monkies, in another are represented the heroes and heroines of fairy 
tales. The whole procession and amusements of a marriage are drawn 
in one compartment, and next to them all the ceremonies of a circum¬ 
cision. In short, if the painter's art had been equal to his fancy, these 
different compositions would have excited as much admiration as they 
now afforded amusement. The whole soil of this garden is artificial, 
having been excavated from the area below, and raised into a high 
terrace. The garden is now falling into decay ; but those who saw it in 
the reign of Kerim Kiian delight to describe its splendour, and do 
not cease to give the most ravishing pictures of the beauty of all the 
environs of his capital. 
Having enjoyed the present remains of the scene, we returned to the 
high road (on the right of which it is situated) and followed it to the 
Tengui-Ali-Acbar , a fortified pass-in the time of the greatness of Shiraz, 
and long indeed before that time. Here are the remains of that gate, 
of which Le Brun in his travels has given a very correct drawing. 
From the situation in which I sketched the ruin, I fancy that I must 
have rested upon the very stone where Le Brun took his view: and 
