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ISPAHAN TO TEHERAN. 
DEPARTURE FROM ISPAHAN-MOURCIIEKOURD—SCENE OF THE 
VICTORY OF NADIR SHAH-RUINS-THE BUND KOHROOD- 
KASHAN-SALT DESERT-KOOMJ TOMB-POOL DALLAUK J AD¬ 
VENTURE IN THE NIGHT-VIEW OF TEHERAN-APPROACH—- 
ENTRANCE INTO THE CITY. 
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On the 7th of February, accordingly we left Ispahan; our first day's 
march, from Goush Khoneh to Gez, was a distance of ten miles only.] 
On the right of the road is a village called Say in, which, as we were told, 
produces the best melons in the country. The soil, over which we tra- Ju 
veiled, was soft and crumbling, and strongly impregnated with salt, and 
in parts rendered muddy and swampy by the streams which intersect 
it. The weather was lowering on all sides, with a breeze from the 
Westward; which here and there in little whirlwinds carried the sand 
high up into the air in columns, resembling water-spouts at sea. The 
whole plain is covered with ruins, from which only now and then a 
few miserable peasants crept out to gape at our passing troops. The 
dikes, cut from the banks of the Zaiande-rood, irrigate the whole 
of the plain, and produce a greater appearance of cultivation than 
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