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circumference of one hundred and twenty feet. On the summit, 
between two rows of ornaments in brick, is an inscription in the 
Cuffick character; the letters of which are formed by small inlaid 
bricks. The interior was so full of straw and other rubbish, that we 
could not explore it; the door is to the eastward. The style of building 
resembles much that of the Seffis; with this difference, that the 
bricks are put together with a greater portion of mortar, and are of a 
rather darker colour. About three miles to the Southward on an in¬ 
sulated hill are other buildings, and a turret of the same style as the 
one just described ; and between both is a round tower of stone, with a 
Cuffick inscription in brick-work. In this turret we observed through 
a window, that there was a winding staircase in the wall, but we could 
not find the entrance to it. 
Still further on, on the brow of a hill close under the mountain, is a 
building, partly of ancient and partly of modern construction; this is 
the tomb of one of the wives of Imaum Hossein. It is composed of 
two courts and two inner rooms ; three old women officiate here over 
the remains of their female saint. There is much running water all 
around; part issues from a spring, which gushes out from under a 
rock. The mountains are arid, with surfaces indicating much mineral 
below. 
Hey is the Usages of To bit, and is the city where Alexander 
rested five days in his pursuit after Darius; after he had made a 
march of eleven days from Ecbatana or Hamadan . Arrian calls this 
city one day's journey from the Caspian Streights. 
Hey was reduced by Hubbe, the general of Jenghiz Khan; 
and from its scattered population arose the town of Teheran . Near 
the ruins is still a village called Shah Abdul Azeem , with a Zeeauret or 
place of worship. 
Of ancient Persia I learned little. Currimabad is, perhaps, the Cor- 
biana of geography. Near Shiraz is a Bolouk of eighteen villages, 
called Fasa, from its chief place, which itself is about five or six 
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