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TEHERAN TO TABRIZ. 
country all around was in a high state of verdure. I went to the top of 
the gate of the tomb, from which I took the following bearings: Tehe¬ 
ran N. 70 E.; DemawencL N. 50 E.; extremity of the Albores (at the 
foot of which leads the road to Casvin) N. 70 W.; Rey S. 45 E. 
8th. After having conversed with Sir Harford on matters of busi¬ 
ness, I slept till three in the morning, and then sat off. Sir Harford 
accompanied us for some time, but quitted us at half an hour after 
sun-rise. 
The plain of Teheran is covered with villages: I could count twenty 
to the right and to the left. The road followed, as far as Karatch, the 
bearing of N. 70 W. which I had taken on the preceding day. At 
about ten miles from the Imaum Reza, we came to a dike cut from the 
river at Karatch , from which our water-carriers were used to bring 
drinking-water for our party at Teheran. At about six miles from 
Imaum Reza is a village called Geldisi, distant three miles on the left: 
another at the foot of the Albores called Rend; further on the left is 
Ali-shah-abad, a larger place, with many trees around; then Sherar; 
theh high on the hills to the right a pretty village called Boragoun. As 
we approached we saw the bed of the river called Aub Karatch , run¬ 
ning about S. W. which I am told takes its source in the Albores , and 
runs towards Kinar-a-Gird. The bed is large, but it was then only 
partially filled. We crossed at the winding of the road over a brick 
bridge of two arches of different sizes: near it are some ruins of 
other brick buildings, apparently of the same age. In this spot is an 
inlet of the mountains, which seems to form a pretty plain, and in which 
I remarked some hamlets. 
The tomb of the son of Imaum Hass an renders Karatch a pleasing 
object at a distance. The dome is shaded by the rich foliage of two 
fine chenar trees, and a stream cut from the river runs near the walls. 
The Persian Envoy informed me that this village, and those on the plain, 
belong to his brother-in-law the Ameen-ed-Boulah , and were formerly 
the property of his uncle the late Prime Minister. The Mirza himself 
