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took up his lodgings in the tomb; my Mehmandar put us in the house 
of a peasant, which was clean though small; the people here burn cakes 
of cow-dung for their common fuel. In a little enclosure behind the 
house was a vine. The sun-set N. 70 W. 
9th. We departed from Karatch at one o'clock in the morning, 
and, as well as I could ascertain our bearing by the stars, continued 
our route in the direction of the preceding day. T wo fursungs from 
Karatch , in a plain of immense extent, is Kemelabad. We were told 
that the road to our stage through the plain was swampy ; we there* 
fore chose another to the right, which (after a ride of four hours and a 
half, and a distance perhaps of sixteen miles) brought us, about sun- 
rise, to a delightful village called Koran. 
On the breaking of the morning we had discovered an immense 
plain, so thickly strewed with villages, that no one could repeat to me 
all their names. The whole, in number about one hundred, compose 
the holouk or district of Souj-bolouk, and are mostly under the Ameen - 
ed-Doulah. 
At Koran we saw the Hakim or Governor, as he was setting out on 
an expedition to collect the tribute from the peasantry. The village 
and the surrounding territory are delightfully watered by a river, 
which, issuing from between an Eastern and a Western chain of moun¬ 
tains, flows through a very steep channel, (in a N. and S. direction, 
after meandering some time from E. to W.) A great number of 
dikes, are cut from it, and extend the fertility beyond the course of 
the river, through the whole plain; which, particularly near the villages, 
is admirably cultivated. 
From Koran we returned to the line, and met the road at a point 
where stood a caravanserai and a tomb, both in ruins, and a clump of 
trees. We were four hours in reaching Gauzir-seng, our Menzil t a 
total distance from Karatch of twenty-eight miles. 
In the plain through which we passed, we saw at a distance about 
five tumuli. They are such as are seen on the plains of Troy , and here 
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