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cipal villages on the left are Hossein-abad , Hassan-abad, Shahinerlou , 
Shahm-tape. Some on the right, are Angouri maliale , and compose 
part of a bolouk called Kou-paySh , belonging to Mirza Reza 
Kouli, who was Embassador to France, and signed the treaty of 
Fifykensteiii. 
At about seven miles from Casvin, we turned from the road at a small 
mud-walled village, to eat something ourselves, and to give our horses 
some grass. On entering a room, the master talked Turkish to me, and 
said that he had seen me before at Constantinople . In fact I recognised 
him as one of those whom I had seen at Constantinople , with the 
Persian Embassy to France. He talked to me with much pleasure of 
Frangistoon or Europe : and this man, who boasts of having sat in the 
same room, and of having been taken by the hand by Buonaparte 
himself, now lives in misery and solitude in an unknown village. It is 
not uninteresting to know the extreme attention which Buonaparte 
paid to his Persian guests. He lodged the Embassador and his suite 
in an house adjacent to his own at Finkenstein , and every day used to 
walk in amongst them, take them by the hand, and use every little art 
to conciliate their affections. 
We reached Casvin at half past twelve. The day was hot and suffo¬ 
cating, and there was an appearance of storm in the Westward. For 
about two miles before we entered the gates, we passed by fields and 
gardens, mostly producing vines, which, as I am told, yield the best 
grape in Persia. This place labours under great inconvenience from the 
want of water; indeed, through the whole extent of the immense plain, 
that we traversed during the day, there was not one natural stream ; 
Jbut many kanauts were making, and wherever there is irrigation, there 
is fertility, and the cultivation is rich. Upon the whole therefore, our 
route from Teheran displayed a country of much more promising ap¬ 
pearance, than (if we had trusted only to the experience of our own 
journey from Bushire to the capital) we might have expected in Persia. 
The brother of the Minister of Sheik Ali Khan, one of the King's 
sons, and Governor of the city, came out to meet us as an istakbally 
