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TEHERAN TO TABRIZ. 
clothed from its own produce. On entering the town there is an im¬ 
mense enclosed garden full of every species of trees. 
16th. From Zengan we went to Armaghaneh> and were six hours on 
the road; on a general bearing of N. I call this also twenty-four miles, 
as we walked a good pace. On the left, in a valley, I saw several 
villages; the two principal of which are KousheJc and Barri. Others 
are also situated on the declivity of the hills; the road all the way is 
full of ascents and descents; and at about five miles from Zengan we 
came to a valley, perhaps a bend and a continuation of that which we 
had already noticed. At the bottom flowed from E. to W. a stream of 
beautiful water, which came from the mountains to the N. E. of our 
route, and which was formed indeed principally by the melting of their 
snows and the rains. In its vicinity was much cultivated ground; and 
the peasants had raised its waters in many places to carry the fertility 
still further into the fields. At the interval of about six miles there is 
a similar valley and a similar stream, the waters, of which equally assist 
the cultivation of the country, and redeem it from the waste of the in¬ 
termediate tract. We saw many tents of Elauts of the tribe Choi - 
sevejid , whose cattle were grazing in the line between the two streams. 
They were represented to me as very warlike and brave, on which ac¬ 
count the King enrolled many of them in his Goolams and troops; and 
I was told, that they had been the principal heroes in the war with the 
Russians. Their tribe consists of six thousand families. Their chief is 
at Teheran , and is a Khan of much consequence. They live always 
in tents, changing their situation with the seasons, and are very rich in 
camels. After having crossed the second stream we rested, and fed 
our horses on the new barley, which was there about a knee high. As we 
proceeded we met a caravan of pilgrims, from JDerbend on the Caspian , 
going to the Zeeauret of Mesched. Not one could speak a word of 
Persian; indeed Turkish, from this point and henceforward, is the ver¬ 
nacular language spoken by the people of the villages; and it is rather 
rare to find any one of the inhabitants who can talk Persian fluently. 
These pilgrims wore a white band about their sheep-skin caps as a mark 
