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TEHERAN TO TABRIZ. 
They are principally poplar (almost the only tree indeed which we had 
remarked in our route) and many are felled for building. Within two 
miles of Tabriz there is a village on a hillock, called Condorood; and 
immediately on the skirts of this spot is another, called Basmidge: 
on leaving which we saw great numbers of those square and oblong 
stones, so often mentioned in my Journal. As among them there are 
modern tombs, the original intent of the more ancient stones is cer¬ 
tainly the same. 
