TABRIZ TO ARZ-ROUM. 
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arrival he eats liis choshta, or intermediate meal, and then sleeps. At 
sun-set he takes another repast (his noshtd); and his servants then pack 
up every thing ready for his departure the next morning. He proceeds 
by easy stages, generally from five to six leagues a-day, which, as he 
always rides his own horses, is a good day's journey at the common rate 
of travelling. If he has a Melimandar with him, he is fed and lodged 
and travels entirely at the public expence. When the Melimandar arrives 
at the village, he produces his firman , (in which the kind and quantity 
of the articles to be provided are specified;) and demands a correspon¬ 
dent supply from the inhabitants. 
1st June, 1809- We left the Khoi gate of Tabriz at seven o'clock, 
and in six hours and a half reached Ali Shah, a distance called by the 
people of the country six fursungs , and which I reckoned at twenty-four 
miles. From the top of our lodging at Ali Shah, I could see the mountain 
near which Tabriz is situated, I can therefore place exactly the bearing 
of our route, at N. 75 W. We kept to the Eastward of the plain in 
consequence of the difficulties along the road through the centre, which 
was then in many places overflowed 
Near Tabriz on the left, are some gardens and houses, called Hack - 
navar; then the village of Mayan. To the Eastward of the city 
itself, is a conspicuous hill called the Bahalil Tape, which abounds in 
every kind of game. Having travelled three miles from Tabriz on a 
bearing nearly N. we came to a bridge of nine large and three small 
arches, thrown over the river Agi, which, flowing from E. to W. falls 
at length into the lake of Shahee. The river rises near Ardebil ; and 
is fordable by mules where we ^tossed it, though we prefered the 
bridge, which happened indeed to be in better repair than those be¬ 
tween Teheran and Tabriz. At about four miles from the city, we 
passed a village called Alwar ; and three miles further another of the 
same name, each surrounded with a cultivated territory, intersected 
by a thousand dikes and kanauts. The greatest part of the plain is of 
a soil strongly impregnated with salt; and as in every other district of 
