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TABRIZ TO ARZ-ROUM. 
mile, than in our circumstances to remain idle for one single day. Ac¬ 
cordingly, notwithstanding the pressing invitation of Nejef Kooli 
Khan, the Governor, to stay the day with him, we departed for 
Pirfrh, a village two fursungs from Khoi, which I call six miles, and in 
a bearing of N. 60 W. The morning was one of the loveliest in Spring, 
lightly covered with clouds, with a softness in the air which seemed to 
soothe every varied work of nature into tacit enjoyment of the bounty 
and munificence of their Almighty Creator. I shall ever recollect with 
thankfulness the delightful sensations which I experienced in passing 
the beautiful plain of Khoi; where every innocent sense received its 
gratification, and ripened into thoughts teeming with love and gratitude 
to their divine Maker. 
Every thing was rich and beautiful: the mountains were green to 
their very summits; and their inequalites were here and there enriched 
by beds of wild flowers of the most lively and luxuriant hues. Scarcely 
two miles from Khoi is a very large collection of houses and gardens, 
which is a Mahcitt or parish of the town, and is well inhabited. A 
stream from the mountains runs through it; and on the skirts to the N. 
are two pillars of brick, which are described either as the tomb or the 
cenotaph of a famous poet and learned Mollah of Tabriz , called ShemsL 
Pereh is a pretty village, situated on the declivity of the hills, which 
gradually form the bases of the adjoining mountains; on the summit of 
one of these hills is an old square fort, now in ruins : arid in its neigh- 
hood are two other villages called PesS and Zaide. There are walnut- 
trees, willows, poplars, elms, and fruit-trees of every description in the 
highest perfection, with a great profusion of grass. 
On this as well as on the other side of Tabriz , the peasants convey 
their loads on the backs of oxen, on which indeed they frequently ride 
themselves. At PSr&h I saw the first wheeled-carriage (excepting gun- 
carriages) that I had noticed in Persia. It was exactly similar to the 
Turkish Araba. Besides their plough, which I have already described, 
the Persians have the large rake, which serves as a harrow, and is fast- 
