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“expectation the Potshaugh,” (the Padishah ) “ puld of his turbant; by discovering his 
“ bald head, symbolising his affection; and after an houres merriment departed.” This 
object of Abbas was again similarly attempted by Shah Suleyman. Mod. Univ. Ilist. 
vol. vi. 16. Shah Seffi in a caprice chose to prohibit tobacco, and executed two 
foreign merchants for disobeying the order, as Sultan Murad did in Turkey for the same 
offence. Rycaut, p. 59; see p. 43, against wine. Shah Seffi himself drank to excess; 
but having in a fit of intoxication killed one of his wives, he published a mandate through 
all his dominions, that no one should drink wine; and that the Governors should stave all 
the casks and spill the liquor wherever it was found. Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. v. p. 471-2, 
p. 475. Shah Hussein, vol. vi. 21, prohibited wine by his first act, though he afterwards 
was tempted to indulge in it; but when Bell was in Persia, the King was still sober and 
devout, and drank no wine, which in consequence was not used by his court. Bell, i. 107, 
see p. 116. Nadir Shah and Kerim Khan permitted the use of wine: but Aga ; 
Mahomed, u cruel, feroce au dela de toute expression, faisait ouvrir le ventre a ceux 
“ de ces sujets Musulmans qui etaient accuses de boire du vin.” Olivier, tom. v. p. 136. 
Mourtcliehourd, p. 176.]—The difficulty of ascertaining a fact in the ancient history of 
Persia, may be estimated by the contradictions in a very modern period, in an event of 
extreme importance, and in the relations of contemporary authors. The battle of 
MourtcheJcourd, which decided the fate of Persia, was fought, according to Jones’s Life 
of Nadir, on the 13th November, 1728. Otter, who accompanied an Embassy to 
Nadir, says November, 1730. Gardanne, the French Consul, who was at Ispahan at 
the time, says November, 1729. See Olivier, vol. v. p. 375. 
P. 186.]—Of the King of Persia’s own poems, see a specimen in Scott Waring. 
See also Gardanne, p. 76. 
Lion and Bear, p. 187.]—In Bell’s time, there were two lions at the court of Persia, 
who couched to the Embassador as he passed, p. 100-1. When the Greek Embassador 
was presented to the Caliph Moctader, A. D. 917, “ one hundred lions were brought 
out, with a keeper to each lion.” Gibbon, 4to. v. p. 420. 
Introduction, p. 128.]— Bell’s description is striking, “ at our entry into the hall, we 
“ were stopped about three minutes at the first fountain, in order to raise the greater 
“ respect; the pipes were contrived to play so high, that the water fell into the basin like 
“thick rain. Nothing could be distinguished for some time; and the Schach himself 
“ appeared as in a fog. While we moved forward, every thing was as still as death.” 
vol. i. p. 103. 
Zejn Labadeen, p. 176.]—The Zain Labadeen, called in the text the brother of 
Hossein, is probably Ali, his youngest son, called afterwards Zein Alab’beddin, “ the 
“ ornament of the religious.” Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. ii. p. 101. Franklin, p. 180. 
