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SHEHEREK. 
of this day’s march, which was terminated by a steep rise over a small 
hill: near to this our camp was pitched, whence we had a very extensive 
view of the country over which we had travelled since our departure 
from Tabriz, as well as of the mountains of Sahand, which separate 
the plain of Maragha from that of Tabriz. We could discern the long 
range that bounds the plain of Ojan, the high lands of Tekelteh, and. 
the noble mountain of Savalan, which completed the view to the east¬ 
ward. The plain below Sheherek was well watered and cultivated, and 
at this season abounded in large covies of the hokara kara, or black¬ 
breasted partridge. 
During the first part of our march from Sheherek, the mountain of 
Savalan was straight in front of us, and the deep shades of the morning 
twilight gave it a character of sublimity not to be described; for it is 
at this early part of the day that great masses, which then present a 
simple outline without details, produce the most powerful effect on the 
mind. After having travelled some time due east, we struck into 
mountains of abrupt and curious forms, of schistus and pudding-stone, 
&c.; which having passed, we descended gradually into a well-watered 
valley, through which flowed a small river, called the Ahar chat, which 
rises about six fursungs, or twenty-four miles, on a bearing of west, at 
Uzumdil, and flows by the town, and through the district of Ahar. 
We pitched our camp at Gevenjik 5 and the tract thence to Ahar, (which 
we reached the next day,) was abundantly cultivated, particularly in water 
melons, the owners of which, as we passed by, came forward with their 
hands full of this fruit, to present to us. The Ambassador was met by 
the Chief of Ahar, with a suite composed of rough and ragged horse¬ 
men, who wore immense brown sheep-skin caps, and whose appear¬ 
ance was very different from the generality of Persians. 
At the entrance of Ahar, on^a rising ground stands a conspicuous 
building seen from a considerable distance, the tomb o f Sh eikH S Haafi- 
e -deen , who \^s the teacher of Sheikh Seffi, the founder of the family 
of Senevieh, as they are called in Persia, or of the Sophis, as they are 
known in Europe. We turned from the road to inspect it, and no o b- 
jection was m^e to our entering the building, notwithstanding that in 
