EMBASSY DEPARTS FROM TEHERAN. 
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Our first day’s march was to our old encampment in the mountains, 
and on the next we went to Arijeh, leaving the road to Ahmedbegiou 
and Tabriz on our right. After being four hours on the road we 
crossed a river called Kara-sou, and then came to the village of Dada- 
beglou, leaving Lari, a large place situated on a hill amongst trees, to 
the westward. Then we passed Lahar, close to a small valley, where 
we found several snug encampments of the Eelauts, at one of which 
we stopt to examine the tent of the chief of the obah^ or family. It 
was composed of a wooden frame of circular laths, which was fixed on 
the ground, and then covered over with large felts, that were fastened 
down by a cord, ornamented by tassels of various colours. A curtain, 
curiously worked by the women with coarse needle-work of various 
colours, was suspended over the door. In the King of Persia’s tents, 
magnificent perdahs, or hangings of needle-work, are suspended, as 
well as on the doors of the great mosques in Turkey; and these cir¬ 
cumstances combined, will perhaps illustrate the hanging for the door 
of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, 
wrought xmth needle-work, that was suspended over the door of the 
tabernacle, Exodus, xxvi. 26. 
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