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BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PERSIA AND RUSSIA. 
“ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and 
“ gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, 
“ and to his girdle * ; ” and also in the history of Mordecai we read, 
For the man vohom the King delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel 
“ be brought which the King usetli to weaiff &c. 
By this treaty the line of boundaries between the two empires com¬ 
mences from the beginning of the plain of Adineh Bazar, and runs 
direct through the Sahara, or Desert of Moghan, to the west of Yedi- 
boluk on the river Araxes, and then on the uppermost northern 
bank of that river until its junction at the Kapanek chai at the back 
of the hill of Megri. From the right bank of the Kapanek chai, the 
boundaries of Karabagh and Nakhjuwan are marked by a line drawn on 
the summits of the mountains of Pembek and Aligez. The line then 
continues from the top of the Pembek mountains to the angle of the 
boundary of Shuragil, then over the snowy mountains, and passing 
through Aked, runs along the limits of Shuragil and between the vil¬ 
lage of Misteri, until it reaches the river Arpachai. 
In order to the conclusion of a definitive treaty, it was necessary that 
an embassy should be sent to the Emperor of Russia, and Mirza Abul 
Hassan Khan being again appointed to represent His Persian Majesty, 
was accordingly nominated Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo¬ 
tentiary at that Court. By his agreeable and conciliating manner, 
as well as by the knowledge which he had acquired of European 
customs during his mission to England, he had obtained the good¬ 
will of the Russians in Georgia; and this circumstance, which had great 
weight in the election made of him, was at the same time a pledge of 
the Shah’s desire to make his friendship acceptable to the Emperor. 
Great preparations were made to give this embassy an imposing ef¬ 
fect. The Ambassador was furnished with a large suite of servants, 
with splendid clothes and rich utensils of all sorts. Presents for the 
Emperor were collected from all parts. Arabian horses, Abyssinian 
slaves, pearls from Bahrein, shawls from Cashmere, brocades and silks 
1 Samuel, xviii. i. 
f Esther, vi. 7 and 8. 
