MODE OF CATCHING QUAILS 
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The whole establishment has been abandoned, but the church is in 
excellent repair, and with a little cleaning might be fit for use. In a 
corner of the inclosure, built over St. Gregory’s well, is a subterraneous 
chapel, narrow and dark, to which none of our party descended on 
account of the encumbered state of the stairs. 
Our detention on the banks of the Gerni proved very detrimental to 
the general health of our camp; for scarcely was there an European, In¬ 
dian or Persian, among us, who did not fall sick with fever and ague. I 
was so happy as to remain free from disease, by the means of timely me¬ 
dicine, and also by exercise which I constantly took every morning. 
At this season the plain of Erivan swarms with quails, of which we 
killed great numbers around our camp. The Persians hunt this bird in 
a very curious and indeed successful manner. They stick two poles in 
their girdle, upon which they place either their outer coat, or a pair 
of trowsers, and these, at a distance, are intended to look like the horns 
