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BORDERS OF THE LAKE. 
at the foot of the mountains. It is called five farsangs from 
Ouroomia. 
September 12th. — This village is pleasantly surrounded by 
gardens, abundant in delicious fruit, and particularly fine grapes. 
The people here use the heavy triangular cart, drawn by four 
or six buffaloes. Their plough is extremely large and pon¬ 
derous, but constructed with two leading wheels, precisely like 
our improved English machines for the same purpose. Six or 
eight of the above-mentioned animals are employed to drag it 
along, each couple having their appropriate driver sitting on the 
yoke with his back to their heads. Two extra persons guide 
this most formidable instrument of agriculture along the furrow. 
The cylindrical machine, described before, is also in use here 
for a thresher. 
Just over the village, in the side of its rocky mountains, se¬ 
veral natural caverns invited my curiosity; but they did not 
show any marks of former human occupation, either as dwellings 
or former courts of mystery. We left Kareeze at half past five 
this morning, our road excellent, and in a direction N. 80° E. 
in which we continued for nearly two hours. At four miles we 
came to the village of Guloojee, the lake being two miles on our 
right. Here the plain was stony and waste, yet we passed 
through a large village inhabited by Nestorian Christians ; it 
was called Jowlan ; and not far from it appeared another similar 
place named Jamal-Abad. There we bent N. 60° E., soon com¬ 
ing to the village of Grosschi, within half a mile of the lake, 
and whence the highest mountain on the Isle of Shahy bore 
S. 70° E. We now got pretty close to the water’s edge. Another 
hour brought us to the point of the mountains which terminates 
their second great amphitheatre; just before we reached it, we 
