GAUR TEPPA, OR UNBELIEVER’S HILL. 0Q7 
the unbeliever’s hill. Five miles north of this, and under the 
mountains, stands the fine village of Koomla, most extensively 
surrounded by gardens. In another hour we passed through 
Deeza-Kali; and a little to the north of it, still under the hills, 
the flourishing little place of Choiristar may be descried. All 
these villages are noted for the manufacture of a superior kind 
of cotton cloth called kudduck, which forms the summer cloth¬ 
ing of the people when dyed blue or green. It is a similar 
fabric to what we call nankeen, and is very strong and ser¬ 
viceable. Proceeding, the high line of mountains on our left 
gradually receded, and all the intermediate plain expanded in 
vast tracts of varied cultivation. It is supplied with water from 
the hills; whence it is conducted many miles through the level 
land by the means of canaughts, a sort of subterraneous course 
I have described in a former page. A ride farther, for rather 
more than an hour and half, brought us to the village of Ali 
Shah, four farsangs from our late menzil. 
September 17th.—From our last night’s quarters, a short 
march of twenty miles over a similar smiling country, would 
bring us to Tabreez. At the end of the first eight miles we 
reached the disappointing margin of the saline Augi; and, from 
its situation, I should deem it the salt river which Mark Antony 
and his fainting troops drank of, after passing the mountains in 
his way to the Araxes. It was now very shallow, and not more 
than twenty yards across. The remainder of our ride was par¬ 
ticularly pleasant, a gentle cooling air blowing through the 
openings of the hills upon the valley; while every successive 
point of note we saw, assured us of nearer approaching the 
welcome of our friends ; and at the end of twelve miles, after 
