INDEX. 
853 
Maraga, city of, ii. 494. 
-, caves of, ii. 493. 496. 
Marajuck, village of ii. 646. 
Marande, town of, i. 216, 217, 218. ii. 609, 
610. 
Marauders, summary punishment of in Persia, 
i. 453. 
Marble of Tabreez, ii. 499. 527, 528. 
March through a river, of the author and his 
suite, ii. 81. 
Mariopol, deserted state of, i. 21. 
Marriages, Armenian, i. 428. 
Marriages, Circassian, i. 143. 
Marianne, wife of Noah, i. 218. 
Martyn, Mr. Henry, propagated Christianity 
in Persia, i. 687. 689. 
■ -, observations respecting, ii. 
23. 660. 
• -, died at Tokat, ii. 703. 
Maruf-Kerkhy, mospue, ii. 257. 
Massiwan, town of, ancient Theodopolis, ii. 
714. 
Masonry, in many cases invented by the an¬ 
cient Persians, i. 703. 
Mateck Khanly, village of, ii. 533. 
Maundeville, Sir John, on certain sacred relics, 
i. 190. 
—---, his account of Babylon, 
ii. 336. 
Maurice, the emperor, ii. 166. 
Mavrocordato, Nicholas, ii. 798. 
Mayan, village of, supposed by Chardin to have 
been the residence of Job, ii. 3. 
Mayar, village of, i. 446. 
-, people of, i. 447. 
-, departure from, i. 449. 
Mazanderan, i. 306. 
-, the ancient Hyrcania, ii. 136. 
Mazengutt, fortress of, ii. 654, 655. 
• -, Courdish escort from the glen of, 
ii. G58, 659. 
Meando, Old, village of, ii. 491. 
- New, or Mean-aub, village of, ii. 492. 
Medes, independent kingdom of the, ii. 96. 
■ -, Herodotus’ account of the ancient ca¬ 
pital of the, ii. 17. 
Media, aboriginal people of, ii. 94. 
Median horses, ii. 206. 
Meditation, caves for, i. 510. 
Medressy Jeddah, college, i. 440. 
Memoranda, medical, useful to travellers, ii. 
820—828. [Appendix.) 
Memphis, city of, ii. 276. 
Mendeelsir, mountains of, ii. 493. 
Merdin, rocks of, ii. 246. 
Merdasht, plain of, i. 571. 
Mesched Ali, ii. 327. 336. 
-, for what purpose originally built, 
ii. 405, 406. 
Mesched Esshems, ii. 335, 336. 
-Madr£-i-Sulieman, tomb called, i. 
497. 502. 
- Omoum, village of, i. 509. 
--- Shah, mosque of, i. 432. 
-. See Mosque. 
Mesopotamia, ii. 246, 247. 283. 
Mesri, city of, ii. 276. 
Mevlevey order of Dancing Dervises, ii. 758— 
760. 
Mexiobeggy, village of, i. 454. 
Mianna, i. 263—265. 
-, poisonous bugs of, i. 264. 
Michael, the Grand Duke, his visit to New 
Tcherkask, i. 35—39. 
--, bread and salt, 
as testimonies of loyalty, presented to him, 
i. 37. 
-, the author’s in¬ 
terview with him, i. 37, 38. 
Mickri, the Courdish tribe, ii. 469. 
Middle-men, ii. 80. 
Military, organized from the mountain tribes in 
Persia, ii. IS. 
Mines, of silver, copper, and iron, ancient, ii. 
696, 697. 
•-, Tokat, ii. 792. 
Mirador, the, at Ispahan, i. 434. 
Mirage. See Illusion, optical. 
Mirza Bezoork, the prime-minister of Abbas 
Mirza, i. 236. ii. 23. 
--, entertainment at his house, ii. 
237. 
Mirza Sheffy, prime-minister at Teheran, i. 312 
—315. 
-, curious anecdote respecting him, 
i. 314, 315. 
-, death of, ii. 502. 524. 
-, anecdote of, i. 524, 525. 
