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of the whole structure are of brick, and put together with the 
nicest care. Indeed, that so much of it exists, after the general 
overthrow by two earthquakes, proves the excellence of its 
workmanship. Part of it is now used as an arsenal; and, also, 
to a very dismal purpose. A few years ago a woman was pre¬ 
cipitated from the top of the highest point of its wall, into the 
ditch beneath, as a punishment for the murder of her husband ; 
a crime till then almost unheard of, in the annals of Persian 
domestic life. 
To the south-west of the new walls of the city, but far within 
the remnants of the old boundaries, stand the magnificent re¬ 
mains of the sepulchre of Sultan Kazan. It is situated about 
two m iles from the townj the whole way being marked with 
shapeless ruins, even stretching beyond the sepulchre, to a great 
extent; but the tomb itself, is an object too pre-eminent in 
desolated grandeur to descry without approaching. Its appear¬ 
ance now, is that of a huge mound, of mingled lime, dust, tiles, 
and bricks : but surrounded with spacious arches of stone, and 
other vestiges of departed majesty. 
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Beyond the eastern gate of the town, the ruins of its past 
greatness reach for more than three miles over the valley, and 
on the adjoining heights which skirt the base of the hills. Sub¬ 
jacent to the loftiest of these hills , or rather mountains, which 
fo rmerly bore the name of Serdigiab ; and on one of its most 
commanding subordinate acclivities, we s ee the massy towers of 
an ancient fortress. Whatever consequence the ark or citadel 
that is in the town may have held at any time as the immediate 
bulwark round the ordinary palace of the sovereign, this vast 
and venerable structure on the verge of the old walls (now so 
distant from the new) must, from its position and its strength, 
