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upper division, used as a dwelling for the horse-keepers, was 
speedily arranged for myself and little party. Carpets were spread, 
a good fire kindled; and the arrival of the royal fare made every 
restitution for the first hour’s houseless wandering. 
The town of Mianna is situated in a wide valley, closed to the 
south-east by the lofty mountains of the Koflan-Ivou. It was 
formerly a place of so much consequence, as to incline some 
authors to ascribe to it the honour of having been the ancient 
capital of the famous province of Atropatia. But the best- 
informed writers, and Pliny amongst them, give that distinction 
to Gazas, (1. vi.) that is, Ganzaka, or Tabreez. Mianna, at present, 
is a poor place, being best known by the ill-name of its bugs ; 
though it carries on a tolerable trade, as the mart where a small 
and beautiful manufacture of carpets is deposited by the nomade 
tribes from the mountains. These wild people weave them 
with a strength and taste, that is quite astonishing, and gain from 
their sale a very considerable profit. 
Our next day’s route was over more interesting ground. We 
started at sun-rise ; our road being up the valley, and bearing 
from Mianna S. E. towards the mountains which close its ex¬ 
tremity at that point. We rode on, in this direction, full five 
miles. In our way, we crossed a fine bridge, built of brick, over 
the river Garongoo. This stream, which diminishes to a rivulet, 
or increases to a flood, according to the seasons of the year, rises 
in the hills to the south-west, and after traversing the plain of 
the valley, soon after loses itself in the spacious bed and rapid 
current of the Kizzilouzan. The broad track of the plain allowed 
our cavalcade to extend itself into the more diffuse order of 
march, in which they set out from Tabreez ; and the various 
groups, which scattered themselves over the constantly changing 
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