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THE TOMB. 
intended to be commemorated here, was of no older date than 
Sulieman the fourteenth caliph of the posterity of Ali; who, 
having succeeded to the sovereignty of Persia, with that high 
sacerdotal dignity, in the year of Hegira 96. (A. D. 715.) may be 
supposed to have visited this city in the valley of Moarg-aub 
or Pasargadse, and like many other great men, “ put his name” 
upon the works of his still more illustrious predecessors. His 
mother who, tradition says, is entombed here, was called Wal- 
lada, a daughter of the sacred family ; but as her son, like herself, 
was born far from these lands, and during his short, though brilliant 
reign, was wholly employed in the west, we cannot conjecture 
what could bring the good lady to lay her bones here. When 
Mandelo passed through this vale in 1638, he mentions that a 
village not far from her reputed burying-place, bore her name ; 
and that “ on the wall of the chapel is an Arabic inscription, 
bearing the words Mader-i-Sulieman /” As all this Saracenic tra¬ 
dition, and inscription, cannot contradict the opposite argument, 
presented in the ancient style of the ruins themselves, and sup¬ 
ported by the collateral evidence of the Greek historians ; I 
would suppose it possible, that some palace, or village, or even 
the grave of Mandane the mother of Cyrus, might have dis¬ 
tinguished this his newly established city ; and to the memory 
of her name, obliterated by time, has succeeded the legend of 
the mother of Sulieman. The confusion of circumstances, places, 
and persons, which reigns throughout the Persian notices of 
their history, is sufficient to countenance a much less plausible 
conjecture ; particularly, when we consider whose tomb (almost 
proved to demonstration) it is, to which they have given the 
name of Madre-i-Sulieman. 
This interesting monument stands on an eminence not far 
