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REMAINS NEAR SHIRAZ. 
is said to have composed some of his most beautiful poems. 
Starving as the poor people look who shelter near his remains, 
they hold the fish his name has appropriated, in too sacred a light 
ever to draw one from its native fountain. And this, perhaps, is 
all the respect still shewn to the memory of Sheik Sadi. 
On the summit of the mountain, near the tomb, we see the 
ruins of a fortress, called Kala Bendar. It is said to have been 
the work of one of the Seljukian kings of Persia ; many of whom, 
though of Tartar origin, shewed an extraordinary respect to liter¬ 
ature ; and governed by its proper consequents, justice and 
mercy. 
The only remarkable object amongst the ruins is a well of 
an amazing depth, which formerly supplied the castle with 
water. Continuing along the same side of the valley, to the 
distance of nearly four miles, we arrived at the jutting points 
of several lofty rocks, and found the remains of another edifice; 
but this claimed the age, with the classic elegance, of those at 
Persepolis. It appears to have been a square of thirty feet, 
with a portal in each face, three of which are standing. Their 
sides are sculptured with figures similar to those I have already 
drawn (Plate XLVII.) in Median robes; some carrying small 
vessels in one hand, and a piece of linen in the other; and 
the rest bearing little pails of aromatic gums for the incense- 
stands. The lintels of the doors are the same with those of 
Chehel-minar, charged with lotos-leaves, and worked with an 
admirable skill. The whole fabric is of Persepolitan stone; very 
beautiful fragments of which lay all over the ground, in the 
broken shapes of architraves, friezes, &c. A little onward, on 
the same height, the remains of several very strong walls and 
