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GOVERNMENT OF KERIM KHAN. 
manufactories, adorned it with buildings, and planted the pleasant 
environs with the most delightful gardens. But he was often 
heard to say, “ he was more desirous of promoting the comfort 
and prosperity of the people under his care, than to encrease the 
magnitude, or add to the splendour of his capital.” This virtuous 
prince died at an extreme old age, in the bosom of peace, 
regretted by the nation at large ; and even now remembered 
with tributes of ingenuous encomium by the royal descendants 
of the personal enemies of his race. 
Amongst other public works, he erected a commodious bazar, 
nearly a quarter of a mile long, arched above, and furnished with 
openings at judicious distances for the admission of air and light; 
and yet so disposed, as to be rarely accessible to the disagreeable 
effects of excessive heat or rain. This is now in a very falling 
state, too well harmonizing with the remains of a large unfinished 
mosque, which still goes by his name. 
With the death of its protector, expired many of the advantages 
which, during his life, the place of his residence possessed over 
other cities of the empire ; and the civil wars that followed the 
event, ending in removing the seat of royal government, gave a 
mortal blow to the prosperity of Shiraz. Its commerce was 
diverted into other channels, and its numerous manufactories 
perished for want of purchasers; two, however, have survived 
the wreck, and are prosecuted with sufficient diligence and success; 
one is making glass for windows, bottles, and goblets, which, 
though not of the most elegant sort, are vendable all over the 
kingdom ; the second is the formation of sword-blades and 
daggers, which are deemed excellent for general use. But 
nothing done here by even the best workmen, can equal the old 
manufacture of Kerman and Khorasan, called the Kermanry 
