Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-09-21
PERgIfN EdfB 1887

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are the more iotereang, as they com muni@ate
fome information as to the tate Of a country once
70 celebrated, but Of Nbofe prelent condition
fuch general. and ablo.ute ignorance prevails.
Atraz Hqggf %, 1900
| " In former letter mentioned "a YOU the
Embady having left Abu Sbiber commonly
called Bulhire, or his place we travelled in
the pot iplendid lyle with relpetl to our equip,
ment and attendants, ard were treated with the
! utnolt attert'on and refpea throughout the
whole Of our quincy. The different Govern
ors OF the respective provinces through which
our route lay, came out 70 reteive and welcome
the Envoy. conducting him 70 his tens, under
a continued diichaTge ofkre arms, with grand
dH?lay Of military evolutions. Tie early part
ct our journey provel extremely unplea(ant on
account Of the exceiIive heat until we arrived NJ
Cazercon having then pafed, or rather af
! oended two ranges OF sx~eejing high mouo-
tains we experienced a very f-nGbe alteration
il the climate We hailed At Cazeroon ten
days after on fatigu:, reg ,lng curfeIves with
petty o.. tF-rent sees, g.eet quantities Of fpow
beng brought rom lie fIrroundDg moun-
tains.
"On our leaving Cazeroon, We afcenIed ,wo
more ranges q. mountains before We reas he'd
Shiraz, vi the fight If which We We At
length graIFed On the ! 3th Of June. Cap.
Mslcomb, Tie Envoy, made hs public eot1y
the following day. and was received with the
| higAet and mot iatterng dt0inction. Tive
| Nobiemen of tie hehrr o.t-', attended by
ret;nuc Of upwards 81 jhoutrd ho-Ie came
! out 10 receive him, welcome him 90 bis arrival
and conduit him to where his tents had been
| pitched, which was Ut lofty terrace, under tbe
wall; ot the garden, called Ie@aa Numa, a4d
| within few hundred yards of tie tomb Of the
| celebrated HAIR and the HreaIn 0t Rochua
| bad, l1 famed ID bis poems does us The honor
! 81 running through cur camp il is a, pieient
nor a very mighty Aream, being no more than
Two iset wide, but tie Pu.en I. Of KS waters
JultIy cc'erye All the praile they have received.
! The bower If Moiella Is ALTO olole Az hand. but
which has lafered from time, nothing now re
NAMING n that Formerly much admired plAc+
! but the uins Of an old brick wall
! =" Our Ray here has altogether been ex.reme
ly pleAlant, particularly the latter part Of our
| time the 6rh tx weeks we were continually
entertained with feaaing, feats ia wrcGGnE,
rope dancing, and FIRE works. Soon after our
arrival we qu',ted ont tea,s and took ~ our
Il
| Tie DELI htful e4rdan NJ the Tehau Num1
4" Stree our arrived we hav: !een the P ioce
| Regent two or three times he i 4 Wv hand
fane boy Of a5ou, tws.v, y1Ars DID, furoor-
our hay AZ this pltcz will nct excce1 ei- II rr
ten days, whsn we hAl b 3u cur ipn,ney. "a
| Iipahan from whence yru may ag,,o ex3ecf 10
hsAr from me. | ProfsC mn / u, feeling
particular grez Of re1cr4tion fur The pllce
We are ow ia, aud ccn:eive tha. an ire adj .
elaaic ground"
"II3q5lv SEPTEMBER al
f" AGrtcab!y to my p5omile, tranlnIir you y
fhoIt account of onr journey from Sheraz to
this place
{" We left Shsraz on the 9Th inR. and he
! roads and oouutry through which we pah-d
were excellent, generally leading through large
extsnhye plains, OF a r,h FOL but the traces
Of indnary, Or the cutivaling hand Of The far
nler1 wefe evidently wanting, owing probably
from the icdrciy OF water, but lli,l more 10 from
the want cf PoPulation. .-
ION our way from Sheraz we viiited the IA
ms Of the once celebrated city Of Periepos, bur
as we only continued there one day, We had
but1a very curfory view of it, yet Riil fuhici-nt
to forcioly impress on the mind an idea cf its
former grandeur.
sour reception at Ifpahan was truly magui.
ficent; the Begierbeg's brother aad foo, at
tended by nearly ten thouEand troops ma ched
ont The dilance Of ght miles to meet Us, and
if may Be permitted tojudge frcm appearance,
| there mult have been not lels than thirty thou.
land lpe6tators aacmbled together to witneis
the novelty Of fuch fight.
1--WE have not yet pad A Witt to the city, but
it ftems to be Of immenf- extent, and its whole
appearance denotes the capital Of great aud
eEtenive empire.
One Of the Palaces Of the SeF-iran Mon
arohs is 6tted up for our reception, aud We lhalt
| 'ake pohedion Of il to. morrow or next day at
prelent We are encampei on the banks Of the
river Zlinder0od, to The weaward Of the city.
q The Beglerbeg, HAS Mahomed Hugain
Khan, has jnG paid Us viliI he IS 4 ren14rka-
pleaiARt old man, faid 70 be extremely Ii;b,
and made an elegant and fhowy appearance ia
bis dreis and equipage
4 We proPoie 70 leave this in about ten days
and e1ped to Dc at the ImperihStirrup ia about
three weeks afterwards, at farthea."