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Title: Historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time: with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Fraser, James Baillie, 1783-1856
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Publisher: New York Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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where they stood, unless theywere those to which Le Bruyn adverts cursorily in 1705, indescribing a mosque with porticoes and two handsometowers, of which the tops have been damaged. Tavernierpays no high compliment except to its wines and fruits, whichare still celebrated; and he states, that its mud walls hadfallen down. Le Bruyn, after an imposing enumeration of38 muhulehs or wards, 300 mosques, 200 baths, and so on,concludes by saying that the M greater number of the build-ings in this city, which has a circuit of two leagues, are ina decayed state, and the streets so narrow and dirty as tobe scarcely passable in rainy weather. Even in the timeof Chardin the place was full of ruins, and he could launchinto no great praises of its beauty, or its public edifices.The Jumah Musjed, or that generally called the Musjed eNow or New Mosque, founded above 600 years ago by At-tabeg Shah, is the only structure which he calls magnifi-cent ; but he adds, it is superior to any in Ispahan. Scott
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ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCES OF PERSIA, 31 Waring doubts if Shiraz ever merited the encomiums lav-ished upon it : he states the circumference to be about fivemiles, and that at least one-fourth of its houses are in ruins.We should suppose that this proportion is much greater ; andthe melancholy effects of a late earthquake have still fartherreduced the number of habitable mansions. Before thatcatastrophe, the population might amount to 30,000, thoughSir W. Ousely estimated them at not more than 20,000. The principal object of curiosity within the walls is theBazaar e Wukeel, erected by Kureem Khan Zund, a mag-nificent arcade half a mile long, and perhaps forty feet wide,constructed of excellent brick-work, and affording accommo-dation to several hundred shopkeepers. The mollahs with-hold from Christians admittance into the great mosque men-tioned above, the front of which is said to be 150 yards.Sixty other places of worship, though generally mean, withan equal number of Imamzadehs or tom

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