'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎183] (252/524)

ISPAHAN TO TEHERAN.
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of salt and earth. Though the road therefore, over which we travelled,
is as good as those in any other direction across the swamp, it is
frequently after rains impassable: as the horses, which in our passage
were up to the fetlock, are up to their bellies in less favourable
weather.
At Haooz Sultan we were met by an Officer with a letter from the
King, expressing his thanks for the information communicated to him
by the Envoy, of the defeats which " the common enemy" had received
in Spain, and inviting him to arrive at his capital without delay - .
We proceeded, and came to the Mulluk-al-Moaf, a kind of pass
leading through an extent of broken country, which, forming a laby
rinth of little hills and intricate nooks, has not unfrequently been a
real cause of difficulty to travellers, and to a certain degree embarrassed
us till we reached Kinar-a-gird. In the dells were a variety of streams
which were nearly salt. The land itself bears evident marks of the
action of fire. The soap-wort is the most common shrub all over the
face of the country, but no use is made of it. About two fursungs
from Kinar-a-gird we crossed a large salt stream, running from W. to
E. and just before it we were greeted by an istakball. Our march on
this day was forty miles. We passed the night in a large caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
built by the present King at Kinar-a-gird; where the Mehmandar,
regardless of his late disgrace^ again behaved ill, for his servants were
suffered to intrude on the space which had been reserved for us.
Erom Kinar-a-gird to Teheran is six fursungs, which we called
sixteen miles. We continued along the plain for two miles, crossing
numerous channels of water which are carried from the stream by
Kinar-a-gird. We then wound among some small hills for four
miles, when the plain of Teheran opened upon us, bounded from E. to .
by a lofty range of mountains. Clouds generally rest on theii sum
mits, and the snow at this time covered their very roots. On the West
and high above them is the peak of Demawend.
Teheran, as we descended gradually into the plain, bore N. 25 E. of
us. On the right are the ruins of the ancient city of Rey, scattered in