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Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nhad upset the night before, and whose water we had drunk forbreakfast with the assurance that it was most excellentQdb-i khaill khub). I now saw a dead cat floating on its sur-face and the villagers washing their dirty clothes in the stream.A short drive through slush and mud, after crossing the ford,brought us to the foothills, and all that day the route layup steep mountains and down into deep valleys, although thealtitude of the latter was rarely less than four thousand feetabove sea-level, as the tableland is high at this point. Themountain scenery looked like a sea of gigantic billows raisedby some Titan storm that had torn up its surface. And snowwas everywhere. The depth of the snow made progress veryslow, and once our vehicle became hopelessly stuck in a hugedrift, and I had to pay handsomely for extra horses to pullit out. The country was sparsely settled, and many of the 1 On the name Marand see the ar- ischen Ortsnamen, in IF. 16. 347,tide by Hubschmann, Die altarmen- 451.
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MARAND AND SOFIAJV, HISTORIC PLACES 37 hamlets were buried in the snow, one or two on the mountain-side (like the one in my picture) looking as if their occupantshad hibernated all winter, so completely was their communica-tion cut off. Most desolate among all the sights, however,was a ruined caravansarai, which, like a hundred others inPersia, was attributed to Shah Abbas the Great as builder.The magnificence of its founder and the former splendor ofits many kingly occupants, in contrast with its present ruinouscondition, struck me as an illustration of Omar Khayyamsfamiliar quatrain: — Think, in this batfcerd CaravanseraiWhose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his PompAbode his destined Hour, and went his way. It was late in the afternoon when we finally drew near thevillage of Sofian, or Zofian, which had been the scene of a bloodybattle between the Turks and the Persians in the latter part ofthe sixteenth century.i As there is a post-house at Sofi

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