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Title: Persia previous and present; a ebook of shuttle and research, with more than 2 hundred illustrations and a map
yr: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
subjects: Zoroastrianism
writer: new york, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e used to be additionally constructed with the aid of this similar ruler.* Yakuts descriptionof the outer metropolis, the citadel, and the town itself — torepeat again his own designations — could be price quotingin full if there have been space, as a result of his remarks make us moresure of our floor when endeavoring to trace among the many ruinsthe primary features of with the aid of-long past Rei. by means of a ways the very best descriptionof these continues to be, then again, used to be given with the aid of an Englishman, KerPorter, just about a century ago. His account was once also accom- 1 Ibn Haukal, Oriental Geography, cites, is a misreading of the Arabictr, Ouseley, pp. 176-177. on this quo- letters for Bei-bandl. tation, i've made insignificant ^ See the French translation of modifications in punctuation and spelling, Yakuts lengthy article on Rei, and so that you could conform with the rest of the Mohammadiah in Barbier de Mey- book. nard, food regimen. geog. de la Perse, pp. 2 Yakut, p. 277. The title Zohei- 273-280, 516-518. diah given to the fort within the text of * Yakut, pp. 277, 517, Jafar ar-Razi, which Yakut (p. 517)

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KER PORTERS DESCRIPTION OF THE RUINS 433 panied by using a neatly-sketched plan, with the intention to stay authoritativeuntil cautious archaeological surveys and researches point out thechanges which have passed off when you consider that his day because of the lapse oftime, excavations with the aid of the natives, and the constructing of the rail-highway to Rei.i Ker Porters description is so superb and hisbook so little accessible these days, that I regard it price whileto reproduce the main paragraph right here, making such changesin punctuation as can be required to-day, and including hisexcellent map of Rei, which could also be useful in locating thegates talked about by way of the Arab geographers, and adding explana-tory footnotes of my own.^ The ruins lie about 5 miles southeast of Teheran, extendingfrom the foot of the curving mountains and running in that direc-tion across the plain in an indirect line southwest. the skin ofthe ground, in every single place this tract, is marked through hollows, mounds,mouldering towers, tombs, and wells. the material of all being c


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