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Title: Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924
Subjects: Asia, Central -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-Fath, the southern terminus of the great city. No ice to speak of can be collected nowadays,either in Sistan or within a very large radius ofcountry, and snow is seldom, almost never seen. Near this mill or ice-house, whichever it was,another high building in ruins was to be observed,but I could not afford the time to deviate frommy route and inspect it. It appeared like awatch-tower, and was not dissimilar to two otherround towers we had seen before on the south,—very likely they were all outer fire-signallingstations, so common all over Asia. 204 ACROSS COVETED LANDS ch. xxi After a brisk ride of some four hours wearrived at the main portion of the ruins ofZaidan—an imposing fort on a clay hill, whichmust have formed the citadel. At the foot ofthe hill was the modern village of Zaidan—aboutfifty houses, some with flat, others with gabled,roofs, such as we had seen at the previous villages,and a few with domed roofs. There were a fewcultivated fields in which wheat was raised.
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CHAPTER XXII An ancient city as big as London—The citadel—Towers—Smallrooms—The walls—Immensity of the city—Sand drifts—Why some parts are buried and some are not—An extensivewall—Great length of thecity—Evidencethatthehabitationswere contmuous—The so-called Rud-i-Nasru—Its position—A double outer wall—A protected road—Interestingstructures—An immense graveyard—Tombs—Sand driftsexplained—A former gate of the city—The Chil-pir ortomb of forty saints—Interesting objects found—Beautifulinscriptions on marble and slate—Marble columns—Gracefullamps—Exciting digging—A tablet—Heptagonal tower—A ghastly figure. As we approached the ruins we could not helpbeing impressed by their grandeur. They werecertainly the most imposing I had so far comeacross in Persia. The high walls and towers ofthe fort could be seen from a great distance, andfor the benefit of my readers a photograph isreproduced in this book to show how the citadelof this grea

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