'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎154] (185/582)

J 54 FROM KERMANSHAH
On leaving Kengawar we went east by north over the plain,
and after we had gone about a mile and a-half, we had opposite to
us, on our right, distant less than a mile, a large castle, and an
enclosed town, standing on a long artificial mound. This place
was called Wellashgherd, and the whole is said to be the work of
a certain Firooz Ullah Khan, evidently a Moslem, but of whose
age or history we could obtain no satisfactory details.
From hence we continued to go east, and east by north, over
a stony and barren land, drinking at a small and poor village in
the way: and in about six hours from Kengawar we came on a fine
fertile soil, when, after passing through many gardens, and over
streams of water, we entered the large village of Sadawah, where
we found shelter in a private house, and took up our quarters.
The character of the mountains here begins to change: at
Bisitoon and Kengawar, they were chiefly of lime-stone ; but here,
in the plain, we had large round masses of grey granite, with a
profusion of blue slate and white quartz, with reddish veins in it.
The walls of the gardens were built of large square masses of
mud, placed edgewise on each other, like those at Damascus; they
were lofty, solid, and of great extent. The doors, however, were
all of stone, and traversed on a pivot from their own body, exactly
like those of the buildings and dwellings of the Hauran and Syria.
The largest of the stone doors here, however, did not exceed three
01 four feet square ; their thickness I could not ascertain, as most
of them were closed. They were formed each of one solid slab of
blue slate, perfectly plain, and were secured by a bolt on the
inside, access to which was had by thrusting the hand through a
circular hole in the door itself.
The village of Sadawah occupies, with its numerous gardens,
extent of scarcely less than three or four miles in circuit;
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