'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎72] (99/450)

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mar daniel.
[ch. xv.
in some places, looking like a small Koyunjuk, was
visible about one mile distant in S. 7 W. This
mount is called by the peasants lei ]>illa, and is very
ancient. On a pinnacle or broken part oi the face
of the line of hills, just below or south-east of the
village, are the remains of a building called by the
easants Kalaa u Safra; and they say Safra, of
whom they make a personage, resided there in very
ancient times.
The hill on which Mar Daniel *, another old
Christian church, is situated, and of which it occu
pies the highest and central point, is abrupt on its
western and sloping on its eastern side, where it
descends to broken ground that runs along to the
southern extremity of the line of hills that screen
Makloube. These again are abrupt on their western
faces, and all broken into glens or ravines. On the
east they decline gently into a vale much higher
than the country on their west. They (more cor
rectly it, for it is one continued line) do not extend
very far north; and on the south they terminate
before they reach the extremity of Makloube. The
course seems east and west.
Decemher 14.—There is a road by the spring Ain
u Safra through a defile in the hills into the vale of
Makloube, but as it is stony and troublesome we pre
ferred going round by the southern extremity. We
* The only mention I can find of Mar Daniel is in Asseman ?
torn. ii. p. 247.