'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎154] (195/516)

SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION.
soot that we inhabited, we found that a small dew fell every night a
spot tnat we m ' b • surr ounded by trees and
fact which may be explained by our being / w
cultivated grounds, which naturally attract any floating yap .
L . .hick vapour covered the P
Which it stood, about sunrise, and was dissipated as the sun acquired
strength. For this reason, all the views about Ispahan are muc ner
in the evening than in the morning. , , A
About the 23d of August, the peasants began to plough the ground
in the vicinity of Ispahan. An old ploughman who was atwork near
the village of Sheheristan, informed us that the field which e was
ploughing belonged to the Government, but that he had rented it rem
the Ameen -ad-Dowlah upon the following terms. He provided his own
oxen and plough, and the Ameen -ad-Dowlah the corn-seed and he
ground. At the harvest, Ameen -ad-Dowlah got three-fourths of the
produce, and he the remaining fourth. We afterwards learnt that
the whole of the land about Ispahan was farmed in the same manner,
and that its irrigation, which was made by cuts from the Zaian eroo ,
was at the expense of the Ameen -ad-Dowlah. The manure which is
used for corn-fields, is generally the produce of a flock of sheep and
goats, a small sum being paid to the shepherd, who keeps them upon
the appointed ground, for whatever length of time may have been the
agreement.
Owing to the great scarcity of fire-wood, an evil felt throughout the
greatest part of Persia, fuel is extremely dear at Ispahan, in conse
quence of which the poor burn the dung of cows, asses, and horses.
In our morning rides, we generally met caravans of mules and asses
loaded with this commodity, a mule-load of which is sold for about
half a real, or one shilling sterling. A maun of fire-wood*, which is
lage terrestre, malgre toutes les recherches que nous avons Jaites a ce sujet. Vol. iii. p. 218.
We however found the shell of a small snail, late in August, in the garden of Saadetabad,
in which our tents were pitched; and in September we saw several live snails crawling
about on the bank of a water-course. ...
* Fruit, charcoal, barley, wood, and the produce of the fields, are sold by the Rey -maun,
which is thirty pounds weight.