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m DEPARTURE FROM HAMADAN.
cultivation of this part of the country was apparently more than neces
sary for the population ; but it is from hence that the supplies for the
King, his immense retinue, and his troops, are chiefly drawn, and laid
up in store for him at Sultanieh. It was thus that the ten thousand
Greeks, in their retreat, came to a place where they found plenty of
provisions, and barley for horses, all laid up for the satrap of the
country.*
Hamadan, by the direction of Alwend, which we still saw, bore
S. 31° W. from our encampment.
Still in a cool and pleasant region, we continued our route to Chibok
Oglu, distant a mile or two from the high road; because the regular
stage not long since had been entirely demolished, as they call it in 1 ersia
Kharah herd, by a young Shah Zadeh (Prince) and his suite, who had
passed by. Saadi well understood his own countrymen when he wrote
his pretty story of Nushirwan, in which he applies these verses, f
" Should the King want to eat an apple from the garden ot the pea
sant, his servants immediately pull up the tree by the roots.
" And if he gives them permission to demand five eggs, they in
stantly put a thousand fowls on the spit." Gulistan.
On a bearing of S. 49° W. from this place, is another Takht Sulei
man, (throne of Solomon,) situated near a village on the opposite
side of the plain. Here, we had heard were great ruins, and shafts
of old mines; but nothing in fact is to be seen there now except
an ancient Pehlavi inscription, much effaced, and for which the natives
express great reverence. A fine plain, apparently a continued series ot
pasture lands, extends itself to the northward to an unbounded horizon.
We bent our course towards the mountains which separate this plain
from that of Sultanieh, and pitched our tents at Jahreen. On the 21st
of June we reached the King's camp at Sultanieh, after exploring a
long defile, parts of which were very grand in mountain scenery.
* Zenoph. Anab. lib. iii. c. 4.
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