'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.' [‎293] (346/516)

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and the translator of the life of Jenghiz (probably from the same source)
confirms that observation.
At about a fursung distant, in the mountains, on a bearing of S. 12° W.
are several mineral springs worthy of attention. They issue from the
earth with different degrees of force, close on the borders of a stream
flowing near to a deserted village, called Chai bagh, or the river garden.
The most remarkable of them are two, close to each other, one cold
and the other tepid. On the opposite side of the river, is another
which gushes from the rock with unequal force, sometimes suddenly
spurting out with violence, at others only trickling a few drops. The
waters of these springs are a strong chalybeate, and of a most nauseous
taste. They are unknown to the generality of the people of the coun
try, although their existence is marked by Mirkond in the Ajaib al
haladan. Another spring of the same nature rises closer to the town
at a place called Babagerger, but the water which flows from it is more
copious than that of all the other springs combined. It issues from the
earth in bubbles, and falls into a basin about fifteen feet in diameter.
The volume of water which it emits would be sufficient to form a large
stream, but as fast as it flows out of the basin it concretes and petrifies;
a quality frequently found in the mineral waters in which this region
abounds. The natives bathe in the basin of Babagerger, which they
hold good for cutaneous disorders.
The day after our arrival at Maragha the Ambassador was visited by
Ahmed Khan, who had quitted his expedition against the Courds to
to perform the offices of hospitality to his guest. This Chief is one of
those personages frequently met with in the East, who realize and
illustrate many of the facts recorded in holy writ of the lives and
habits of the Patriarchs. Like Isaac, he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of servants. Genesis, xxiv. 14. His
manners and appearance are those of Jacob, a plain man dwelling in
tents, id. xxv. 27. Although verging to fourscore and ten, he is the pic
ture of health and activity. His beard is quite white, and his dress is
scarcely superior to that of his own shepherds. His reputation however