'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.' [‎361] (427/516)

BAGH SHAH.
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soon after getting disengaged from the narrow pass leading from Dema-
wend, is a collection of four villages, Abserd, Taskeen, Ahroon, and
Bidek, on the borders of a small stream. At two fursungs from Dema-
wend we came to a larger village called Aineh verzoon, around which, to
the extent of about one mile in length and half a mile in breadth, we
remarked the cultivation of wheat, barley, and clover. This yields,
according to the account of the Ketkhoda, from 200 to 300 kherwars
of grain, the ground giving five mauns for every one sown. The water,
which is the cause of this produce, and indeed of the existence of the
village, proceeds from a spring in the neighbouring mountain. Two
miles luithei on is Jahboon, with cultivation of about a mile in circum
ference surrounding it; and two miles still further is the Bagh Shah,
where we halted for the day. In all this plain of twenty miles in length
and four in breadth, there may be about four square miles of culti
vation ; the rest is an arid, stony desert, yielding only thorns and little
succulent herbs, over which the cattle of the Eelauts range in the fullest
liberty.
The Bagh Shah, or the King's garden, consists of an enclosed piece
of ground about five hundred paces square, (through the centre of which
runs a broad alley of poplar-trees, with other alleys at right angles,) and
is completely filled in its other parts by fruit trees. It only yields a
revenue of thirty tomauns. The entry is through what is called a Ser-
der, which consists of a pair of folding gates below, and a room above,
with other small rooms and offices about it. Aga Mahomed Khan first
established this as a hunting seat. The present King still keeps it up,
but does not frequent it so much as his predecessor. Both, how
ever, are celebrated for their passion for the chase: the Khan de
lighted in running the deer with greyhounds, the Shah in hawking and
shooting. Near the Bagh Shah is a small glen, which is the passage
of the wild goats and mountain deer from their Kishlak* to their
Yeylak f, and here it is said that Aga Mahomed Khan used to take
his station, making a carnage which is described as very great.
* Hot region. f Cold region.
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