نسخة مذيلة من "بلاد فارس والشأن الفارسي" بقلم جورج كرزون، مع أوراق مدرجة [ظ‎‎٦‎٢‎٤] (١٨١٤/١٢٦٥)

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than any previously issued ; while the sadly disproportionate ex
panse of the two mighty deserts is a visitation from which Persia
will hardly free herself till the end of time.
I will deal with the cities before I come to the deserts; and
Cities and from the two I will then pass to the interesting but
deserts little-known subject of Persian Beluchistan.
Each distinct division of the Persian territories has its populous
city. In the north-west is Tabriz, in the north Teheran, in tbe
north-east Meshed, in the centre Isfahan, in the south
Shiraz. The provinces of which I speak can claim two
Yezd
and
Kerman
Kerman 0 f s i m il ar rank, Yezd and Kerman, the former
situated 200 miles (by caravan track) south-east of Isfahan, the
latter rather more than the same distance south-east of Yezd, and
hr&Ql miles from the sea at Bunder Abbas. Both are famous and
populous cities : both are sustained by local industry and foreign
barter; and both present much the same features of habit and
appearance; although Kerman must yield to Yezd, alike in
number of inhabitants, in wealth, and in general prosperity.
Yezd, 1 which is the capital of a district bearing the same name,
is ordinarily approached, on the north, by caravan route from
History of Kashan via Nain, or from Isfahan; on the south by
Yezd similar routes from Bunder Abbas, usually traversed by
camels, either via Saidabad or via Kerman. In the Persian
hyperbole the city is known as Dar-el-Ibadeh, or Seat of Wor
ship, a not inapt designation, seeing that its people, whether
Mohammedans, or Babis, or Parsis, are distinguished for great
strictness and zeal, and that it contains a large number of the
fanatical firebrands who call themselves seyids. In history it has
long been known; but, from its proximity to no frontier, has
played both a less troublous and a less distinguished part than
other cities of less importance. It was one of the legendary
halting-places of Zal and Rustam while on their march from Seistan
1 Yezd has been visited and described by the following Europeans in the
present century: A. Dupre (1808), Voyage en Perse, vol. ii. cap. xlii.; Dr. A.
Petermann (1854), Reisen ini Orient ; N. de Khanikoff (1859), Memoire, pp- 200
204 (with a map); Sir F. Goldsmid (1865), Telegraph and Travel,^- 570 -572,
Colonel Euan-Smith (1870), Eastern Persia, vol. i. pp. 173-175 ; (Sir) C. MacGregor
(1875), Journey through Khorasan, vol. i. pp. 71-80 ; E. Floyer (1877), Unexplore
Beluchistan, cap. xiv. ; A. H. Schindler (1879), Zeit. f. Gesell. d. Erd. zu Berlin,
1881; E. Stack (1881), Six Months in Persia, vol. i. p. 256 ; H. B. Vaughan (1888),
Proceedings of the R. G. S. (new series), vol. xii., 1890. The first city of Yezd was
also called Askizar.
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