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Excerpt from Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book of Travel The modern capital Of Persia lies in a plain ringed half-way round by mountains, which on the northern Side touch with frozen summits the regions of eternal snow, and on the east Sink into low ranges Of hills, stretch ing their naked arms into the desert. It is the Chief City Of a land Of dust and stones flwaste and desolate, Persia unfolds her monotonous length, broken only by ridges Of hills even more barren than the plain itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.