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[ A tomaun is the principal gold coin of Persia, worth about 14s.]
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[ The dinar is the smallest denomination of money in Persia.]
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[ Twenty-four grains make one miscal.]
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[ The loves of these personages have been treated by various Oriental writers. Majnoun is looked upon as the model of a lover, and Leilah as the most beautiful and perfect of her sex.]
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[ In sketching the history of the poet Asker, the author has attempted to record part of the life of the late Fatteh Ali Khan, poet- laureate to the Shah, a most ingenious and amiable man, well known to the English who were at Tehran in the years 1812 and 1813.]