FOOTNOTES:
[77] Persian groom.
[78] The ancient Hyrcania.
[79] In Persia the term rood-khâneh, or the bed of a stream, is the common word for a river—an idiom which has probably arisen from the fact stated.
[80] Some of these mirrors exceeded eight feet in length.
[81] Mr. Randall, who is here alluded to, was a very ingenious carpenter, who had been in an English man-of-war employed in discoveries. He had been in the habit of mixing with the natives of the places he visited and was on this occasion of great use; for the Persian artizans, employed under his directions, worked with more zeal and readiness from his dressing like them and living amongst them.
[82] Fermân means a command, signifies here a letter or mandate addressed by a superior to an inferior.
[83] The minarets of the Mahomedan mosques are, like the steeples of our churches, of all sizes; those we visited were of ordinary dimensions.
[84] I have been informed by one who had personal means of making the comparison, that he considered the general condition of the Persian peasantry to be fully equal if not superior to that of the same class in Russia or Poland.
[85] Moobid is the Persian term for a priest of the fire-worshippers.