| The Dark Falcon V4: A Tale of the Attruck (1844) Contributor(s): Fraser, James Baillie (Author) |
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ISBN: 116433736X ISBN-13: 9781164337362 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $33.08 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 9.02" W x 6" (1.38 lbs) 312 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Volume: v. 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: R. Bentley Subjects: Iran Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE DURKHANEH. Three days after the incidents related in our last chapter, an equally bright and cheering morning rose upon a very different scene. An amphitheatre of high and picturesque mountains, whose crests shot up in many a varied peak and ridge, half encircled a plain of considerable extent, opening out upon a far more extensive tract of level country, which in its turn was bounded and islanded at various distances by chains or groups of brown or purple hills. The snow which covered all the highlands, and descended nearly to the skirts of the semicircle of mountains, had disappeared from the plain at their foot; in the midst of which might be seen the wall of a considerable city, rising but little above the surface of the surrounding ground. It was marked at regular distances by the projections ofsemicircular bastions, which were almost the only objects that gave the slightest character to the mean and shapeless collection of buildings it inclosed, unvaried at that time by either minaret or dome. This city was Zehran, already selected by the successful chief of the Kajar tribe as the capital of that empire for which he was still contending, because it was near the domains of his family, and his other resources, and therefore fittest to be the sovereign's fixed abode. On the crenilated wall and roofs of this city the morning sun, having cleared the bank of clouds that rested on the shoulder of Dema- wound, and the lofty regions of Feerozekoh, shed a red but brilliant light, and played upon the numerous groups of men and an... |
