Visions of former luxury were still visible in our bedroom in the shape of a bedstead, toilet-table, and looking-glass.

"But we can't eat _them_!" said Gerome, mournfully.
Kazvin, which now has a population of 30,000, has seen better days.

It was once capital of Persia, with 120,000 inhabitants.

Strolling out in the morning before breakfast, I found it well and regularly built, and surrounded by a mud wall, with several gates of beautiful mosaic, now much chipped and defaced.
Being the junction of the roads from Tabriz on the west, and Resht on the north to the capital, is now Kazvin's sole importance.

The road to Teheran was made some years ago at enormous expense by the Shah; but it has now, in true Persian style, been left to fall into decay.