Thus a Persian landscape, dotted with hundreds of these hillocks, often resembles a field full of huge ant-hills.

The mouths of these shafts, left open and unprotected, are a source of great danger to travellers by night.

Teheran is provided with thirty or forty of these aqueducts, which were constructed by the Government some years ago at enormous expense and labour.
As in most Eastern cities, each trade has its separate alley or thoroughfare in the Teheran bazaar.

Thus of jewellers, silk mercers, tailors, gunsmiths, saddlers, coppersmiths, and the rest, each have their separate arcade.

The shops or stalls are much alike in appearance, though they vary considerably in size.