There are niches for lamps in many, and a place built up and covered in, apparently to hold grain.

Most of the houses or caves at the summits of the cliffs are now inaccessible, from the narrow precipitous paths by which they were approached having worn away.

The cliffs are excavated on both sides of the valley for a distance little short of a mile.

There cannot be less than fifteen hundred of these strange habitations." The caves of Shahr-Rogan are not the only sights of interest near Beila.

Time, unfortunately, would not admit of my visiting the mud-volcanoes of Las, situated near the Harra Mountains, about sixty miles from Shahr-Rogan.