32/43 The number of wells and subterraneous channels is much diminished, and with it the fertility of the soil: 400 wells have been recently lost near Tauris, and 42,000 were once reckoned in the province of Khorasan (Chardin, tom.iii.p.99, 100. 416.)] [Footnote 45: The character and government of Nushirvan is represented some times in the words of D'Herbelot, (Bibliot.Orient.p.680, &c., from Khondemir,) Eutychius, (Annal.tom.ii.p.179, 180,--very rich,) Abulpharagius, (Dynast.vii.p.94, 95,--very poor,) Tarikh Schikard, (p. 144--150,) Texeira, (in Stevens, l.i.c. 35,) Asseman, (Bibliot Orient.tom.iii.p. |