It is built chiefly of unburnt brick, is surrounded by a high mud wall and a ditch, and has a population of twenty-five thousand, of whom the larger part are Mohammedans.

The Nestorians of the plain were estimated at twenty thousand.
1 An analysis of the water of the lake is said to have proved it to be highly charged with sulphureted hydrogen.
Dr.Grant left Tabriz six days in advance of his associates, to prepare for their coming.

But so tardy had been the carpenters, that Mr.Perkins and the ladies found things in a very sorry condition.
It was late in November, and after facing a driving rain all day, they had to content themselves with unfinished and unfurnished rooms; and as the muleteers did not arrive with their baggage, they had neither bedding, nor a change of clothing.

But they had a blazing fire, and provisions from the market, with a sharpened appetite, and slept comfortably on piles of shavings, covered with the clothes they had dried by the fire.
Dr.Grant awakened great interest as a physician.

He was continually thronged with patients sick with all manner of diseases, real and imaginary.