He was electrified by Dr.Grant's account of the press, that could do his twenty years' work in a less number of hours.

At Kerme, where he arrived on the twenty-fifth, almost exhausted by a walk of ten long hours, he was soon recognized and welcomed by a Nestorian, who had received medical aid from him two years before at Oroomiah.

Starting the next morning for the Patriarch's residence, he forded a river on horseback, that was fifty or sixty yards across.

He was now on the caravan road from Salmas to Julamerk.

In the more precipitous places, the rock had been cut away and regular steps chiseled out.
He was received by the Patriarch with great cordiality, without the extravagant compliments so common with the Persians.