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irrigation of which the water of the Dfhuruk-fu is chiefly em-ployed, being conducted through canals along the moun-tainous fide; fo that the ignorant believe this dement to flowupward in the manner of a fountain. The ftreets being nearly averft in breadth, on both fides of the brook, and two verfts anda half in length, are built on a gradual afcent above each other,very crooked, narrow, mean, irregulär, and in a moft filthyftate; but they are interfperfed with orchards. Thefe areornamented with Lombardy poplars, which, together with thenumerous turrets of the mofques, and the handfome chimniesof dwelling-houfes, that are in other refpe&s moftly of awretched conftru&ion, afFord pleafing views of this ancientrefidence of the Tartar Khan. I have therefore caufed one ofthefe profpeös to be drawn, as a fpecimen taken from the upperpart of the town, where the palace of the Khan is lituated;and which is reprefented in the fecond plate.

The principal ftreet, on the right bank of the Dfhuruk-fu, leads to the palace, and is on both fides, for the moft part,lined with miferable booths, erected partly of wood beneaththe piazzas of the houfes; but the ftreet is fo narrow that, inmany places, two carriages cannot pafs without the greateftdifEculty; an inconvenience which is greatly increafed by awretched pavement. Many others are fcarcely fo broad as toadmit room for one carriage, and fome of the lanes can befrequented only by perfons on foot, or on horfeback. Onaccount of the copious mud, however, broad ftones have beenlaid in moft of the ftreets for the accommodation of pafTengerson foot.

The principal embellifhments of Bakhtfhifarai are, its mofques,or metfhets, it fchool-houfes, or medrefs, its baths, and the

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