30 TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

ncxt the valley, and interfefted by terraces. A gate, overwhich rooms have been conftrufted, leads on the right to theinner palace yard; and here the entrance to the palace itfelf isin the left corner, through a fpacious lofty porch, enlivenedby feveral cafeades. In this place, by pulling down fomeof the fmaller offices, room has been contrived for a convenientftair-cafe leading to the upper apartments. Befides, there arefeveral rooms, and a capacious Council Chamber below. Theapartments and galleries above-ftairs, are decorated totally afterthe Turkith manner, with carpets and divans, or low fofas,oriental landfcapes, clumfy paintings on the walls, artificialflowers, chimney-pieces, and ftained glafs windows. The al-terations we noticed in fome of thefe apartments, were madefor the reception of the Emprefs in 1787, in order to embellifhthem more in the European ftyle. Amidft the dwellings ap-propriated to the Khan, there is a beautiful oblong fpot plantedwith rofe-trees, and ornamented with arbours; above which, afountain plays its waters into ftone bafons gradually declininga few fteps beneath the furface of the ground. Contiguous tothe Khans refidence, are the fmall, inelegant, and alreadydecayed Chambers and offices of the Haram. Over thefe is raifeda Kioß refembling a cage, in which the Khan ufually kept hisfalcons; and whence the North fide of the Valley, with itsdiverfified rocks, near the upper extremity of the town, prefentsabove the metfhet an incomparable and moft romantic view.A few inferior gardens have alfo been planned between thebuildings of the Haram; and there is likewife a fmall bathconftrudted of ftone: but the more capacious marble bath, whichformerly ftood near the palace, has been entirely demolifhed.

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