ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers three things in Persia that are of great marvel-the bridge of Asanchif, the palace of Assambei Sultan, and the castle of Cimischasac. He mentions a city a little out of the road named Sert, where nuts and chesnuts grew in large quantities, and also gall for tanning. The author talks about the city of Orfa, which had ten or twelve large churches built of marble, more imposing than words could describe. This was the first in the dominions of Sultan Sciech Ismael. The author recalls a beautiful palace which the great Sultan Assambei had built; and though there are many large and beautiful palaces in the city built by the kings, his predecessors, yet this, without comparison, far excels them all; so great was the magnificence of Assambei that, up to the present time, he has never had an equal in Persia.
