... country also stands between our Indian territories and Russia, andev.ery I blow of ours that tends to weaken the power of the Persian Shah, does but tend to enfeeble one of the X strongest barriers which at present interposes an obstacle to Russian ambition ...

... article here is a Imagniticent ivory work-box, elaborately carved with net-work. This is said to have been a present fromi a Persian Shah to the Emperor Rodolph II., aid was long preserved in the Reichsschatz, at lienna, but being accidentally broken, the ...