... minerals of Persia, It had, he said, but one gemi-the turquoise. Of its vegetable pro- ductions he observed, that it contained all proper to a tro- pical, as well as to a moderate climate. Few countries con- ttined iuiorte animals tluan did Persia, but the ...

... on a higher level in of Ciro and Dimascus then either in Paris or in London. Science and art were cultivated in Syria and Persia with at least as much succegr as in Europe. In the former as well as in the latter, Aristotle was studied, jurisprudence e ...