Note 40 — CHAP. XV. TABRIZ.
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In Grant’s fine and characteristic sketch of the conquests of Nadir, he is led to
——“Media’s vales, Where Health on Tabriz breathes with all her gales.” Restoration of Learning in the East, 1805, p. 87.
The same derivation of the name from the qualities of the situation is given by Sir William Jones—“Tab signifies a fever, and riz is the participle of rêkhten to disperse. There was an ancient city which stood nearly in the same place, and is called Ταβρὶς by Ptolemy.”—Description of Asia subjoined to the “Histoire de Nader Chah:” Works, Vol. V. p. 570.