Note 565 — Chapter IV · Turkomania and the Turkomans
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“Our path lay through fields and natural meadows of the richest verdure, among groves of oak clothed in young leaves of the most delicate hues, broken into glades and lawns of velvet” (Narrative of a Journey through Khorasan in the Years 1821–1822, by James Baillie Fraser; London, 1825).