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Bloogiston but was compelled by England to sign an agreement on Jan.
25, 1858 by which he was bound not to interfere further in the internal
affairs of Herat.

In 1856 he violated this treaty and took the city of Herat. After a
severe war with England in 1857 in which his loss was 20,000 soldiers
he relinquished Herat but he added to Persia many provinces in the
western part of Afghaniston and Bloogiston, and also some states in
Turkoman. He was one of the best kings of Persia. He visited Europe
three times, once in 1873. He had European ideas and was a well-educated
man. He started a good system of postal-telegraph and had trained after
the European discipline 30,000 soldiers. Above all he founded a
beautiful college in Teheran which is called in Persian Daralfnoon (or
the place of science). The present Shah, Mozuffur-uddin was born March
25, 1853 and succeeded to the throne of his father May 1, 1896. In 1892
the author saw him at Oroomiah College. He came with a large retinue to
visit being entertained at the home of Dr. Cochran. The work of the
college pleased him and he made it a gift of thirty pounds. He is a
very kind and liberal man, especially toward the poorer of his
subjects. We believe God will make him to be good to the oppressed
Christians.

The list of kings who have reigned over Persia as regular kings make a
total of 255.

CHAPTER III.

ARCHITECTURE OF PERSIA.

The architecture of Persia is of considerable interest from the fact
that the Persians added to their own the architecture of Assyria and
Egypt, when they conquered those mighty empires. Hence the composite
nature of the designs of some of her most famous buildings. A brief
study of the old city of Persepolis will enable us the better to
understand the nature of the architecture of this land so rich in
magnificent ruins. (The author wishes to give credit to McClintock and
Strong's Encyclopedia, for a large part of the following pages. He has
extracted many quotations from this work.) This city called "The Glory
of the East," the ancient capital of Persia, is situated in the
province of Faris, on the river Araxes. Darius, Hastaspes, Xerxes,
Artaxerxes and others tried to make it one of the grandest cities in
all the world. Unfortunately it was destroyed by Alexander the Great,
and now contains only some ruins of the royal palaces. First is the
Chehly Minor (_forty pillars_,) also called Tokhtie-Jamshid, or
throne of Jamshid. Some