Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 340
, or, to be more accurate, 11.25 A.M.,when my caravan halted at the base of Bisitun, as the Persianscall it, and far above I could see the inscription and the sculp-tured figures which the natives term the Nine Dervishes. 1 Reprinted with some additions and harahya ; the notice of the Gotarzes… … FIRST VIEW OF THE GREAT ROCK 187 With all I had read about Behistan, with all I had heard aboutit, and with all I had thought about it beforehand, I had notthe faintest conception of the Gibraltar-like impressiveness ofthis rugged crag until I came into its Titan presence and feltthe grandeur of…
Zoroastrianism
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