There is an abundance of iron and copper from the Urals, dried fish in tall piles from the Caspian Sea, tea from China, cotton from India, silks and rugs from persia, heavy furs and sables from Siberia, wool in the raw state from Cashmere, together with the varied products of the trans-Caucasian provinces, even including wild horses in droves.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Mock name given to an ambassador from persia in the Acharnians.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
It will repay the lover of literature to read such works as Browne's Literary History of persia, Gibb's History of Ottoman Poetry, and Nicholson's Literary History of the Arabs.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell