La Perse le passé et le présent ; un livre de voyage et de recherche, avec plus de 200 illustrations et une carte des mers . thePersian Golfe ; mais le climat à l'intérieur comme un tout lorsque l'on considère le istemperate - Syrah latitude, par exemple, être plus au sud que Lahore dans la région de l'Inde. Cette factis parfois perdu de vue. Le pays géographiquement de Perse est un grand haut plateau - le plateau de l'Iran - qui s'étend au-delà de sa façade est bor-ders en Afghanistan et couvre au total une zone nearlyone-cinquième aussi grande que les États-Unis. Montagnes avec rockypasses guard l'approche à près de

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Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . mers of thePersian Gulf ; but the climate in the interior as a whole istemperate when we consider the latitude — Shiraz, for example, being farther south than Lahore in upper India. This factis sometimes lost sight of. Geographically the country of Persia is a great tableland —the plateau of Iran — which extends beyond its eastern bor-ders into Afghanistan and covers altogether an area nearlyone-fifth as large as the United States. Mountains with rockypasses guard the approach at almost every point of the frontierand run their barriers into the interior to hold back the greatdeserts which threaten to invade from the east. A part of thevast tableland is well watered, but there are no rivers in Persiathat are worthy of the name, and most of them lose their streamsin the soil before becoming tributary to other bodies. In manyparts of the kingdom, therefore, owing to the dearth of water, it is necessary to resort to irrigation in order to convert other- iXenophon, Anabasis, 1. 7. 6.24. IHK DlK.ULAFOY FRIEZK OF ARI HERS FROM SUSA ONE OF THE GREAT NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY 25 wise arid districts into arable lauds or to prevent them fromsinking back into barren wastes. Irrigation was synonymouswith righteousness in the old Zoroastrian religion, and agricul- *^:li^i®i^S^°^^ ^^^y- ^^^ ^°^^ °^ *^® country responds rap-Idly to tillage, and there are districts in Persia which areaccounted among the most fertile in the world. Over this wide and varied expanse of territory there isspread a population which is estimated at more than ten million ^_souls. The number is not large for the area occupied, andPersia is not counted as a densely settled country. Ethnologi-cally the people are of Aryan stock, but they show an admix-ture of foreign blood introduced by conquest or due to contactwith border nations. This latter is especially true in the caseof the strong infusion of

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