"The [The Men Of Tauris] Weave Many Kinds Of Beautiful And Valuable Stuffs Of Silk And Gold."

Francisque-Michel (I., p. 316) remarks:

"De ce que Marco Polo se borne a nommer Tauris comme la ville de Perse ou il se fabriquait maints draps d'or et de soie, il ne faudrait pas en conclure que cette industrie n'existat pas sur d'autres points du meme royaume. Pour n'en citer qu'un seul, la ville d'Arsacie, ancienne capitale des Parthes, connue aujourd'hui sous le nom de Caswin, possedait vraisemblablement deja cette industrie des beaux draps d'or et de soie qui existait encore au temps de Huet, c'est-a-dire au XVII'e siecle."

XIII., p. 78. "Messer Marco Polo found a village there which goes by the name of CALA ATAPERISTAN, which is as much as to say, 'The Castle of the Fire-worshippers.'"

With regard to Kal'ah-i Atashparastan, Prof. A.V.W. Jackson writes (Persia, 1906, p. 413): "And the name is rightly applied, for the people there do worship fire. In an article entitled The Magi in Marco Polo (Journ. Am. Or. Soc., 26, 79-83) I have given various reasons for identifying the so-called 'Castle of the Fire-Worshippers' with Kashan, which Odoric mentions or a village in its vicinity, the only rival to the claim being the town of Nain, whose Gabar Castle has already been mentioned above."

XIV., p. 78.

PERSIA.

Speaking of Saba and of Cala Ataperistan, Prof. E.H. Parker (Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 134) has the following remarks:

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