The plain of _Khoi_ (in breadth from N. to S. five miles, and in length ten) was the richest tract that we had seen. It was covered with corn, broken only here and there by the foliage of enclosed gardens. Of these gardens we ventured to enter one, which was renowned all over the country for its beauty and fruitfulness. It stands on the left of the road about two miles from the walls of _Khoi_, and was made by HOSSEIN KHAN, Governor of the city in the time of AGA MOHAMED KHAN; but it has now become the property of the government. It consists of a fine alley of _chenar_ trees, which leads up to a pleasure-house, now falling into decay, built on the elevation of six terraces, from each of which falls a beautiful cascade, conducted by _kanauts_ from the neighbouring mountains. On the right and left is a wood of fruit trees of every sort and description, with a fine crop of grass at their roots. From the pleasure-house is seen, through the alleys of _chenars_, the whole territory of _Khoi_, one of the most lively landscapes that we found in Persia. The _chenar_ is really a delightful tree; its bole is of a fine white and smooth bark, and its foliage, which grows in a tuft at the summit, is of a bright green. Those in the garden had not attained their full growth. Their trunks are every where carved with the invocation of “_Ya Ali_;” proceeding probably from the ecstacies of those, who visit this little Persian paradise. _Khoi_ is surrounded with a wall, and with towers of a different construction to any which we had remarked in other fortified towns of Persia. They are triangular in front, with a species of connecting work behind them. There are four gates, which are of stone, and very superior to most of those that I had noticed elsewhere. Within the walls are twenty mosques and six baths. There are said to be ten thousand houses, and a population of fifty thousand persons, of which the larger proportion are Armenians. The Mussulmans live in a parish or _Mahalé_ of their own. The territory is so extremely fertile, that _Khoi_, with the surrounding villages, pays annually to the public treasure the sum of one hundred thousand _tomauns_. _Khoi_ is much warmer, from its local situation, than _Tabriz_. Roses here were in full flower, whereas a little opening bud was reckoned a rarity at _Tabriz_; and probably in twenty days from the date of our visit, the plain lost its verdure, and assumed the beautiful gilding of a ripe corn-field. Six _fursungs_ South from _Khoi_ is an equally large and populous town called _Salmas_; where, as I afterwards learnt at _Arz-roum_, are “sculptured rocks and many ruins.” My informer added, that one of the subjects represented two men, of whom one, looking over his left shoulder, pointed with his hand to a spot which the people of the neighbourhood affirm to contain a hidden treasure, though they admit that the deposit has escaped all research.