or SCHIRAUZ, a large and famous town of Perlia, capital of Farisitan, is three miles in length from east to west, but not so much in breadth. It is seated at the north-west end of a spacious plain surrounded with very high hills, under one of which the town stands. The houses are built of bricks dried in the sun; the roofs are flat and terraced. There are 15 handsome mosques, tiled with stones of a bluish green colour, and lined within with black polished marble. There are many large and beautiful gardens, surrounded with walls fourteen feet high, and four thick. They contain various kinds of very fine trees, with fruits almost of every kind, besides various beautiful flowers. The wines of Schiras are not only the best in Perlia, but, as some think, in the whole world. The women are much addicted to gallantry, and Schiras is called an earthly paradise by some. The ruins of the famous Persepolis are 30 miles to the north-east of this place. E. Long, 56° O. N. Lat. 29° 36'.