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IX.] TRAVELS IN OMAN. 125
CHAPTER IX.
Revenue of Neswah—Currency—Author lodges in a Mosque—
Tanuf—Mountain Scenery—Perilous Descent — Seyk—Ami
able character of its Inhabitants—Romantic Landscape—Hodin
—Pomegranate Wine — Shirazi—A Termagant — Bedowin
Curiosity—Country of the Franks—Description qf Shirazi—
Excursions—The Almond—Figs, $c.—Altitude of the Moun
tains— Wild Animals.
Neswah is the only town in Omin from
whence the Imbi derives any revenue, and
even here it is scarcely more than nominal,
for not more than one thousand dollars a
year are remitted to him. The following are
the coins in current use amidst the towns in
the interior. They were nearly all coined
during the reign of Imam Saaf, and differ
from those now in use at Maskat and on the
sea coast. All have inscriptions, but nothing
bearing a likeness to any object in animated
nature.
