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good repair and well stocked; other parts of the town are irregularly planned, with dark, narrow streets. There are eighteen mosques, one, the Masjed i Tama, also called Masjed i Mir Chakhmak, is an old and decayed structure originally built in 1119, with a lofty and imposing frontage dating from 1472. There are seven colleges. The caravanserais number See also:

THIRTY

thirty-three. There are See also:

TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph (See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff since 1903) and See also:

POST

post offices. The Englishman in See also:

charge of the telegraph See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office acts as See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

VICE

vice-See also:

consul.

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