[’Marco Polo”s steel mines are probably the Parpa iron mines on the road
from Kermn to Shrz, called even to-day M”aden-i-fld (steel mine);
they are not worked now
[’Marco Polo”s steel mines are probably the Parpa iron mines on the road
from Kermn to Shrz, called even to-day M”aden-i-fld (steel mine);
they are not worked now. Old Kermn weapons, daggers, swords, old
stirrups, etc., made of steel, are really beautiful, and justify Marco
Polo”s praise of them’ (_Houtum-Schindler_, l.c. p. 491)–H. C.]
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