text: " The impression made by the sight of the ballet on the Parsees who invariably reduce every thing to pounds shillings and pence took a different form; and they express unbounded astonishment on being told that Taglioni was paid a hundred and fifty guineas a-night "that such a sum should be paid to a woman to stand a long time like a goose on one leg then to throw one leg straight out twirl round three or four times with the leg thus extended curtsy so low as nearly to seat herself on the stage and spring from one side of the stage to another all which jumping about did not occupy an hour!" [6] The Persian princes go more into detail; but we doubt whether their description will much facilitate the construction of a railway from Ispahan to Shiraz