"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٢‎٣] (٥٨٢/٥٤)

TO KESRABAD, OR DASTAGHERD.
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ing Kesrabad, and which was there called Nahr-el-Khan-e-Keen,
from a belief that it was the same which flowed by that place, was
here called Giaour-Soo, or the " Water of the Infidels," evidently
relating to the " Giaour-Tuppe-se," the hill on which we stood.
From hence it was seen flowing from the north-east through
a fine plain, the stream itself being visible from a bearing of
north to west, and its banks plainly to be traced still farther
each way, from their being covered with verdure, and having fine
green plots of cultivated land on each side.
This river was distant from the ruins in question little more
than a mile, and might be said to have covered the approach to it
from the north-west. It was this consideration chiefly, though
strengthened considerably by the appearance of the ruins, the
name both of it and the river which covered it, with the figures
and coins found here, which led me to suppose that it might be
the site of the celebrated Palace of Dastagherd.
M. D'Anville, in his " Memoir on the Euphrates and the
Tigris," when treating of the expedition of Heraclius against
Persia, and the flight of Chosroes, by which it was terminated,
says: " In that campaign, Heraclius passed successively the Great
and the Little Zab, # and a third river, named Torna." This is
conceived, with some show of probability from the resemblance of
names, to have been the Tornadatum of Pliny.f
A river, called Physcus by Xenophon, Gorgus by Ptolemy,
Odoine by Ta vernier, and Odorneh by D'Anville, is assumed for
this ; among all which names, no one like Diala certainly appears.
Its position, however, as the third river from Nineveh to Ctesiphon
on the east bank of the Tigris, may form a more certain guide
* In the expedition of Cyrus, the first of these rivers is mentioned as the Zabatus, and
said to be four plethra in breadth; and iti a note on this passage it is observed, that the
Zabatus, or Zabus, called also by the Greeks Lycus, preserves its original name Zab.—Geoo-.
Anc. tom. ii. p. 243.— Expedition de Cyrus dans I'Asie Superieur, tt la Retraite de Dix Mills, par
M. Larcher. Paris, l2mo. 1778, tom. i. 1. 2—19. p. 148.
"t" When speaking of an Antiocha, thought to be the Opis of Xenophon and Strabo, Pliny
describes it as seated " inter duo flumina Tigrim et Tornadatum.