"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. [‎٤‎٢] (٥٨٢/٧٣)

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seems to have been in a plain, and surrounded by a country of
great beauty and fertility, to judge by the descriptive features
which are preserved of it so that all these considerations united,
confirm me still more in the opinion that Artemita is to be sought
for at Khan-e-Keen, and Dastagherd at Kesrabad.
It was late before I returned to the khan, and many
wonders and alarms had been expressed at my long absence;
but a timely distribution of coffee among the enquirers, and the
prayers of the night being recited in a loud voice, happily quieted
all scruples.
S ept. 10th.—We were stirring with the dawn, and left Kassr-
Shirine before the day broke clearly. Our course lay east-
north-east, and led directly through the ruins of Hellowla,
which extended in broken portions for nearly an hour's ride.
The most conspicuous features were the walls before described,
built of large hewn stones. The whole of the city stood on an
elevated level, and appears to have been of an irregular form, while
the Alwund flowed along in a valley about half a mile to the south
ward of it.
As we passed through these ruins, I again tempted the tale of
wonder and of love, and found a readiness, on the part of those by
whom I was now surrounded, to answer all my enquiries. Ques
tions asked of them relative to objects immediately before our
eyes were too natural to excite suspicion of the motives which
led to them, though, at the same time, these very individuals
would have wondered much if I had made a single enquiry
relative to Zohaub, or any other place at all out of our immediate
route.
Among the feats recounted of Ferhad the lover of Shirine, and
* ^ C0Ve '' ed with flocks and the paradise or park
was rep emshed w.th pheasants, peaeoeks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars and th" „o^
0 ame ofhons and hgets was sometimes tnrned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chace."
—hibbon, vol. vm, c. 46, p. 225. 8vo.