"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. [‎١‎٩‎٨] (٥٨٢/٢٢٩)

jQg ISPAHAN.
Oct. 6th.—The ancient bath of the celebrated Shah Abbas
the Great was prepared for us by express order from Assad Ullah
Khan ; and his young son, who had arrived on the preceding
evening, overjoyed to find me already a guest of his father's,
joined our party there. All strangers were excluded ; the cisterns
were filled with clean water, the bath had been well washed and
highly heated, and great pains had been taken to render it as per
fect as the fashion of Persia would admit. The style of this bath,
which formed a part of the palace in which we lived, and was
included within its walls, was similar to the one before described
at Kermanshah, except that it was larger, and more richly orna
mented. The same general cleanliness in the outer and inner
divisions, the same arrangement of the cold fountains and hot
cisterns, and the same process in the washing, &c. practised by the
attendants, was seen here as at the place mentioned. The same
deficiencies too were also observable: the servants of the bath
knew nothing of the art of moulding the limbs and muscles; the
visitor was led directly from the hot room into the cold, with no
other covering than two small coarse blue-checked towels, and his
feet suddenly chilled by walking on a cold stone pavement, with
out slippers or pattens of any kind; no bed was made for his
repose on coming out; no person came to dry his body by gentle
pressure, and a change of clothes, or to warm his feet by friction
on the sole; and though kaleoons were served, there was neither
coffee nor sherbet to recruit the exhausted fluid. All this, how
ever, was after the best fashion of the country, and it would have
been rudeness to complain. With all its defects, it was procluc- ,
tive of welcome refreshment and pleasure after a long journey,
and we were therefore content. After dressing in haste, we
returned to our own apartments, where a sumptuous breakfast was
prepared for us, of which we all partook.
Information of the arrival of an English traveller having been
conveyed to Hadjee Mohammed Hussein Khan, the Nizam-el-
Dowla, or present Governor of the city, we received from him, at