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'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎23] (54/582)

The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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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.

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Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.

The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."

Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.

Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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1 volume (545 pages)
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).

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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

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