'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎311] (364/516)

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not only an immense number of the peasantry collected to assist
our passage, but also a long line of well disciplined troops, ready to
salute the Ambassador at his landing. The regular fort of Abbasabad,
the troops, the IiAiropean boat, gave the whole an appearance so differ
ent from most Persian scenes, that we were reminded of a civilized land.
The passage of our equipages and servants was going on very quietly,
when on a sudden, we were surprised by a cessation of the cries of the
people who were hawling at the boat, and shortly after, saw the boat
about to sink, and its cargo, which was composed of horses, mules, and
Persians, floundering about in the stream. One of the masts had given
way, and the people who ought to have veered away the rope, having
hawled it tighter, the boat was upset by a natural consequence. No
lives were lost, although the poor Persians who are in general edu
cated to fear the water, were excessively frightened as may be ima
gined.
The fort of Abbasabad was built by Abbas Mirza, upon a plan given
to him by the French engineers under General Gardanne. It would
be a strong-hold, if the building had been equal to the plan ; but by an
architectural arrangement peculiar to the Persians, instead of laying the
heaviest stones in the foundation, they placed them at the top, so that
every year large portions of the wall fall down ; to the unceasing ex-
pence of the Prince. In the centre, stands an Armenian church, a most
conspicuous object, which the Persians have converted into a magazine
for gunpowder. They keep a small garrison here, and twenty guns of
different calibres are mounted upon the works.
We were encamped in a pasture about two miles from Abbasabad,
and six from Nakhjuwan, close upon the border of a small river that
rises to the eastward about four fursungs off, and falls into the Araxes.
It was not till late in the day that our baggage and horses had passed
the river, so that we could not travel farther on the following morning
than Nakhjuwan. Here the Ambassador was met by Kerim Khan, the
Governor of the town and district, a man of great respectability, who
was as attentive and polite to us, as the Governor of Khoi had been
uncourteous. Nakhjuwan, containing about 2000 inhabitants, is the chief