'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.' [‎41] (72/582)

to artemita, or khan-e-keen.
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is outside this enclosure, is large and commodious; in its con
struction were used a large quantity of square red bricks, similar
to those seen at Modain, and taken probably from the ruins
above. The river Alwund flows by the spot, in a valley run
ning from east to west; and after passing the town about half
a mile, it makes a bend to the south-westward: its stream is
narrow, but rapid and clear, and its banks are generally covered
with rushes.
Sir John Malcolm, and after him M'Donald Kinnier, had con
ceived the ruins here to be those of Dastagherd; but besides that
the circumstances described correspond so accurately with the site
of Hellowla and Shirine, it is deficient in the three leading fea
tures given to the site' of Dastagherd. The approach to it from
the northward or westward is not covered by a deep river, the
stream being on the south: the situation itself is such as could
not be easily made to have around 1 it every thing that is agreeable
in nature; and its distance is more than three days' march from
the halt of Heraclius, at the river, twelve miles from Ctesiphon.
Mr. Kinnier, who in his map fixes both Artemita and Dastagherd
at this station of Kassr-Shirine, endeavours in his Memoir to
prove that these two were not one and the same place. He ob
jects more particularly to its being the true site of the former,
from its disagreement in distance with the five hundred stadia of
Isidore and Strabo, or somewhat more than sixty miles, at which
this is placed from Ctesiphon,—Kassr Shirine being, as he himself
observes, ninety miles at the lowest computation.* If it be too
distant, then, from the capital for the site of Artemita, which is
called five hundred stadia, or seventy-one Roman miles, it is still
more so for that of Dastagherd, which is expressly said to have been
only sixty miles from thence.f The situation of this last, too,
* Geographical Memoir on Persia, p. 306, 4to.
f Dastagherd was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of the capital.
—Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. viii, p. 244 ; and D'Anville, in Memoires
de I'Academie des Inscriptions, vol. xxxii. p. 568.
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