'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.' [‎62] (93/582)

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FROM SERPOOL, ACROSS MOUNT ZAGROS,
give it another name, and the present new one is the work of the
Shah Zade, the King of Persia's son, the existing lord of the
district of Kermanshah. Our whole road from Serpool, thus far,
had occupied nearly five hours, and was mostly in an easterly
direction; but from the nature of our road, the distance, in a
straight line, could not have been more than seven or eight miles.
It had been perfectly calm throughout the day, and hot in the
plains on the west of the pass, even at sun-rise: but on the sum
mit of the mountain we enjoyed an atmosphere that was truly
delicious, cool, yet soft, refreshing, and invigorating, without being
at all sharp or biting,—such an air, indeed, as I had not breathed
since leaving the delightful spring months on the mountains of
Jerusalem.
We had now entered the territory of Persia: the Pass of Zagros,
or the Tauk, being the frontier between it and Turkey. There
are Koords in the plains on each side of this range of mountains
those on the west being subject to the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Zohaub, who is
tributary to Bagdad ; and those on the east to the Shah Zade of
Kermanshah himself, without the intervention of a Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of their
own.
I had looked about with more than usual care for the vestiges
of some distinct race of people here, the descendants of the old
Boeotians, who were carried away by Xerxes, and placed near to
this Pass of Zagros ;* but I had as yet seen none that I should
have taken for people of such an origin. The Arabs were too
* Fremshemms, in his Supplement to Quintus, speaks of a city called Celonse, in the dis
trict of Ghilan, inhabited by certain Boeotians whom Xerxes had transported into the East,
w o retained strong traces of their origin in their language, which was composed mostly
of Greek words, though they spoke also the language of the country in which they dwelt m
their commerce with the nations of it.—Vol. ii. p. 545.
aU I th0rS ^ ve this name Celonse, as the name of a country, or district.
fecti onn^Y ^ 6 lt * n ® re emenso Celonas perventum est: oppidum hoc tenent Boeotia pro-
Ss r f eXCit0sin0rientem transtulit, servabantque argumentum ori-
tern finitiraoruinB erum( l ue vo cibus constante, ceterum ob commerciorum necessitar
tem nnitimorum Barbarorum lingua utebantur."