'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.' [‎100] (131/582)

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DESCRIPTION OF KERMANSHAH,
flower-garden before it. The one on the north-west is called
Durwaze Nedjef Asheref, meaning the gate at which a Saint dried
up the sea. The story connected with the name is this. In the
time of the Imaum Ali, there was a large lake here, by the side of
which a poor man was sitting, shaving the hairs from off his legs
and body, when his razor and stone fell into the water. The
Imaum coming by at the time, and witnessing his distress, en
quired into the cause of it, and finding that the Faqueer was a
holy man, ordered the lake to be dried up, which it instantly be
came at his word, restored the man his razor, and has remained
dry land ever since. This fact is believed here with all proper
respect; and from its being one of comparatively recent date to
that of Moses drying up the Red Sea, it is thought fit by these
superstitious Mohammedans to be placed beside it in the Chronicles
of Truth, and is triumphantly cited to prove that their favourite
Imaum was equal to Moses at least. The third gate, on the
north, is called Durwaze Shereef Abat, from some person of that
name, who probably built it. The fourth, on the north-east, is
called Durwaze Tauk-e-Bostan, from its leading to the arched
cave in the mountain ;—and the last, on the south-east, is named
Durwaze Ispahan, from the high road to that city leading from it.
Not half a century ago, Kermanshah was but a large village,
the inhabitants of which subsisted chiefly by their agricultural
labours in their own plain, and by the feeding of their cattle on
the fine pastures of the Mahee-Dusht. As a frontier town in the
west was wanting, however, to oppose to the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bagdad,
in the event of war between Turkey and Persia, as well as for the
more effectual government of the western provinces of Shooster,
Lauristan, and the parts of Koordistan subject to the Persian
power, Kermanshah was fixed on to become the future residence
of one of the King of Persia's sons.
Since that period the town has gradually increased in size, in
population, and in affluence, and goes on still augmenting its
numbers. During the visit of Mr. Rosseau, the French Consul