'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.' [‎110] (141/582)

110 description of kermanshah,
Those now in building promise to be as spacious and convenient
as these already finished; and when all are completed, they will
add much to the fine appearance of the town.
Besides the manufactory of most of the articles in common
request for the consumption of the town and its immediate neigh
bourhood, there are made here muskets and pistols, of a good
quality, and in sufficient request to be sent to different parts of
Persia. The Shah Zade has a foundry for brass cannon, under
the superintendance of the Russian Yusef Khan, hisTopjee Bashi,
at which he intends casting all the ordnance for the city; and
some coarse gunpowder is also made by the same man. Printed
cotton cloths and handkerchiefs are manufactured also in great
abundance, and carpets are wrought which are thought to be equal
to any produced in the whole empire. These are chiefly the work of
females of distinction ; since to spin, to sew, and to embroider, are
the chief accomplishments of their education. These carpets are
mostly made by the needle, with coloured worsteds, on a woven
substance, in the way that young ladies in England, of the middling
ranks, work mats for tea-urns. These, from their size and quality,
sometimes cost fifty tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , equal to as many pounds sterling
each, though there are others at all prices below this. Others
again, of an inferior quality, are altogether woven in colours, and
sold at a cheaper rate, these being the work of men. There are no
large manufactories of either, however ; as both are wrought in pri
vate dwellings, and brought into the bazar, when finished, for sale.
Every species of provision and fruit is excellent, and in great
abundance. Coffee-houses, there are absolutely none; but cook-
shops, fruit-stalls, and confectioners' benches are very numerous,
and in these may be had all the kinds of food in use among the
people. The former of these are peculiarly neat and clean, and
besides the kabobs, or sausages without skins, there is excellent
read, rice pilaus, and sometimes stewed dishes to be had, so that
by far the greater number of people stationed in the work-shops
and bazars, send thither for the portion of food they may require