'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.' [‎233] (264/582)

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inhabit any palace of his ancestors; so that excellent edifices are
thus neglected and destroyed, to erect inferior ones on their site.
This palace, which is in the general style of the plainest of the
old ones here, is furnished with spacious courts, fountains, canals,
gardens, and trees. With such fine models immediately before
their eyes, the builders have succeeded in completing a tolerable
imitation of the more ancient works. It is only less costly, less
gorgeous, and less overpowering in splendour. The apartments
are laid out on nearly the same plan, and are adorned in a very
similar way. Some few paintings of Georgian youths, of both
ascents, each mounting higher by a foot than the other: the space betwixt each ascent is
smooth and pleasant. In the midst is a fair tank, or pond of water, of twelve equal angles,
and rows set with pipes to spout the water.
' At the entrance is a little, but well-built house of pleasure, the lower rooms adorned with
crystal water, immured with tanks of rich white marble.
'The chambers above are enriched with pictures, representing sports, hawking, fishing,
archery, wrestling, &c. ; other places in use very richly overlaid with gold and azure.
' But that which is of most commendation, is the prospect it enjoys ; for, by being seated
so high, it overtops and gives the excellent view of a great part of the city, which cannot be
obtained elsewhere.
4 Returning to the city, you pass over a bridge, arched and supported with five-and-thirty
pillars, under which is a stream of water, sometimes so broad as the Thames at London, but
other sometimes near dried up ; and he that looketh to it is called Prince of the River, a
name and employment of great honour and benefit.
' Abbas, the late victorious King, with whom few things were impossible, for many years
past hath endeavoured to cut through many mountains, (the Coronian, being next the town,)
to bring the river to Spawhawn, by the daily labour of forty thousand slaves, which of itself
runs quietly fifty miles distant thence, and has performed it almost successfully; which, when
it has perfection, may well compare with that old wonder, intended by vain-glorious Nero, be
twixt Ostia and Avernus, now called Lycola.
' Out of the city, behind that late described garden, is a mount rising in midst a spa
cious plain, which by the Persians is called Darow, and supposed that place where Darius,
in imitation of his predecessor Xerxes, wept upon view of his innumerous army, so suddenly
to become nothing.
' In this city is a column, compact of several heads, of men, antelopes, bucks, goats, buf
faloes, elephants, and camels: it is at the base about twenty foot in compass, and, I suppose,
the height threescore. It was erected upon this occasion : when Abbas was proclaimed King,
the Spawhawnians would not let him enter, but charged him with the death of Mahomet, his
father, and the murder of Emyrhamze, the Prince, his elder brother.
4 This nettled Abbas, and made him swear stoutly by his crown, by his fathers soul, the
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