'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.' [‎250] (281/582)

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village of ammeenabad.
who had so unexpectedly met, was quite as full of feeling as their
first interview.
The village of Ammeenabad, where we made our halt, is very
small, and has only a few gardens, and these but recently enclosed.
There is a small but neat caravansera, of an octangular shape,
with all the usual accommodations for strangers, and well built;
but having now no keeper of any kind, it is going fast to decay.
It appears to have been at one period converted into a castle, as
stone walls and circular towers were added to the original brick
work. The ruins of a larger and older khan are seen near it; and
before the present one is a square reservoir, lined with stone, for
water. A flight of descending steps is seen just beyond it, over
the entrance to which are painted two standing lions, guarding a
sun between them; having, probably, some reference to the ancient
arms of Persia, a lion with the sun rising behind it, as still seen
in some of the gardens and public places at Ispahan.
O ct. 17th.—Leaving Ammeenabad at sun-rise, we went south-
south-east, over a barren plain, having ranges of mountains in
view on all sides, but generally lower, of a whiter hue, and of less
broken forms than before. This character of the country con
tinued all the way through our morning's route, in which we saw
only a few ruined and deserted khans and private dwellings, until
we reached the station of Yezdikhaust, in about four hours after
our setting out.
The approach to this place is marked by a domed building of
yellow brick, the tomb of an Imaum Zade, and the place on which
it stands is called Ali-abad. Among the humbler graves which sur
round it, we noticed the rude figure of a lion, still standing in its
original position over one of them, and resembling exactly the
fallen one near the sepulchre of Shah Rezah, and the others noted
in the large towns on our way.
From our first seeing Yezdikhaust, it appeared to us to be
seated on the plain; but on drawing near, we found it to be built
on a sort of high and steep-cliffed island, in the middle of a deep