'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.' [‎256] (287/582)

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degerdoo.
to be much altered : instead of long plains and high ranges of
broken hills, we had stony, barren, and rugged ground, with moun
tains of more even outline than before.
In four hours more we came to a small station called Degerdoo,
containing only a few huts, enclosed by square mud walls with
bastions, and a small caravansera without. The distance of these
stations was said to be eight fursucks, which we had come, for
the first time, in an equal number of hours, having ridden a brisk
pace in a large company. There also I shared the same apart
ment with the chief, and was treated with the greatest respect.
O ct. 19th.—The night was at first cloudy, and threatened
rain, but it afterwards cleared up : the wind, however, was high
from the north-west, and after midnight it became calm. There
was so hard a frost that the water in our leathern bottle was
frozen in our room, and icicles were thickly clustered on it from
without. We were therefore obliged to keep in large fires, for
the horses, who were also all warmly clothed ; yet many of them
suffered greatly from the extreme cold. By the care of the chief,
however, the Dervish and myself, who shared his apartment, en^
joyed every comfort.
Our next stage being a long one, we set out three hours be
fore sun-rise, going south-south-east, over uneven ground, and at
day-break we came to a ruined station called Caravansera Shah
Sultan Hussan. The cold was as intense as I had ever felt it, even
in a North-American winter; when we alighted, we therefore
kindled large fires, which blazed around the horses and our
selves, and both the animals and men almost thrust themselves
into it to procure heat. The climate of Persia is certainly in
great extremes : and the story of the death of many individuals
from extreme cold at Persepolis, after a feast given by Alex
ander, may be readily believed.
We set out again from this place when the sun rose, and
went south-south-east, over more even ground, coming at last, in
about two hours, on a fine plain, extending in a south-east