'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.' [‎276] (307/582)

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VISIT TO THE RUINS OF PERSEPOLIS.
On the north of the whole we saw an isolated gate, like the
rest in form, but small, plain, and standing alone, after the man
ner of those found at Daboat, in Nubia, leading to the temple
there.
No marks of fire were any where to be seen about the ruins,
nor was there any appearance of either a city or a citadel in any
direction about Persepolis.^
According to Oriental tradition, Persepolis was so large as to
of his ancestors ; and with him ended the dynasty of the Sassanian kin^.—Hist. of Persia
vol. i. p. 178.
Pliny, in his Natural History, says, that while the stone called Sarcophagus was said to
destroy speedily all bodies interred in it, there was another stone called Chernites, and said
to resemble ivory, that had the reputation of keeping and preserving dead bodies from corrup
tion ; and it was in a sepulchre or coffin of this stone that the body of Darius the King of
Persia was reported to have been laid.— Plin, Nat. Hist. b. 36. c. 17.
Issundear^ the son of Gashtash, was the first convert made by Zoroaster. The King was
also persuaded to follow his example, and ordered twelve thousand cow-hides to be tanned
fine, that the precepts of his new faith might be written upon them, These parchments were
deposited in a vault hewn out of the rock at Persepolis. Can these be among the supposed
tombs here? or at Naksh-e-Rustam 1—Hist, of Persia, vol. i. p. 58.
* The following Bearings, accurately taken by compass from Persepolis, standing on the
Platform of the Great Temple, may be interesting: —
Fursucks.
Naksh-e-Rustam N. |
Bagh Nuzzur Ali Khan N.N.W. 1
Zenghi Abad N.N.W. ^ W. 1
Istakel-Khallah ........ N.W. ^ N. 2
Beebee Banoo Imaum Zade ...... N.W. %
Polinoh N.W. i W. 1
JebelAioobe ........ N.W. ^ W. 10
Asfardo0 N.W. byW. 2 W.2
Ameer Khoskoon W.N.W. 1
Bagh Ameer Khoskoon ...... W. by N. %
Kooshk W 1
Kenare y • S .W. 1
Rushmegoon by W- ^
Shemsabad Bolyobaf S. by W. 3
Gheashek S. J W. 1|
Imaum Zade S. by E. i E. 1
The Temple of Persepolis fronted due W. by S. ^ S.