'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.' [‎300] (331/582)

300
SHIRAZ.
a style, and so much run into each other, as to be difficult to
read. The date of his interment was however more easily made
out, and was in the year of the Hejira 691, or 540 years since •
this being the year of Islam 1231. The tomb was reared over
his grave at the time of the poet's death, and he was buried on
the spot where he had himself passed all the latter part of his
life. He was said to be one hundred and twenty years old; the
first thirty of which were consumed in study at Shiraz ; the next
sixty were employed in travelling over India, and the countries east
of this, in the character of a Dervish, and always on foot; and
the last thirty he passed in retirement in this valley, hemmed
in by lofty and bare hills, either writing his odes, or giving lec
tures to his disciples in philosophy. The present building and
enclosure was a work of later date than the tomb ; but we could
not learn by whom it was constructed. The pointed and flat
arches are here also mixed in the same work, and the walls are
covered with verses and inscriptions of native visitors. The place
bears nearly east-north-east from Shiraz, and is distant from it
about a mile and a half.
From the tomb of Saadi we went back by the same road to that
of Hafiz, which is distant nearly a mile. Here also is a square
enclosure, surrounded by a brick wall, but of greater extent; and
the space is filled by a burying-ground on one side, and a garden on
the other, divided by a building running across the whole breadth,
in the centre of the square. In the burying-ground, into which
the door of our entrance led, were at least a hundred graves and
tombs, and that of Hafiz was scarcely to be distinguished at a
distance from the rest, though it stands nearly in the cen
tre of them all. It is formed of an oblong case of marble, twelve
spans in length, by four in breadth, and about the same in depth,
standing on a basement of stone elevated about a foot from the
ground, and projecting a foot each way beyond its lower dimen
sions. The sides and ends of this case are perfectly plain, and
e marble is marked by slightly waving veins running horizon-