'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.' [362] (393/582)
The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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DESCRIPTION OF BUSSORAH.
The walls of Bussorah have five gates, three of which face the
south-south-east, and, beginning from that nearest to the river, are
called Bab-el-Meejmooah, Bab-el-Seradjey, and Bab-el-Zobeir; the
other two face the north-north-west, and are called Bab-el-Robat,
which is near the Mekam, and Bab-el-Bagdad, which leads directly
into the central and most peopled part of the city. These gates
mostly take their names from that of places to and from which
they lead, and are all of them of mean appearance in their ori
ginal structure, and in a state of great ruin from neglect of re
pairs^
For the irrigation of the grounds, for the supply of the city
with water, and for the facility of transporting goods, there are
three large canals that lead from the river by and through the
town. The northern and southernmost ones enter just at these
respective angles of the city walls, and go along in the direction of
them, on the outside, and within a few yards of their foundations,
extending all the way to the opposite angles of the town, and there
uniting without or beyond the western wall, so as to form a com
plete ditch to the fortifications. From these canals, smaller chan
nels carry off the water in different directions, to irrigate the soil
through which they pass.
The central canal enters from the river about midway between
these two, but rather nearer to the northernmost one. This goes
up westerly, through the whole length of the town, and serves at
once to supply the inhabitants with water for domestic purposes,
to irrigate the whole of the fields and gardens within the walls, by
channels leading off from it in various directions, and to admit of
the transportation of goods in the large boats which pass from the
river to the centre of the town, laden with all the various com
modities that enter into the consumption of the people, or into
the foreign trade of the merchants here. All these canals are
filled by the flood, and left dry by the ebb tide twice in every
There is a neat one now building, facing the south-west, between the Bagdad and
Zobeir gates, and to be called Bab Bakna, from the name of the present Mutesellim.
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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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.
The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."
Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.
Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
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- 1 volume (545 pages)
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).
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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.
Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).
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- '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.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- Buckingham, James Silk
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