!['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.' [‎460] (491/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0493.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎460] (491/582)")
'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.' [460] (491/582)
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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EL KATEEF.
Graine to Katif lies south by west; and that a course from the
island of Ohah, of south by west, will carry a vessel inside the
islands between Graine and Kateef, and a course of south by
east outside of them; yet he lays down this coast in his
chart as about south-east half-south, or nearly four points dif
ferent from that given in the Directory* In a commercial
work like Mr. Milburn's, one does not expect so much hydro.,
graphical accuracy; and when we find him placing Bahrein
thirty leagues west-north-west from Bushire,f an error of nearly
as many leagues in distance, and of about six points in the course,
one does not feel so much disappointment; but Captain Hors-
burgh is an authority so highly and so deservedly esteemed,
that it is in every point of view desirable to see his excellent work
as free of blemishes as possible.
El Kateef is situated in about lat. 26° 20' north, and long,
about 60° 0' east. It is a large trading town, intimately connected
with the Bahrein Islands, and sharing in their pearl fishery as well
as their general commerce, though the governments are independ
ent of each other. It has a deep bay, in which the vessels of the pearl
fishery are also laid up, as well as at Laghere, during the winter
season. It is a singular fact, confirmed by all those who are well
acquainted with the Gulf, that no worms are found to injure
vessels' bottoms, or sunken wood, throughout its waters, de
structive as that cause is to ships in all other seas. On the Per
sian side of the Gulf, there are no coral banks, and few other
shoals, the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
being mostly regular, on a muddy bottom,
and the water thick and foul. On the Arabian side, coral banks
and shoals abound, as in the Red Sea, with most irregular sound
ings, a rocky and sandy bottom, and the water beautifully transpa-
• Horsburgh's Sailing Directions, p. 247, 4.to. We have great pleasure in saying, that in
later editions of these works, these errors have been revised, and that all subsequent improve
ments in our knowledge of thjese shores are embodied in the successive editions of Captain
Horsburgh's Charts and Sailing Directions as they appear. See this subject discussed in the
Oriental Herald, for September, 1828.
t Milbum's Oriental Commerce, 4to. 1813. vol. 1, p. 119.
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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.'
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- 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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