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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.' [‎462] (493/582)

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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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BIDDULPH'S GROUP.
north, and south-east by south, and from four to five hundred
yards broad. Its elevation is not more than five or six feet
above the sea, and it has only some scanty vegetation on its
southern edge.
The third island is in lat. S7o 4r north, and long. 49° SI' east.
This is of nearly a circular form, and about half a mile in circum
ference. It is destitute of vegetation, and elevated seven or eight
feet only above the sea.
The fourth island is in lat. 27° 4^ north, and long. 49° east,
it being observed from the ship to bear west-south-west from the
second island, distant five or six miles.
Between the second and third islands is a good passage, with
ten fathoms, on a sandy bottom in mid-channel. These have
each a coral reef around them, but it does not extend far off.
When the third island bore west by north five miles, there were
thirty-three fathoms, mud; and on the north-east side of the
second and third islands, about three miles off, there were from
twenty to twenty-eight fathoms, sand, in regular soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. . The
first island had seventeen fathoms, sand and shells, on the west
side, about two miles off. Captain Biddulph landed on three of
the islands to observe, and found plenty of turtle and birds' eggs
on all of them.
In Heather's chart of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , there are seven islands
lying scattered, with some shoals among them, nearly in this lati
tude and longitude ; but their individual positions are most in
accurate. The whole number of seven may, and do probably
exist, however; and besides this group of Captain Biddulph's, the
islands of Kenn and Zezarine, as they are called, further to the
eastward, may help to complete the number.
The next port above El Kateef of any note on this coast, is
that of Graine, as it is called in our English charts, though known
among the Arabs by the name of Kooete only. This is a port of
some importance, seated in a fine bay; and the town is large and
populous, though the sandy desert presses close upon its walls, and

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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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Title: '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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