'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.' [‎470] (501/582)

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PULORA, POLIOR, OR FROOR.
tion from the original native one, unless one might suppose Polior
to have been rather derived from Pulora subsequent to the know
ledge of its being the island so called by the Macedonian admiral;
but both of them are so nearly allied to Froor, when analysed and
compared, that they may both have been written down from a
native mouth, so difficult is it to catch with accuracy the sounds
of a foreign language, and still more difficult to express them in
writing. The Greeks have been loudly complained against for
their errors in this respect; and it is true that many of their
names are difficult to be traced to their source, or to be recognized
even as corruptions of original native ones. But the moderns, at
least those not skilled in the languages of the countries of which
they write, commit errors of equal magnitude. The German, the
French, and the Italian orthography and pronunciation of Ori
ental names, have often no resemblance to each other ; and while
our own countrymen, even in India, (who, navigating, like Near-
chus, a shore previously undescribed in books, call the Joassamee
Pirates the tribe of 4 Joe Hassim,' and the Wahabee sect of Mo
hammedans, the 4 War Bees,') have aimed to express in a foreign
name, some known idea in their own tongue, one can hardly
wonder at the Tylos and Arathus, the ancient names of Bahrein,
being converted into Tyrus and Aradus, and derived from those
islands of the Tyrians on the coast of Phoenicia, # or at Sidodone
being made a colony of the Sidonians ,f particularly among a
people who, from mere resemblance of sounds, connected Media
with the Medea, and Persia with the Perseus, of their prolific
mythology .J
At noon, we were in lat. 25° %S' north, and long. 54° 38 east,
the low land of the Arabian coast being then in sight, bearing
from east to east-north-east, distant about fifteen miles, and our
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. in fourteen fathoms water, on a sandy bottom.
We had light, variable winds throughout the afternoon, with
which we steered easterly ; and had at sun-set a portion of the
* Strabo, p. 766. t Gronovius and Ortelius. | Vincent's Diss, vol, 1. p. 353,