!['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.' [‎486] (517/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0519.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.' [‎486] (517/582)")
'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.' [486] (517/582)
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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486
SOUNDINGS
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
AND TIDES.-RAMMS.
which then becomes also a lee shore. In approaching it from the
offing, we shoaled our water gradually, on a sandy bottom, to six
fathoms, within three miles of the beach, where our squadron an
chored. In our way from the vessels to the beach, in the Challen
ger's boat, we sounded as we went along, and carried two fathoms
and a half to within bare range of gun-shot from the houses:
just beyond this, a ridge, or bank, with only ten feet on it, formed
a sort of breakwater, running along parallel to the shore, at the
distance of half a mile from the beach. Within this, the water
deepened again to two fathoms and a half, and here the light
dows rode in smooth water, within a hundred yards of the shore,
being sheltered from the sea by the ridge spoken of. The
mouth of the creek, or back-water, in which they haul up their
vessels for greater security or repair, appeared to us to be about a
mile and a half to the north-east of the extreme point of the town,
along the line of the beach. The entrance to this creek is im
peded by a bar, over which there are only eleven feet at high-
water ; so that it is impassable at all other times but by vessels of
very easy draught.
The tides along this shore set from north-east to south-west, in
the line of the coast; the north-east being the ebb, and the south
west the flood : the former winding round Cape Mussunndom,
out of the Gulf, and the latter flowing up the Arabian shore. The
rise and fall, while we lay there, was about six feet, and the rate
not more than a mile and a half per hour, or just sufficient to
swing the vessels in a light breeze ; but no accurate observations
were made to ascertain the time of high water at full and change.
About seven miles from Ras-el-Khyma, to the north-eastward,
is a town called Ramms, which shows some towers and dwellings,
and has also a creek, with a bar across its entrance. This place
affords good shelter for boats, and is a dependency of the former,
as well as Jeziret-el-Hamra, already described, lying south-west
by west half-west, eleven miles from the town.
Captain Bridges and myself having returned to the Challenger,
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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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