'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.' [‎534] (565/582)

534 ' NAUTICAL OBSERVATIONS.—GULF OF CUTCH.
We still observed the regularity of the ship's coming up and
falling off at intervals of about twelve hours, with a freshening
and moderating of the wind between the changes, exactly as in the
land and sea-breezes along-shore. We began to come up at noon
from south-south-east gradually to east-north-east at sun-set, and
east about ten o'clock, the period of the sea-breeze, when the
wind of the ocean here followed its direction in a slight degree,
and was thus drawn more northerly, or less off the land, than the
monsoon, without such influence, would have been. After mid
night we again began to fall off in the same gradual way from east
to south-east until past sun-rise, when the winds blew from the
east-north-east, evidently influenced by the land-breezes which
blow off during that period ; a variation highly favourable, if taken
due advantage of, to the navigation of this sea, particularly when
approaching the Indian coast from the Red Sea or the Persian
Gulf.
D ec. 14th.— A s we closed in the Gulf of Cutch, we found the
heavy eastern swell setting out of it, now exchanged for smoother
water, and its violent squalls for steady though still fresh breezes.
The wind too became more favourable, as its variation through
the day and night was from north-east to north-north east, en
abling us to lie east-south-east when most off, and to come up to
east for an equal space of time. This circumstance, as it bright
ened our hopes of a less tedious passage than we had prepared for,
admitted of an additional allowance of provisions to the crew,
before they began to suffer from its first reduction.
Before noon, our lunar distances were repeated, and a mean of
one set of three-sights, and a single one, taken alternately by the
commander and myself, as before, gave us a longitude of 68° 23'
east at ten a.m., when our observation at noon made us in latitude
19° 40' north, and longitude 68° S%' east, by chronometer. As we
advanced in a south-east line, we found the weather more and
more steady, the winds more moderate in their force, and the
water smoother.