'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.' [‎537] (568/582)

ARRIVAL AT BOMBAY.
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As we approached still on an east-south-east course, the lead
was discontinued, the weather being clear, and the marks now a
better guide than soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. . Standing on until the light-house
was in one with Browton's Grove, with the flag-staff of Bombay,
and with the highest part of the Neat's Tongue, all at one time,
we were then right off the pitch of the south-west prong, which
extends nearly three miles in that direction off the light-house,
from which we were then distant about three miles and a half, or
half a mile to the southward of the pitch of the prong, in seven
fathoms water. A good mark for the clear passage along this
reef is the Funnel Hill, just touching in one with the northern
brow of Great Caringa, on which is an old Portuguese convent;
but this is not seen in thick weather.
Having the marks described in one, we hauled close round the
south-west prong, steering north-east by east, and bringing a small
low island, with a beacon on it, called the Oyster Rock, nearly on
with the square steeple of Bombay church, keeping the church
still a little open to the westward of the beacon, in order to clear
the outer edge of the south-east prong. We might have shaped a
course of north-east by north, for the buoy of the Sunken Rock,
if the wind had been free, and from thence gained the an
chorage ; but the wind heading us off from the northward, we
were obliged to beat up the harbour by short tacks, in which we
were favoured by the young flood-tide, and anchored in safety
before sun-set.
I repaired instantly to the shore, and met a cordial welcome
from the friends whom I had left here about twelve months before,
on my voyage to Suez, by the Red Sea ; since which I had tra
versed nearly the whole of Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia
Minor, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Persia: and
therefore had much to relate; while my complexion had been so
changed by the scorching heats of the Desert, and my full daik
beard and Oriental garments had become so much a part of myself,
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