!['The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎210] (271/905)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023550132.0x000001/IOL_1947_C_142_0272.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎210] (271/905)")
'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [210] (271/905)
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Bazars.
210 ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY. [CHAP. IX.
serai's, twelve or fifteen mosques, and a population amounting
to nearly 40,000 souls. 1
A spacious square, and extensive well-built, covered bazars
occupy the centre of the town. The latter are built in the
form of a cross, and are well supplied with goods imported
from India, Constantinople, and Russia, as well as from the
west of Europe, The shops display good specimens of work
in gold and silver; also copper utensils, rose-water, dried
fruits, goats'-hair, spices, tobacco, fine linen, and the silk and
cotton brocades, for which last this city was celebrated in
the time of Ibn Haukal ; s and there is still a mint, in which
karoons, and the other coins of the province, are struck off.
andent Persist Tllis territory represents ancient Persis, which name was
at one time applied to the whole kingdom. Persis extended
eastward, from Khuzistan to the borders of the two Kar-
manias, 3 and likewise northward, from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to
the Parachoatras range ; 4 while, towards the N.E., it bordered
the Parthian territory. 5 The limits thus given extend the
territory of Elam to the borders of Lar, 6 and it represents,
at the same time, the Nimruz, or Kusdi Nimrodz, 7 of tradi
tional history, which subsequently extended, eastward, to the
Indus, and northward to Balkh. 8
Persis was watered by the Araxes, Gyndes, Oroatis, Arasis,
Pelevar, and Bagrad. Its cities were Corna, Axima, Arbrea',
and Artacana; besides many others whose sites are unknown.
Persepolis was the capital in the time of Alexander; more
anciently, the seat of the government was at Pasargada, 9 the
Persagadis of Quintus Curtius; 10 but as this historian speaks
of the fortress of Persepolis, and the city of Persagadis (qu.
Farsa-Gerd ?), it is possible that the extensive ruins in the
plain, near the former, may be the Pasargada of Pliny. 11
1 In the time of Ulug Beg there were 24,000 houses.—Ogi]by's Asia, p. 3.
Rich says 35,000.—Journey to Persepolis, p. 2'7'7.
* Ouseley's Translation, p. 132. 8 In 54° 20' E. longitude.
6 W 320 1 30 ' N ' latitude - 5 In about 33° 20' N. latitude.
Mam left behind him the Elamites, or ancestors of the Persians.—
Josephus, lib. 1., c. vi
' J >ersla p n>PM.—St. Martin, AKmoires de I'Armenic, Tome II., p 871
„ , v . " Strabo, lib. XV, p. 729.
V - C! ®' " Lib. VI, cap. xxvi.
Its rivers and
cities.
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The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.
Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. . Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: xxvii, [3], 799, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates (1 folded), (the plates are numbered: 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42-43). Vol. 1, p. 705-706 and p. 707-708 are fold-out leaves.
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- 'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.'
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- front, back, spine, head, edge, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:30, 1:8, 8a, 8a, 9:34, 34a:34b, 35:48, 48a:48b, 49:92, 92a:92b, 93:114, 114a:114b, 115:116, 116a:116b, 117:138, 138a:138b, 139:189, 188:198, 198a:198b, 199:208, 208a:208b, 209:212, 212a:212b, 213:230, 230a:230b, 231:266, 266a:266b, 267:310, 310a:310b, 311:324, 324a:324b, 325:336, 336a:336b, 337:350, 350a:350b, 351:368, 368a:368b, 369:392, 392a:392b, 393:406, 406a:406b, 407:426, 426a:426b, 427:432, 432a:432b, 433:470, 470a:470b, 471:490, 490a:490b, 491:526, 526a:526b, 527:596, 596a:596b, 597:616, 616a:616b, 617:622, 622a:622b, 623:636, 636a:636b, 637:704, 704a, 705, 705, 707:802, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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