'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎269] (412/474)

JOURNEY TO PERSEPOLIS.
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the Persians this is very rare. A Persian master is
good-humoured, but not in general kind or com
passionate, and the servants are, consequently,
scarcely ever attached. In short, a Persian is too
indifferent to everything; not from apathy, but from
a kind of trifling vivacity. Nothing can fix or im
press him.
September 17^.—This morning I went to the
tomb of Saadi, situated a little way up the pass
which goes by his name, and through which the road
to Kerman lays. The Saadia is a small square in-
closure with a high brick wall, containing a flower-
garden, where, par parenthe I gathered some
pinks. The north-east side is occupied by a build
ing, consisting of an arched divan at each end and a
couple of small rooms in the centre, for the accom
modation of benighted travellers, dervishes, and, in
short, any who may not know where to address himself
for a lodging; it is in fact a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . In the south
ern divan stands the tomb of Saadi, a small stone
sarcophagus without the cover, which was of carved
wood, and has long since been destroyed. His dust
lies beneath the floor, as the old cmtos assured me.
The tomb is covered with inscriptions, carved in re
lief on the stone, and is the original one ;* as Kenm
Khan, when he pulled down the old building (whic
was an octagonal medrisseh), in order to replace it
with one of his own, had in this case the good taste to
* The guardian told me it was now 545 years since the
Saadi, which would bring his death to a.d . 1276.