'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎7] (20/516)

PREFACE.
The following pages are the compressed contents of the Journals of
nearly six years. Their principal materials are neither the sciences, the
arts, nor even the political institutions of the countries through which
we passed, (subjects, each of which would fill a volume); but rather the
local scenery and manners of Persia, and the observations which they
suggested at the time, and on the spot. Yet, wherever that scenery has
before been described, it is but slightly noticed in the following work,
however lull may be the page of the original MS.; and again, where the
proceedings of the Embassy resembled those of the earlier mission which
I accompanied, and which I have related in a former work, little more
is extracted from my Journal than might be sufficient to connect the
parts which have the interest of novelty : while, on the other hand,
wherever the coincidence which I observed between the living manners
of the East, and the descriptions in sacred or profane writers could
tend to elucidate antient history, and more immediately to illustrate
the style or the narrative of Scripture, the details of the Journal are
left unbroken and unaltered, and the references are enlarged and
explained.
The parts of the Journal, indeed, most carefully preserved are the
remarks on these subjects: for the manners of the East, amidst all the