'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.' [‎72] (107/516)

• Nokara is a large dmm—Nokara Khoneh, the plaee of drums.
72 CORBAL.
and notwithstanding their misery, the inhabitants went through the
forms of hospitality towards us.
On the 27th of April I sent my servants and baggage forwards,
to take possession of a building and garden, situated about half a
mile from the ruins of Persepolis, and proceeded with my Meh-
mandar to Corbal, where I was told I should see the Nokara Khoneh *
of Jemsheed, with many sculptures and remains of antiquity. We
passed the chain of rocky mountains which rise abruptly behind
Zergoon, and instead of keeping the road that leads to the bridge
over the river of the Bend Emir, we took to the right; and
having crossed a small turfy plain that recedes behind the Zergoon
mountain, at the farthest extremity of which are a number of wells
and water-wheels for the irrigation of a plantation of tobacco, we
passed over an angle of the mountains, which form the southern and
western boundary of the great plain of Merdasht. We then kept close
at the foot of these mountains, in a south-easterly direction, with the
river flowing to the left of our road, until we came to a remarkable-
looking rock, which forms a termination to the range, and behind
which new mountains arise of extraordinary shapes, making an amphi
theatre of huge and stupendous rocks. It is this remarkable rock
which is called the Nokara Khoneh ; but instead of the discoveries
which I fondly hoped to make, I was disappointed in finding that there
^as nothing but the rock to be explored, and no sculptures nearer than