'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.' [‎129] (168/516)

CHAPTER VIII.
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O n the day of our entry we were first met by the youngest son of the
Ameen-ad-Dowlah, a boy of about thirteen years of age, who received the
Ambassador with all the ease of an old courtier. Wlien he had made the
usual prefatory compliments of, « You are welcome. You have done us
honour. Are your spirits good? How is your health? You have no ailing?"
and then, " TiisftiillciJi, In the name of G-od, there ensued a long pause,
when the little hero repeated his lesson of compliments over again, to
our no small amusement. j
Men of consequence in the city at different intervals presented them
selves ; and as we proceeded, two of the brothers of the Ameen-ad-
Dowlah, arrayed in brocade coats, with shawls round their caps, paid
then lespects to the Ambassador. This succession of personages, whose
rank increased as we approached the city, may bring to mind the
princes more and more honourable, which Balak sent to Balaam, (Num
bers, xxii. 15.) At length the governor in person, the eldest son of
the Ameen-ad-Dowlah, came out a mile from the city to meet the
Ambassador. _ >
Our procession, which by the accession of all the curious of Ispahan,
had now become an immense multitude, made its way in very
good order, until it entered some newly planted avenues at the
entrance of the city, where owing to the confinement of walls it
was frequently impeded in its progress. These avenues occupy, as I
conjecture, the place of what was the longest and the largest street of
Ispahan in the time of Chardin *, which he says was thirty paces broad,
and about a quarter of a league in length. The one nearest to the
city is called Fhatabad after the King, the other through which we
made our entry, Ameen Abad, after the Ameen-ad-Dowlah. In the Old
Testament there are innumerable instances of new names given to
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* Amst. 8vo. ed. vol. ix. p. 187.