'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.' [‎190] (233/516)

ENVIRONS OF TEHERAN.
This, indeed, has been the reproach of the voluptuary from the satirists
and moralists of all ages and nations.
Nothing can be so little attractive as the immediate environs of
Teheran. Each of the five gates leads out to what the Persians call the
Sahara, and what we term the desert; a designation not ill applied to
the plain of Teheran, for although it is in some places partially culti
vated, yet as there are neither hedges, dikes, or railings, to mark the
limits of cultivation, the whole has the appearance of a waste. A tree is
a scarce object, which is a curious circumstance, when it is known that
the region of Teheran is only separated by a ridge of mountains from
one of the most wooded countries in the world, the province of Mazan-
deran. The roots of the Albors, which form the northern boundary
of the plain of Teheran, are more embellished by villages, trees,
and rural scenery, than any of the other vicinities of the city.
We frequently directed our rides to Rey, because by rambling about
its ruins we hoped to discover some remain of antiquity which hitherto
had not been seen. In fact Mr. Gordon discovered a rude sculpture of
the Shapourian age, which was satisfactory in as much as it established
the fact, that the present ruins occupy the site of a city which existed
before Mahomedanism. This sculpture is to be seen on the south side