"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٣‎٣] (٥٨٢/٦٤)

TO ARTEMITA, OR KHAN-E-KEEN. 33
my notes of our route, as it was impossible, from the crowded state
of the khan, to attempt to write there, without betraying myself as
a stranger.
I enjoyed my evening bath with all the privacy I could desire;
but as the sun was nearly set, I caught only a few minutes after
wards to execute the other portion of the task for which I had
thus stolen away.
The town of Khan-e-Keen consists of two portions, occupying
the respective banks of the river Silwund, which are connected to
gether by a bridge across the stream. The river here flows nearly
from south to north through the town; about half a mile to the
southward of the bridge the bend of the river is seen, where the
stream comes from the eastward; it then goes north for about a
mile, and afterwards turns westerly, bending gradually to the
southward, so as to form the Giaour-Soo, which runs to the west
of Kesrabad.
The river is here, however, called the Sirwund or Silwund, and
has its source in the eastern mountains, though no one at the place
pretends to know the exact distance of it from hence. The bridge
is newly built of brick-work, and is supported on thirteen pointed
arches and buttresses, all of good masonry. It is high, broad, and
well paved across, and is a hundred and eighty horse-paces long,
though the river itself is not, on an average, more than half that
breadth.
Advantage has been taken of a bed of solid rock, which lies in
the centre of the stream, to make it the foundation of the bridge;
and the water of the river is led under each of the arches, through
a narrow and deep channel, originally cut no doubt in the rock,
but since worn into deep and apparently natural beds, leaving
each side of the rock dry. In this way, each arch has under it
two broad level spaces of stone, with a deep and rapid current
going between them; so that, at this season of the year, when the
water is low, a person can walk dry-shod across the rock, by the
side of the bridge; and the places beneath the arches form so