"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. [‎٨‎٦] (٥٨٢/١١٧)

86 VISITS AT KERMANSHAH,
and honourable affection, as well as by those who thought the
contrary. M. De Pauw's remarks on the beauty of the Grecian
youth were fresh in my recollection, and Archbishop Potter's apo
logy for, or defence of the practice, as springing from an honourable
source, were still familiar to me. This instance seemed so strong
a confirmation of the possibility of such a passion existing, and
being yet productive of no corrupt effects, that I had no longer
any doubt but that the greater number of instances were of this
kind.
The remarks of Archbishop Potter on this subject are so much
to the purpose, that it may not be deemed irrelevant to introduce
them here: He says :—
' Who it was that first introduced the custom of loving boys
into Greece is uncertain; however (to omit the infamous amours
of Jupiter, Orpheus, Laius of Thebes, and others,) we find it gene
rally practised by the ancient Grecians, and that not only in
private, but by the public allowance and encouragement of their
laws; for they thought there could be no means more effectual to
excite their youth to noble undertakings, nor any greater security
to their commonwealths, than this generous passion. This the
invaders of their liberties so often experienced, that it became a
received maxim in the politics of tyrants, to use all their endea
vours to extirpate it out of their dominions; some instances
whereof we have in Athenaeus: on the contrary, free common
wealths and all those states that consulted the advancement of
their own honour, seem to have been unanimous in establishing
laws to encourage and reward it. Let us take a view of some
few of them.
'First, we shall find it to have been so generally practised, so
highly esteemed in Crete, that such of their well-born and beau
tiful youths as never had any lovers, incurred the public censure
as persons some way or other faulty in their morals; as if nothing
else could hinder but that some one's affections would be placed