"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. [‎١‎٠‎١] (٥٨٢/١٣٢)

ONE OF THE FRONTIER TOWNS OF PERSIA. jqj
General of Bagdad to this place, in 1807, he estimated the num
ber of its inhabitants from sixteen to eighteen thousands At this
moment, however, it certainly contains thirty thousand; and from
all that I observed of the space covered by houses, and the man
ner in which they were occupied, I thought the number of people
here at least equal to the half of those at Bagdad, which would
make the estimate still higher.
Of these inhabitants, the great mass are Mohammedans of the
Sheeah sect, the rest being made up of about twenty Soonnee
families, settlers from Turkey, a hundred Jews, only one Christian
of any kind, who is Yusef Khan, a Russian, and now Topjee Bashi,
or chief of artillery, of the Shah Zade, some few Koord residents,
and many Georgian slaves, chiefly females. The only Arabs here
are merely sojourners. Armenians there are none, either as passen
gers or residents; and of Guebres or fire-worshippers, the old fol
lowers of Zoroaster, as far as I could learn, there have never been any
resident here. The three last were enumerated, however, among
the population of the place, by Mr. Rosseau. If such persons
were here at the time he wrote, it could only be in the way that
Mr. Rosseau and ourselves were, as sojourners or travellers: yet
no one in describing the state of Kermanshah at either of those
periods would reckon among its population either Frenchmen,
Englishmen, or Affghans.
The government of the Shah Zade extends northward into
Koordistan, southward to Shooster and the sea coast of Khusistan,
westward to the Tauk or pass of Mount Zagros, and eastward to
the town of Hamadan. Over these provinces the Prince exercises
sovereign authority, without reference to his father, and he is
thought by many to be the most powerful of all the governors in
the empire, not excepting the Shah himself. The present Prince is
the eldest son of the reigning Sovereign, by a Georgian mother.
He is about eighteen years of age, and is conceived to owe all the
Vide " Mines de rOrient," tome 3, p. 85.