"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. [‎١‎٠‎٦] (٥٨٢/١٣٧)

106 DESCRIPTION OF KERMANSHAH,
not far from the palace, was entered by a porch, extremely clean,
and neatly ornamented by painting and other devices on its
ceiling and walls. This remarkable contrast to the low, dark, and
foul passages which generally lead to Turkish baths, was a pre
sage, upon the very threshold, of greater comfort and accommo
dation within.
When we reached the undressing-room, this prepossession was
still further strengthened. Here we found a square hall, well
lighted from above, having on three of its sides elevated recesses
for the visitors, and on the fourth, the passage from the outer
porch to the hall, and from this to the inner bath, having on
each side shelves, in which were arranged the clean and dirty
clothes, the combs, looking-glasses, and all the apparatus of the
toilette, under the immediate care of the master of the bath him
self. At the angles of these raised recesses, and dividing their
lower roof, which they supported, from the higher one of the
central square, were four good marble pillars, with spirally fluted
shafts, and moulded capitals, perfectly uniform in size and design,
and producing the best effect. In the centre of the square space,
which these marked out, and on a lower floor, was a large marble
cistern of cold water; and at each end of this, on wooden stands,
like those used in our arbours and breakfast rooms, were arranged
coloured glass jars, with flowers of various kinds in them, well
watered and perfectly fresh.
The walls of this outer hall were ornamented all around by
designs of trees, birds, and beasts, in fanciful forms, executed
in white upon a blue ground, and though possessing nothing
worthy of admiration, yet giving an air of finish, of neatness, and
of cleanliness to the whole, in which the baths of Turkey are
generally so deficient.
We undressed here, and were led from hence into the inner
bath, where all was still free from every thing offensive, either to
si & t or smell. This inner room was originally an oblong
space of about fifty feet by twenty-five, but had been since made