"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. [‎١‎٧‎٨] (٥٨٢/٢٠٩)

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FROM HAMADAN
From hence we turned up to a broad pass between two hills,
keeping south-easterly for three hours more, over a constant but
slow ascent. On each side of us, at the distance of only two or
three miles, were mountains of blue slate, some of them two
hundred feet high, and, like all the rest we had yet seen, entirely
destitute of wood. The soil was here of richer quality than
before; and through our whole ride of three hours, we found the
peasants employed in ploughing with oxen in pairs, hoeing weeds
by a hoe similar to our own, and scattering the seed by hand,
without afterwards harrowing it into the earth, by which means
flocks of wild pigeons, as in Egypt and Syria, robbed the hus
bandman of half his labours.
After passing a small cluster of huts with little water and no
gardens, called Allimabad, we came, in half an hour more, to the
poor village of Koramabad, where we halted for the night.
From the hill which terminates the district of Tcharrah to
this place, the whole of the territory is called Kezzaz, and here
this district ends.
Sept . 30th.—This small village of Koramabad, which consists
of about thirty or forty huts, was so destitute of every thing but
bread and water, that we were compelled to make this our only
fare. A vigdant look-out was necessary also to prevent the pil
fering of the inhabitants, as they made two or three silent at
tempts to steal in upon us unobserved during the night, but
without succeeding.
We quitted this place soon after sunrise, and going up south
east by south, over a continuation of the ascent of yesterday, with
i Is close to us on each side, we soon opened the view of a wide
p am, terminated by distant mountains, and entered into the dis-
r . of Kemmera. We still met several troops of families re-
vmg to tie westward, in consequence of scarcity, as well as
parties both of the living and the dead, on their way to the tomb
of Imam Ah, at Kerbela.
m the top of the slope, which extended nearly an hour's