"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. [‎١‎٨‎١] (٥٨٢/٢١٢)

TO GOOLPYEGAN.
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At the top of the dividing range of hills, the district of Kem-
mera ends, and that of Goolpyegan begins, its fine plain, covered
with dwellings and gardens, being now full in view before us-
About half-way down the hill, we passed a ruined enclosure of build
ings, where there are stationed some agents of the Government, to
collect the dues on merchandise passing this way, who suffered
us to proceed in peace, as we were but lightly laden. On entering
the plain, and still keeping the same course, we crossed the gra
velly bed of a stream, now dry, by a lofty bridge of three arches.
In the spring, a large body of water comes from a mountain
called Badian, a few hours to the south-west of this, and fills this
bed, going north-east through the plain, and bearing the name of
the mountain in which it has its source.
Soon after noon we entered the town of Goolpyegan, having
been travelling for about six hours on a course of south-east by
south ; and from the nature of our road, which was almost all
mountainous, we had gone perhaps a distance, in a straight line, of
from twelve to fifteen miles. The chief peculiarities which struck
us, on our approach to the town, were two tolerable domes, and a
solitary minaret, in different parts of it; but this last, poor as it
was, was the more remarkable, as it was the only one we had yet
seen in Persia.
The history of Goolpyegan, as related to us by one of the
Mollahs, who came to bid us the " Kosh Amadeed," or welcome?
in our khan, was thus detailed. In the days of the Prophet,
there was a large city here called Nussway, whose inhabitants
were all worshippers of fire. Imam Ali, and his son Hassan,
marching against it, took the place of the infidels by the edge of
the sword. As the city, though already a celebrated one, was still
rising in extent and consequence, a great part of its population
was employed in making bricks and mortar, and erecting edifi
ces ; but such was the consternation occasioned by the approach
of the victorious Imam and his son, that the labourers fled in all
directions, without staying to wash away the dirt accumulated in