"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. [‎٣‎٢‎٦] (٥٨٢/٣٥٧)

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date and the cypress, both in full perfection, flourishing close
by each other.
The state of the air, too, was at this season as agreeable as
it was possible to desire. There was a softness in it equal to
that of an Italian autumn or the summer evenings of Greece,
and a freshness not inferior to that of our own early spring.
The storm that had burst on us but the preceding evening,
had purified the atmosphere; and every tree, and bush, and
blade of verdure, breathed forth a perfume, which at once de
lighted the senses and invigorated and expanded the mind.
The heats of summer would seem, however, to be most oppressive
here, judging from the inscriptions of some Indian invalids, who
had come by this road into Persia for the recovery of their
health ; for, on the walls of the upper chamber, the state of
the thermometer was marked in different months ; one of which
made it 101° at 5 p.m . in July 1815, and another at 104° and 106°
in August 1816.
The house and garden in which we were thus happily lodged,
belonged to the reigning Governor of the town, called Kazim
Khan; and, like his permanent residence, it was of course trans
ferable to his successors, as long as it might exist. A few
servants were left in charge of it, merely to keep it in order;
and these were permitted to admit strangers, either as visitors
or sojourners, for a few days, since the presents they received
from such, formed their only pay.
This garden was first made by a certain Imam Kooli Khan,
who was Governor of Kauzeroon about fifteen years since; and
from the then more flourishing state of the place, he lived in
greater state and splendour than his successors have been able
to do. His post was filled, after his death, by his son Moham
med Kooli Khan, who, said our informer, was then young and
in the very blossom of life, when the passions are opening, and
warmly susceptible of the seductive influence of pleasure. As
this young man had come suddenly into the possession of both