"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. [‎٣‎٦‎١] (٥٨٢/٣٩٢)

DESCRIPTION OF BUSSORAH.
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the sea. The position of the British factory, which is nearly
in the centre of the town, has been fixed by astronomical ob
servations, to be in latitude north, and in longitude
47 0 .34 / .15 // . east.
The form of the town, as enclosed by its walls, is an irregular
oblong square, its greatest length being in a direction of east-
north-east and west-south-west, and its greatest breadth being
from west-north-west to east-south-east, lying thus nearly at right
angles with the stream of the Shat-el-Arab, which runs by the town
from north-north-west to south-south-east. The portion of the
wall which faces to the east-north-east, passes along the western
bank of the river, within a few hundred yards of its edge, and may
extend about a mile in length from south-south-east to north-
north-west. The portion of the wall facing the south-south-east,
goes nearly in a straight line from the river into the Desert, or
from east-north-east to west-south-west for nearly three miles.
The wall facing the north-north-west, and that facing the west-
south-west, are almost confounded in one, by the irregularities in
the line of the first, and by the last being joined to it by a round
ing or circuit on the north-west, which leaves the angle of their
union ill-defined. The compass of the whole, however, may be
estimated at from eight to nine miles.
The walls themselves are built of sun-dried bricks, and are of
considerable thickness at the foundations, with loop-holes for mus
ketry in a parapet wall at the top, continued all round, and oc
casional ports for cannon; but of these there are very few mounted.
Some portions of the wall are bastioned by circular towers, and
most of it is crowned with battlements ; but the work, though
forming an effectual defence against the Arabs of the Desert, is, to
the eye of an European, destitute of the symmetry and strength
required in a fortified barrier; and the wretched state of the whole
at present, from the neglect of timely repair, makes it look rather
like the ruined walls of some deserted city, than the enclosure of
one still inhabited.
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