"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. [‎٤‎٤‎٦] (٥٨٢/٤٧٧)

440 ISLAND OF KAEESE.
Greek names, are not easy to be discovered, yet that the practice
indicated the navigation of the Gulf in that age; and that if
the gods were to protect the breed for a time, we might suppose
it was ultimately intended for the use of man, upon the same
principle that Juan Fernandez was stocked by the Spaniards in
the South Seas. Nearchus, he continues, has not informed us
whether he violated the asylum of these animals; but this
appears the natural inducement for his leaving the coast to make
this island, as he had obtained no supply either at Tumbo or
Sididone; and we do not read that the sacrilege, if committed,
was revenged by Mercury or Venus in so severe a manner as
the companions of Ulysses were punished for feasting on the
oxen of Apollo. #
If the size, the fertility, and the beauty of Kaeese, have been
all exaggerated by the moderns, so has its distance from the
continent been made too great. The charts and directories
make the channel to be four leagues wide ; and this is said in
the same page to be the greatest distance at which it can be
seen, from its being so low. It was necessary to assign a motive for
Nearchus quitting the coast to go in search of it, and natural to
find it in the one supposed, of seeking a supply from the conse
crated herds and flocks of Aphrodisias, as Pliny calls this island
from this circumstance of its devotions. But the channel hardly
appeared to us to be as many miles as it is made leagues across,
and certainly could not be passed without its very beach being
distinctly seen from within. The main land here on the north
is a lofty and abrupt mountain of greyish stone, whose surface
is seemingly every where destitute of vegetation, and whose steep
sides rise so suddenly from the sea, as to offer no temptation to
approach them either for anchorage or refreshment. Nothing
would be more natural, therefore, than for the Macedonian fleet
to cross this narrow channel, which, supposing they, sailed at a
distance of only two miles from the continent, would not be a
league over; and the appearance of trees and vegetation there,
* Dissertation, vol. i, p. 364.