"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. [‎٤‎٦‎٠] (٥٨٢/٤٩١)

EL KATEEF.
Graine to Katif lies south by west; and that a course from the
island of Ohah, of south by west, will carry a vessel inside the
islands between Graine and Kateef, and a course of south by
east outside of them; yet he lays down this coast in his
chart as about south-east half-south, or nearly four points dif
ferent from that given in the Directory* In a commercial
work like Mr. Milburn's, one does not expect so much hydro.,
graphical accuracy; and when we find him placing Bahrein
thirty leagues west-north-west from Bushire,f an error of nearly
as many leagues in distance, and of about six points in the course,
one does not feel so much disappointment; but Captain Hors-
burgh is an authority so highly and so deservedly esteemed,
that it is in every point of view desirable to see his excellent work
as free of blemishes as possible.
El Kateef is situated in about lat. 26° 20' north, and long,
about 60° 0' east. It is a large trading town, intimately connected
with the Bahrein Islands, and sharing in their pearl fishery as well
as their general commerce, though the governments are independ
ent of each other. It has a deep bay, in which the vessels of the pearl
fishery are also laid up, as well as at Laghere, during the winter
season. It is a singular fact, confirmed by all those who are well
acquainted with the Gulf, that no worms are found to injure
vessels' bottoms, or sunken wood, throughout its waters, de
structive as that cause is to ships in all other seas. On the Per
sian side of the Gulf, there are no coral banks, and few other
shoals, the soundings being mostly regular, on a muddy bottom,
and the water thick and foul. On the Arabian side, coral banks
and shoals abound, as in the Red Sea, with most irregular sound
ings, a rocky and sandy bottom, and the water beautifully transpa-
• Horsburgh's Sailing Directions, p. 247, 4.to. We have great pleasure in saying, that in
later editions of these works, these errors have been revised, and that all subsequent improve
ments in our knowledge of thjese shores are embodied in the successive editions of Captain
Horsburgh's Charts and Sailing Directions as they appear. See this subject discussed in the
Oriental Herald, for September, 1828.
t Milbum's Oriental Commerce, 4to. 1813. vol. 1, p. 119.