"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. [‎٤‎٨‎٨] (٥٨٢/٥١٩)

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ISLAND OF KISHMA.
continue at anchor there during the night: the squadron there
fore weighed in company, and stood out to sea, the wind increasing
to a gale towards midnight.
Nov. 28th.—It was intended, on our leaving Ras-el-Khyma, to
have returned again to the anchorage there at sun-rise this morning ;
but the gale having obliged us to keep the sea, we found ourselves
at day-light nearly over with the island of Kishma, on the Persian
coast, having gradually deepened our water in mid-channel to
forty-five fathoms, and from thence progressively shoaled again.
At eight a. m . we had closed in with Kishma, and had the
smaller island of Angar under our lee to the north-east. The
land had broken off the heavy swell of the sea ; and finding our
selves, in smooth water, the signal was made for the Mercury to
lead in and anchor in the bight between the islands.
We accordingly stood in-shore, gradually shoaling our water to
ten fathoms within about three miles of the southern edge of
Kishma, where the soundings are erroneously marked in Arrow-
smith's chart of 1810, as five fathoms, at a distance of six miles.
Bearing up from hence east-north-east along the line of the
coast, and shoaling from ten to five fathoms as we approached the
island of Angar, we anchored at noon in that depth, on a muddy
ground. Our place of anchorage, by careful observation, was
found to be in lat. 26° 40' north, and long. 55° 41' east, with the
following bearings:—western extreme of Kishma, west by south,
twenty miles ; eastern visible ditto, east half-south, ten miles;
southern extreme of Angar, closed in far over Cape Mussunndom,
south, five miles ; northern extreme of Angar, east by south, three
miles and a half; ruins of a town on Angar, east by south half-
south, three miles; nearest part of Kishma, north, two miles.
The island of Kishma is the largest of all those in the Persian
Gulf, being about sixty miles in length from north-east to south
west; and nearly twenty miles in its greatest breadth, from near
Luft, on its northern shore, to the point near Angar, on its south
ern one. It is called by the Arabs, Jeziret Tuweel, or Long Island,