"بلاد فارس والشأن الفارسي من إعداد السيد المحترم جورج ناثانييل كورزون، عضو البرلمان." [‎٢‎٠] (٧١٤/٥١)

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errors of his predecessors, beqaeathed a scarcely inferior stock for
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Persia ■ a condition of affairs unfavourable to travel or research
, aud represented by a proport.ouate shrmkage m the
SSS number aud eoutrlbutious of foreign wnters Neverthe
less in the works of John Bell of Antenuory, who acted as surgeon
te a Russian embassy from Peter the Great to Shah Sultan Husem,
he la" Of the Sefavi monarehs; of Krusmsh who m the same
1, Procurator of the Jesuits at Isfahan, and of other Roman
STf^s Otter, who travelled through Persia while
Mir Shah was absent on his famous march agamst Ind.a; and
most of all of Jonas Hanway, the intelligent and philanthropic
London merehant, who attempted a revival of the impossible pro-
ject of a British Caspian trade-we have presented to us pictures,
no less lurid in detail than vivid in outline, of the horrors attending
an epoch of anarchy and bloodshed. Towards the latter part of the
same century, G. Forster, the first overland traveller by Afghani
stan and Persia from Hindustan to England, adds greatly to geo
graphical knowledge by his adventurous journey in the North;
while in the South the liberal -minded and popular regime of Ivermi
Khan Zend, who ruled as Vekil or Regent at Shiraz, is pourtrayed
t„ „s by Ensign Franklin of the Anglo -Indian army, and by
Garsten' Niebuhr, fresh from his great journeys in the Arabian
peninsula. lu the same period Gmelin and Olivier sustain the
credit respectively of Russia and 1 ranee.
Turning the corner of the nineteenth century, we cross the
threshold of an epoch when the avenues of entry to Persia having
been reopened by European diplomacy, a stream ot
travellers has followed in the wake of plenipotentiaries,
ministers, and envoys, both classes devoting themselves
with equal assiduity to the literary record of
The two missions of Sir John Malcolm in 1800 and 1810, resulte
in two works from his own pen : the ■ History ot 1 eihia, w nc i.
though written before the scientific spirit had pervaded the
historical school, has yet remained the standard English work on
the subject, and his ' Sketches of Persia ' (published anonymously),
one of the most delightful compositions ever penned ; m the
Geographical Memoir of Captain Macdonald. afterwards Sir - .
Macdonald Kinneir, and British Minister in Persia, which tor
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