'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎102] (153/524)

SHIRAZ.
Slat. Na&b Oaliah Khan , aecompanied bj many of the greatest
men of SMraz, paid their visit of ceremony to the Envoy. The mini
sters manners were plain, his features hard, and his beard peculiarly
black. The usual routine of complimentary speeches and of other cere
monies occupied both parties during his stay. The Envoy, from the
pressing invitation of the court, determined to hasten his departure
towards Teheran; and eight days were fixed for our stay at Shiraz,
though circumstances afterwards occasioned a further delay.
Shiraz has six gates : it is: divided into twelve mahalehs or parishes,
in which there are fifteen considerable mosques, besides many others
of inferior note; eleven medresses or colleges, fourteen bazars, thirteen
caravanserais, and twenty-six hummums or baths. Of the gardens round,
the principal are private property.
Of all the mosques, the Me^edAli (built in the Khalifat of Abbas)
is the most ancient, and the Mesjid No the largest. It was indeed ori
ginally the palace of Attarek Sh ah , who, in a dangerous illness of
his son, consulted the Mollahs, and was answered, (as the only means
of the recovery of his child) that he must devote to the Almighty that,
which of ail his worldly goods he valued most. He accordingly con
verted his palace into a mosque, and the Mahomedans add, that his
son was in consequence restored to health. The Mesjid JumSh is
likewise an ancient structure, and there are six others of an older date
than the time of Kebim Khan . Of the more modern mosques of
Skiraz the Mesjid Vakeel, the only one built by that Prince, is the
most beautiful.
Kebim Khan begun a college, but. never finished it: there were
already six, one of the earliest of which (that founded by Im aum Kouli
Khan ) is still the most frequented. Another was added by Haushem,
father of Hajee Ibrahim , the Vizier of the late King; and the Peish
Namaz and Mooshtehed (Chief Priest of the city) built another.
The trades in Persia as in Turkey are carried on in separate bazars,
in which their shops are extended adjacent to each other on both sides