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'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.' [‎160] (227/524)

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ISPAHAN.
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plain is well irrigated by dikes cut from the Zaiande-rood, a river which,
in its course from the West, waters the whole country. It rises from
the Baktyar mountains, passes through Ispahan, and finally expends
itself in the deserts of sand to the S. E. The Persians indeed have an
idle belief founded on a more idle tradition, that it resumes its waters
from the sand, constitutes the river which we crossed at Daulakee, and
discharges itself at last into the sea at Rohilla: a connection as they
still assert, ascertained by one of their Kings, who threw a marked
board into the place of the disappearance, and found it again in the
stream at Daulakee. Two etymologies are assigned to the name; one
from Zaiande, spurting, breaking from the ground, (jaillir;) the other,
from ZendS, lost, alluding to its failure in the sand; the termination rood
in either case is, river. Like every other part of the kingdom, the
country round Ispahan is almost destitute of timber; and the surface is
a most arid field for the researches of a botanist. The vivid rock
of the mountains is lost at the point where their roots intersect
the plain below.
We estimated the distance from Ispahanek to Ispahan at two
fursungSt or six miles. We proceeded over the hills in regular proces
sion ; the Envoy having taken every precaution that the Mission, with
which he was charged from the Throne, should be received with the
the fullest attention and respect. With this view it became his express
object, that the Governor of the city, A bdullah K han , (son of
M ahomed H ussein K han , the King's Second Minister) should
eome out himself to meet him. As he had been led to understand that
this was a point already settled, he was surprised to hear by a message
which he received when he was on the road, that the Governor refused
tp accede to his wishes, unless he first received a letter to that effect
from the Envoy himself. In consequence we made a temporary halt;
and the Envoy wrote a note, stating, that although he thought himself
entitled to such a mark of attention from the Khan as an office of friend
ship only, yet, as the bearer of a letter from his master the King of
England, to his Persian Majesty, he could not for a moment doubt, that

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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.

Publication Details: London : Longman, 1812.

Physical Description: xvi. 438 p. ; 4º.

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'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.' [‎160] (227/524), British Library: Printed Collections, W 2806, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023686207.0x00001c> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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