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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.' [‎205] (276/524)

The record is made up of 1 volume (438 pages). It was created in 1812. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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TEHERAN.
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The whole present amounted, by our computation, to six hundred
and fifty piastres, for which, according to the return which we made,
we paid most dearly. The wretched traffic of presents places the Per
sian character in a very unfavourable light. The meannesses and obli
gations to which they will submit for the sake of a present, and their
jealousies and anxieties about its amount, are at least Very ridiculous.
The presents which the King distributes on the Nooroz are costly; to
each of the chief men and officers of his court he sends a kaiaat, (a dress
of honour, consisting of a complete suit of brocade with a shawl); and
he sometimes gives a horse and its caparisons. The kaiaats indeed are
furnished in specified contributions, by particular cities, (Yezd, Shiraz,
and Ispahan,) arid by the Ameen-ed-Doulah; and each kaiaat is the
means of paying the servant who may bear it; as the present, which
he invariably receives as a perquisite in return is deducted from his wages.
The number of the kalaats is reckoned at nine hundred; and their
value, on an average of three hundred piastres, will amount to two hun
dred and seventy thousand. Besides this, the King distributes hand-
fuls of money at his public Dewan to those who attract his favour. A
iarge vase of gold and silver coins mixed stands at his elbow; in this
he puts his hand, and taking out as much as he can grasp, pours it
into the two extended palms of the man who is lucky enough to engage
his notice.
On the 21st, the weather, which had been unfavourable, cleared up,
and a fine morning was enlivened by three discharges of artillery in
honour of the Norooz,
This festival is one of those which have remained in opposition to
Mahomedanism, and was one of the first kept sacred in Persia in the
ages of the worship of fire. Richardson says, " that their chief festi-
" vals were those about the equinoxes; the next were those of water
44 at Midsummer, and of fire at the Winter solstice. The first was the
" Norooz, which commenced with their year in March, and lasted six
" days, during which all ranks seem to have participated in one gene-

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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.' [‎205] (276/524), British Library: Printed Collections, W 2806, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023686207.0x00004d> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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