'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.' [‎325] (406/524)

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had to pass, and wore accordingly a coat of mail under his clothes, and
a burnished helmet on his head, and was armed with two heavy rifle
guns, a pair of pistols, a long kunjur, and a sword, besides a variety
of powder flasks, &c. which, altogether, made him weigh thirty
stone. ^
On the 21st we left Arz-roum, and proceeded across the plain to
Hija, a distance of five miles only, on a bearing of N. 80 West. The
plain is covered with villages: I counted thirty on one part, and the
cultivation is proportioned to the population. The season was advanc
ing: in some places the corn was a foot from the ground, and theip was
besides much fine pasture.
Close to the village we crossed a bridge over a nice stream, there
called the Kara Sou^ which flows in this quarter from E. to W. and
according to the information which I procured on this spot, finally flows
into the Euphrates, On comparing, however, my authorities and
my observations, I suspect that it is itself larger than its confluent
stream, and deserves therefore to be considered as the primary
river. Its sources are in the mountains at Suzclan, about nine miles
from Arz-roum ; and it meets another river at Serchembeh. The sources
of the Tigris are said to be at a village called Nehel, near Gever 9
a place ten fursungs from Oroumi,
At Ilija are warm springs, two of which are enclosed within walls,
for the separate use of men and women. Large parties had collected
from Arz-roum to bathe here, and had pitched their tents among the
rocks to pass the night. During the night an alarm was given in the
village, that a number of Delhis (who have been called the " Enfans per-
41 " of the Turkish army,) had taken up their quarters among us, and
that every one must in consequence look to his own property. Perhaps
there were not two hundred of these desperadoes, yet they had given more
trouble to the Government of Arz-roum than an army of ten thousand
men could excite in any European country. They commit with impu
nity every act of cruelty and extortion; no one dares to reprimand or
to punish them ; and a few days before our rencounter with them, they