'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.' [‎401] (484/524)

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the almost total desertion of the city during the heats of summer. Journal, &e. p. 55.
In one of Mr. M orier's routes in the Appendix, Teheran is represented as containing
twelve thousand houses, a better estimate of its size than the number of inhabitants.
ArJc, p. 225.']—Ark is obviously, Arx.
Impress, p. 225.]—This impress was by no means pecular to Persia. Many instances
might be given from our own history down to the reign of E lizabeth : but it is sufficient
to refer to those connected with the subject in the text. H enry VI. pressed minstrels
44 in solatium regis;" almost the very act of the King of Persia. E dward VI. thus
supplied his choir, ( B arrington on the Statutes, p. SS7) ; and in the reign of E liza
beth , under one of the commissions to take up all singing children for the use of the Queen's
chapel, T usser , the author of the Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, was impressed.
See L ysons's Environs of London, vol i. p. 9^.
« £ Thence for my voice, I must no choice,
« Away of force, like posting horse
" For sundry men, had placards then
" Such child to take,—"
Female Officers, p. 225.— S eradj ed D owlaii had a female guard of Calmucks,
Tartars, Georgians, Negroes and Abyssinians. (Seir Mutagherin, vol. i. p. 146.) N as-
sukeddeen peopled a city entirely with women; all the officers being of that sex. He is
said to have had fifteen thousand women. ( G ladwin , Hist, of Indostan, vol. i. p .)
It is very possible that some such caprice of an Oriental despot may have given rise to t e
cities of men and women on different sides of the Ganges, of which we read m
P aeeadibs , p. 9; and St. A mbrose , p. 54: at the end of B yshe's " P aeeadius de
"Gentibus India;," and not very improbable that it may have produced the tradition so
common in the early traveUers, of the islands of men and women, and perhaps the whole
fable of the Amazons. See of the islands the Arabian travellers of R enaudot, M arco
P oeo , lib. iii. F ra M axjro in V incent's Periplus, p. 671. See a curious note on the
word Hamazen, « aU women," in M oor's Infanticide, p. 82.
77,.// H afiz v. 229 .1— It is scarcely necessary to refer to more ancient divination ;
but the resemblance between the Persian trial and that of the
occur to every reader. The Mahomedans have another oracle in the Koran, which they
riiuUTe same manner: and the Jews had similar recourse to the Scriptures of th«
Old Testament. S aee's Koran. Prelim. Dissert. % m. p. 69. The authority of VinGll.
(and indeed, though less currently, of H omer also,) remained in full force to the middle at
least of the seventeenth century, as in the first instance the appeal of C harees i- ^d Lord
F aekeand sufficiently proves : J ohnson's Life of C oweev , p- 13. Lven e
thus opened for divination. Ars Magica, 1638, p. iii.
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