'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎28] (59/582)

28 FROM BAGDAD, ACROSS THE DIALA,
It is worthy of remark, that Dastagherd is mentioned only as
a palace, and no notice is taken of a metropolitan city near it,*
which corresponds also with the actual appearance of the place,
there being no other ruins than those of the isolated buildings
enumerated, among the mounds of which the bearings are given
from this spot.-f-
We returned at sun-set by the western quarter of the town,
passing round the gardens, and coming along the banks of a canal
leading from the Giaour-Soo,J and running close by the walls,
• " Chosroes enjoyed with ostentation the fruits of his victory, and frequently retired from
the hardships of war to the luxury of the palace. But in the space of twenty-four years he
was deterred by superstition or resentment from approaching the gates of Ctesiphon, and
his favourite res.dence of Artemita or Dastagerd was situate beyond the Tigris about sixty
miles to the north of the capital. Six thousand guards successively mounted before the
palace gate : the service of the interior apartments was performed by twelve thousand slaves,
and m the number of three thousand virgins, the fairest of Asia, some happy concubine
^4.To maSter the aSe 01 the indifference of S*a."_Gato, vol. viii. c. 46.
OnvL^ThouTh theTf'f X." ^ menti0n0f DaSta S herd in D'Herbelofs
ban hn ^ L ' fe 0f Chosroes ' ,ts P 08 ^". « g^en at length from Mirkhond. Gib-
ou however, who had an opportunity of consulting the best authorities, constantly speaks
o t a 3 a palace, or a retired seat, rather than a city; though he coupled it with ArtemUa
without assigning a reason for what had not hitherto been disputed This hist ' • i,-'
account of the third expedition of Heraclius A D fi2 / e y iSp ; ted - . Th ^ hlsto ™>'. his
suits of the battle of Nineveh to the Greek's, says': "^e^^0?^"
less admirable in the use nf Wtn™. k i . „ g ot Her aclius was not
hours, his vanguard occupied the bridges InteGrcater and rif I
and palaces of Assyria were open for the first f t ,, j, r b ' aild the clt i es
magnificent scenes, they penetrated to the T 6 0 0manS ' By a j ust gradation of
the treasure had bLn remove and 1 . T . DaStagherd ' and thoU ^ ">"eh of
pears to have exceeded their hone- f/d a "T expended, the remaining wealth ap-
palace of Dastagerd he^mrsned M^ ^ ^ . t0 hare Satiated avarice. From the
he was stopped on the banks of thT Arba^'by "he SfficTl'r 1 fh 0 ^ 11 0r Ctesiphon ' 4111
the season, and perhaps thp f«m e ■ ifficulty of the passage, the rigour of
p. MO. 8vo. P 6 0f an ,m P re g" a We capital."— vol. viii. c. 46.
senil'l^Z^'LrfZrs'l?! 1 ;', t0 infide ' S by the TurkS ' and u - d - ^at
abbreviation of Guebr, or fire-worshioner •h "t" T 6 " 8 ' ^ th0Usht by some t0 be a corrupt
the first infidels against which the MohammeflV"'' ' 0n foUowers of Zoroaster, who were
—Malcolm's History of Persia, vol. i. p 200 " armS Were Cted 0Ut of their own country.