'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.' [‎190] (221/582)

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differently stated, according to the time which they may have
themselves employed in performing it, as well as that there are no
public marks or posts by which the real extent of the fursuck can
be determined ; but all confess that caravans even of mules and
asses do not go a fursuck per hour, and that it requires a brisk
walking-pace of a light horseman to accomplish it; so that the
Persian fursuck is certainly greater than the English league, and
equal, I should conceive, to four English miles at least.
We saw no cultivation during all our last day's route:
nothing but barren plains, and rugged hills and mountains bound
ing them in every direction, without a tree or a bush of any descrip
tion. We had no water throughout all the way, not even so much
as a small pool or rill; and both the wells of the station we had last
quitted, and of that to which we had just arrived, were brackish and
disagreeable in the extreme. The scarcity and bad quality of
the water, all the way from Kermanshah to this place, had been
often felt by us ; the latter indeed was a serious evil, as it mate
rially affected our health, since we had no other beverage, and
neither coffee nor any other corrective, except now and then a
little burnt bread to use in it. The water of the Kara Soo is
so superior to all others of which we had yet tasted in Persia,
that it was easy to conceive why the ancient monarchs of the
country gave to the Choaspes the distinguished preference which
they did, in carrying its water with them even on their distant
expeditions.
O ct . 5th. The young lad, with whose party we had come the
last day's stage, had evidently been brought up with extraordinary
tenderness, and was treated with corresponding respect by his ser
vants, who gratified all his momentary whims without a murmur,
e was now so fatigued by a journey of two or three days, though
e rode upon a pillowed saddle, that he was unable to go further
without a day's halt. As he professed himself to be extremely
p sec wit i our company, and was charmed beyond description
by the long stories with which I amused him on the road, re-