'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎237] (278/562)

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After breakfafting with the French refident at his country houfe, and tak
ing leave of the French gentlemen, who were fo complailant as to attend us
down to the water's edge, we went on board the yacht. About 8 o'clock,
we began to track up the Euphrates, accompanied by Mefirs. Shaw and Purnel
who were fo polite as to infift on going a few miles with us. They left us
about noon, after our exchanging mutual good wifhes and compliments.
Monl. Hemet of French extraction, but for many years employed as inter
preter to the Englijh factory An East India Company trading post. at Ifpahan, and now ruined in his circumftances
by the civil wars carried on in Perfta, joined us at Bajfora, on his way to
Baghdad* where his family refidedand he propofed carrying them from
thence to Venice, his wife's native place.
We found it extremely pleafant on the river, and were fo lucky as to
have a brifk foutherly wind. At fix in the morning, we pa/fed by the
ruins of an old village j and a little afterwards faw a tomb on the Arabian
fhore. At feven, we were obliged to anchor, in order to wait for the coming
up of our luggage-boat. At half paft feven weighed again, and difcovered
a fmall Arab camp, in which, were many fheep. The defert came up clofe
to the river on the left-hand fide. About ten, we pafled by the tomb
of Meti Sahah Zemaun y who we were told was the Ton of Mahomet. He
had been dead 1170 years, and according to the tradition of the country,
was to appear again in a very fhort time, when he would mount on the
back of an untamed mule in the foreft, ride over the face of the whole
earth, and be its fovereign : the tomb Hands on the Arabian fhore.
At twelve, we palfed by another tomb on the fame fide, railed to the
memory ot Aly Kb en Hajfein,. a nephew of Aly the renowned.
Between five and fix in the afternoon, we reached the village of Corn a
or Quorne > near which place refides the chief of the Janizaries of this
pr ovince. Coma lies betwixt the two rivers Fygris and Euphrates, By
tJu defire ot our Chocarda, we faluted the Sheick of the place-, three
guns only were intended, but our Lafcar gunner, willing to give more,
primed the fourth, and fired it. At eight in the evening we left Coma*,
Had cloudy weather with lightning to the fouthward. At half paft twelve
at night, we were obliged to come to an anchor : the weather fqually, the
wind S. S. W. and a (trong tide letting to the N. E. We failed thefe laft
24 hours, about 75 miles.
At two-o'clock in the morning we made fail again, the weather becoming
fair: at five handed the fails, and lent the Trackers on fhore. The river is
here about five hundred yards broad. Both fhores are very pleafant, particu
larly that on our left, where is a great deal of ripe corn, which the people are
now gathering in ; on the other fide large numbers of cattle are grazing. Geo
graphers conje6lure the country around here to have been the feat of the gar
den of Eden for no other reafon probably but becaufe it is pleafant, and
lies between the Tygris and Euphrates, We obferved a company of above 60
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