'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎265] (408/474)

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mascus, &c. Indeed the bazar is the only thing
well worth seeing.*
I must say I think the people of Shirauz sur
prisingly insolent. Much as I have travelled, both
* The following are some of the principal articles of the commeice
of Shirauz:— ^ ,.
Imports from Bus hire.
Cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, pepper, China-root, sugar-candy,
cassia, sal-ammoniac, tin, ebony, ivory, sandal-wood, cochineal, mdigo,
porcelaine, glass-ware, steel, cocoa-nuts, broken glass for the glass
houses here, incense, aloe-wood, iron, lead, cotton (sometimes), cam
phor, chalk, quicksilver, stuffs, Aghabani muslins, dimity, handker
chiefs, silk and cotton, Bengal chintz, Lucknow ditto, long cloths,
palampores, tcharshaffs or sheets, kaitan (a kind of thin linen),
kinkobs of all sorts, China satins, China crapes, tea, Muscat limes,
Bussora abas. ^ ,
European Goods.
16 kinds of cloth, casimeer, shalloon, velvet, velveteen, plush,
blankets, chintzes from all parts of Europe, printed muslms long
cloth, Irish linen, muslins, jaconot,
kinds, powder, shot, flints, door-locks, knives a nd .^ssars.coarse
paper, razors, prints and engravings, glass, pain g , '
candles, otter of roses imported from Constantinople through Bussoia.
Exports t
Wine " rose-water, otter of roses in small quantities for In la,
assafceti'da, dried fruits, silk, goats' hair, saffron, caramaman woo ,
sehkhisht (a kind of manna for medicine), almonds, nuts, spices,
horses, orpiment, madder, tobacco.^ are sent to Ispahan,
The goods brought from us ire Resht, Mazenderaun,
Teheraun, Casbin, Tabreez, Hamad , e ' are 2500 mu i es con-
Yezd, Kerman, Meshed, Khorassan. .. The revenues of
stantly employed between Shira ^ a " the cleM revenue, out of
Shirauz — 800,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. annually ar
which there is generally paid to the ^ annually) and
From the lake 3000 ass-loads of salt are ^ ^ ^ a
more might be collecte'l f neces^a y. ^ The lake belongs to
piastre am, each being o 4
Aga Baba Khan. , at shirauz, of which
a 360,000 quarts of wine are ann ^ Bushire, &c. All the
40,000 go to India, 10,000 to Bagdad, Bussora,
rest is used at Shirauz. nmduced. The best come from
b 120,000 batmans are annual y P There are 350 estates
Kazwin and Jaroon, all from the Ghermaseer.
or farms of tobacco cultivated.
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