"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٣‎١‎٥] (٣٩٠/٣٤٨)

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are), wanting the materials for building at
Bagdad, tried to throw the arch down by dig
ging into its base; but, finding the labour
too severe and not likely to repay the cost,
after disfiguring it along the whole front,
desisted. On entering the ruin, a large flock
of wild duck started from the niches and upper
ledges of the masonry, making the old walls
echo with the sharp quick flapping of their
wings, and took their way to the neighbouring
marshes. As a fact pendant to finding wild
duck in such a singular locality, it may be
here mentioned that they were constantly seen
to perch on trees and bushes and on walls dur
ing the voyage up.
Close to Chosroes's palace stands a small
mosque in good repair, said to cover the tomb
of the prophet's barber ; a spot held in such
sanctity that infidel presence was not per
mitted to sully it by inspection. A few palm
trees, the only ones for some distance, are
planted round it. Save this tomb and the
noble arched ruin, all that now marks the site
of the great Grecian soldier's city are the sand-
mounds covering its widely spread foundations.