"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"". [‎٣‎٢‎٥] (٣٩٠/٣٦٠)

TO BAGDAD.
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it readily, hut no wheel-vehicle ever attempts
it. A walk across gives the best idea of the
force of the stream, which rushes between the
boats with the velocity of a mill-race.
Passing the pasha's stables on our return,
we entered them, and well were they worth
the visit. Large airy buildings erected round
a square next to the seraglio, and kept as
clean and scrupulously tidy as the barracks
were disgracefully dirty. Long troughs ex
tending along the front of each building, over
which brass cocks were let into the wall, com
municating with pipes bringing water from the
river, supplied that necessary in unlimited
quantity, and contributed much to the general
cleanliness. The stabling would hold about
four hundred horses, but a small portion only
of the pasha's stud was then in Bagdad, the
remainder being with his cavalry camp: still
there were many very handsome animals pre
sent, and a few beautiful mares with foals at
their sides. Ascending a very ancient minaret
close to the palace, the view of the city is ex
ceedingly striking, and far more oriental than
either Cairo or Constantinople. This, how-