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after a short residence there he resolved, like his brothers, to pro- 

 ceed to the East, whence he returned to this country, about the year 

 J 822. Mr. Eraser again went to India, and was employed in a 

 diplomatic mission, in the course of which he rode on horseback 

 from Constantinople to Ispahan, the fatigues and hardships of which 

 gave the first shock to his vigorous constitution. When the Per- 

 sian princes visited this country, he was requested by Government 

 to accompany and take charge of them ; and on their return, he went 

 with them as far as Constantinople. Latterly, Mr. Eraser became a 

 zealous improver of his Highland estate, which is almost unequalled 

 for its magnificent woods and romantic bum scenery. 



In 1820, Mr. Eraser published a ' Tour through the Snowy Eange 

 of the Himalaya Mountains ; ' in 1825, a ' Narrative of a Joumcy 

 into Khorasan in the Years 1821 and 1822, including an Accoimt 

 of the Countries to the North-East of Persia ; ' and in 1826, ' Travels 

 and Adventures in the Persian Provinces.' In 1838, appeared his 

 work, *A Winter Journey from Constantinople to Tehran, with 

 Travels through various parts of Persia.' He wrote also a History 

 of Persia, contributed various pieces to the Annuals, and ventured 

 once more into the regions of fiction by a Scottish story, ' The 

 Highland Smugglers.' His last work was a military memoir of 

 Colonel Skinner, a distinguished Indian officer, who died at Delhi 

 in 1 841 , and was buried by the side of his friend William Eraser. 



Mr. Eraser was as accomplished as an artist, as he was as an 

 author. He was an exquisite painter in water-colours, and several 

 of his drawings of Eastern scenes have been engraved. 



Hall, Dr. George, was well known as an accomplished traveller. 

 Elected, in 1822, a Radcliffe Travelling Eellow of Oxford, he went 

 abroad, and, after visiting the greater part of Europe, joined the 

 Count Alexander de la Borde, who, with his son Count Leon and 

 the Duke de Eichelieu, were about to travel in the East. Dr. Hall 

 accompanied that distinguished party throughout the whole of their 

 well-known journey through Egypt and Asia Minor, which gave 

 him opportunities of visiting some parts of those countries then 

 little known. 



Whilst at Jericho he made an excursion to the ruins of the cities 

 of Geraza and Amman, in the country E. of the Jordan, of, which he 

 printed an account in 1851, for private .circulation. It is to be 

 regretted that with the exception of a description of Azani, which 

 appears in Colonel Keppel's 'Journey across the Balkan,' no other 

 portions of his travels have as yet been published. 



