Mr. Buckingham’s Address. 
ports of Borst, debian: Tripolis, and Laodicea, with the great interior cities of Anti- 
och on the verdant banks of the Orontes, Aleppo on the plains, and the enchanting 
city of Damascus, whose loveliness has been the theme of universal admiration, from 
the days of Abraham and Eliezer to those of Naaman the Syrian, and the great Apos- 
tle of the Gentiles, and from thence to the present hour: ice the great sas of the 
Sun at Baalbeck, the splendid ruins of Palmyra, the g ts of ancient 
genes in the Roman settlements of Reels and oe stl earlier dominions of those 
who ed before either Greek or Roman in Bashan and Gilead, and the regions be- 
yond Jor added hi to beauty, and ssi ne all that the traveller or antiquary 
could desir 
san peed including the ancient f Chaldea, Assyria, and Babylonia, into 
which I from Palestine ba rewarded my researches. In the former, the 
oun sey of Ur of the Chaldees received me within its gates, and I passed mand 
days in this ancient hotbed and ‘ols of the patriarch Abraham. The extensive 
ruins of Nineveh, spread in silent desolation along the banks of the Tigris, and the 
fallen Babylon, stretching i its solitary heaps on either side of the great river Euphrates, 
the Caliphs/ Bagdad the renowned; and the remains of the great Tower of Babel, on 
the plain of Shinar, of which a considerable portion still exists to attest the arrogance 
and folly of its builders. 
Media and Persia came next in the order of my wanderings; and there, also, the 
ruins of the ‘ancient Ecbatana, the tomb of Cyrus at Pasagarda, and the splendid 
remains of the great temple at Persepolis, gratified in a high degree the monumental 
the 
and antiquarian taste ; babes populous cities of Kermanshah, Ispahan, and Shiraz, . 
with the | lovely valleys of Persian landscape, amply fed any love of the beautiful and the 
In India, as the field was more extended, and the time aeons longer by several 
years, far more was seen, experienced, and felt. It may suffice, however, to say, that 
all the outlines of that tiagaifiesnt ‘Empire of the Sun,’ haan the Red Sea and the 
Persian Gulf on the west, to the xt Ge of al on the east, were traced by my bee 
ages along its shores; for after navigating both 
from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb in the one, and from the mouth of the Euphrates to the 
port of Muscat in the other, I visited Bombay, and all the ports upon the coast of Mala- 
bar; from thence to Colombo and Point de Galle i in the Ieland of Ceylon ;. afterwards 
, on the 
coast of Coromandel and Orissa, in the region of the Idol temple of Juggernaut; and 
ultimately reached the British capital of India, foattorehe on the banks of the Gan 
It may readily be conceived that in so extensive and varied a track as this, the per- 
sonal adventures I experienced were as varied as an were numerous; and I may 
assert, with confidence, that while privation and suffering had been endured by mein 
almost every form — in hunger, thirst, nakedness, i aniticnalile: shipwreck, battle, and 
di — so also, every pomp and pleasure that man could enjoy, aa honors bestow- 
ed, and iaitalitics received, agreeably relieved the tedium of my way; 80 
noe beg y course was not invariably ona bed of ruses, neither fered it always across 
a 
Amid all. these changes, however, there was one thing which, in me at least, eae 
happily ne. No length of travel, no amount of suffering, no blandi 
i of tyranny, no debilitation of ann ry of 
pleasure, no intin 
tions, had be suffici 
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