CHAP. IV. 
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RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE. 
I. PERSIA—ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENTS—FARSISTAN 
—MEKRAN—BAROUCHES—COAST OF THE GULPH—ISLANDS OF 
THE GULPH—PEARL FISHERY.— II. BUSHIRE I SITUATION—DE¬ 
SCRIPTION-TRADE VIEW-—RUINS OF RE SHIRE IIA LI LA— 
BUSHIRE ROADS-WATETl—WEATHER-HEALTHINESS-WOMEN 
OF BUSHIRE—SUPERSTITIONS.— III. ANIMALS OF THE DASHTIS- 
TAN: HORSES—DOG—WHITE FOX—WILD BEASTS—HAWKS—THE 
JERBOA. 
I. IN historical interest, Persia is perhaps superior to any Asiatic 
empire, because more nearly connected with the fortunes of Europe; 
and its natural situation shares the importance; for its boundaries (de¬ 
fined and fortified by lofty ranges, which are pervious only through 
passes of very difficult access,) are prominent and decided objects in the 
general geography of Asia. We had hitherto seen only the southern 
chain: nothing can be more strongly marked than the abrupt and for¬ 
bidding surface of those mountains, which bind the shore from Cape 
Jasques to the deepest recesses of the gulph. The little plain of the 
Dashtistan , (that of Bushire ) which seems to have encroached upon the 
sea, is yet the most extensive portion of even land, which relieves hov r - 
ever momentarily the constant and chilling succession of high and 
dreary lands along the coast. But beyond these mountains are fre- 
