x PREFACE, 
tions in others; and, in all, by allowances for the inflexions and 
inequalities of the roads, 
I am indebted to Messrs, Jukes and Bruce, of the Bombay 
service, for the information which they furnished me whilst I was in 
Persia, and I have not failed to make my acknowledgments, wherever 
such information has been inserted, 
But X must, in particular, express my gratitude to Mr, Robert 
Harry In glib, for the kindness with which he offered to correct and 
arrange my memoranda, and prepare my journals for the press,* 
X beg leave to repeat that this volume is meant merely as provi¬ 
sional, and that X am far from entertaining the presumption that it 
will class with the valuable pages of Ch a ruin, Le XX an way, 
Niebuhr, or Olivier, It is to be expected, that the extensive com¬ 
munication that will be opened with Persia, in consequence of our late 
political transactions with its court, will throw the whole extent of 
that very interesting part of the globe under our cognizance; and that, 
among other subjects of inquiry, its numerous antiquities, which have 
as yet been but imperfectly explored, will throw new lights upon its 
ancient history t manners, religion, and language. 
* The Editor is further responsible for the recount of the pirates, and of Shapour / and 
for the nates, sssept those v/flhiri inveppd pqiqmfis, which are ta'kep ftpiq MSS, of Mf, 
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