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possible to decide; but it is most certain, that the entablature with its 
frieze, cornice, and architrave, the column with its shaft and capital, 
and the base with its plinth and tores, are as strongly delineated here, 
although in the rudest and most inelegant style, as in the monuments 
of Greece and Italy. 
On the 30th of January, 1811, after a repetition of the same honours 
that took place on our landing, the Ambassadors again embarked in the 
Lion, and proceeded to the Persian Gulf. In addition to our original 
party from England, we were accompanied by Lieut. George Willock 
and thirty privates of Indian cavalry, forming a body guard for our 
Ambassador, and by Mr. Sharpe, Assistant Surgeon; by twenty-four 
palanquin bearers, and a detachment of English serjeants. See. from 
the 47th regiment, to discipline the Persian infantry; and a ship be¬ 
longing to a Persian merchant resident at Bombay, was chartered to 
take military stores. 
On the 8th of February we saw Cape Monze.^ At the sight of this 
land we congratulated the Persian Ambassador upon seeing his native 
soil once again; for although Fatteh Ali Shah has no more control over 
the territories of Sind and Mekran than he has over China, yet the 
Persians do not cease to call them a part of their country. In 1739 
indeed, the Indus was the limit of Persia, and consequently Cape 
Monze was included in its territory, but such limits only lasted as long 
as the power of Nadir Shah lasted, and since then they have retired to 
the boundaries of the province of Kirman, which on the sea coast ter¬ 
minate at Cape Jasques. According to Arrian the river Arabis, which 
flows behind Cape Monze, formed the limits of India in the time of 
Alexander ; but in the present wild state of this part of Asia, it 
would be diflicult to establish any specific boundary. Even on the 
* Allowing Diu Head in the Guzerat to be on the meridian of 71° 6' E. according to 
Horsburg and Mac Cluer, it will make Cape Monze to be in 67° 1'. But by our observa¬ 
tions, when the Cape bore N. ? E. taken from the mean of three time-keepers regulated by 
the meridian of Bombay,and differing only 4 " or one mile from each other, we found the 
longitude of Cape Monze to be 66° 45' 65" E., whilst in the approved Admiralty Chart, 
by which the ship was worked, it is 66° 15' E. 
