VASES. 
They were placed side by side, fronting east and west. They had a 
small cover at one extremity, and were terminated at the other by a 
handle. In length they were three feet and a half, and the diameter of 
the orifice eight inches. Our surgeon supposed that the bones were 
those of a woman and child; the enamel of the teeth was undecayed. 
It is not the first time that such vases have been found; for when 
Mr. Bruce, the resident of the East India Company at Bushire, was 
building a house near to the position of our camp, he found several 
of them. None of the natives could give us any satisfactory account 
concerning them ; and it would be difficult to decide their age, except 
indeed some one was more fortunate than ourselves in finding pieces of 
coin, which we hear have been found within them,^ We also remarked 
in a place of burial, near the ruins of Reshire, tombstones, appa¬ 
rently of considerable antiquity, although it would be perhaps difficult 
to decide whether they date before or after the Mahomedan sera. 
* See the observations made by Sir J. Malcolm on this subject, Hist, of Persia, vol. i. p. 198. 
