CONTENTS. 
Old and New Palace. . . 
Turkish Treachery... 
Explores the Western Bank of the 
Euph rates . 
Lions on the Tower of Babel. 
Distant View from the Tower. 
Alarmed by the Arabs. 
A1 Hymer, on the Eastern Shore. 
Babylon dilapidated for other Cities .... 
Climate of Babylon. 
The Euphrates... 
Mesched Ali..... 
Returns to Bagdad..... 
Three Cities on the Tigris. 
Tackt-i-Kesra, &c . 
Susa, or Shushan. 
Tomb of Daniel. 
Relics at Susa. 
Cuneiform Characters . 
Quits Bagdad. 
Route to Courdistan... 
Plain North-East of the Tigi'is. 
Re-crosses the Hamreen Hills.. 
K angavar. 
Hill of the Twelve Imauns. 
Ruins of the Golden City. 
The Sulphur Desert. 
Kirkook. 
Naphtha Springs . 
Burning Hill. 
Route of the Red Hills. 
Pass, or Gate of Courdistan. 
Mountainous Tracts of Courdistan. 
Sulimania, or Suliemania. 
Courds... 
Kunamassi... 
Courdistan, ancient Carduchia. 
Tahite and Daroo Mountains. 
Xenophon’s Retreat... 
Courdish Manners. 
Courdish Tribes. 
Peak of Daroo. 
Execution of a Freebooter. 
Waterfalls... 
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A Winter March. 479 
The Chief of Soak Boulak. 487 
A petrified City... 489 
Frontiers of Azerbijan. 492 
ValeofMaraga. 493 
Caves of Maraga..... 495 
Lake of Ouroomia... 498 
Hill of the Transparent Marble. 499 
Earthquakes at Tabreez. 501 
Public Revenue. 504 
Plans of National Impi’ovement. 506 
Subjects of Commerce. 516 
Russian Territory on the Caspian, &c... 512 
Eastern Commerce... 518 
Alexander Prince of Georgia. 520 
Lesghees.. 521 
Death of Mirza Sheffy. 524 
Journey to Eastern Courdistan. 527 
Second Visit to the Transparent Marble 528 
Kara Shee, or Gipseys. 529 
Agricultural Machines.. 533 
Pass into Eastern Courdistan. 535 
Courdish Stud. 536 
Mountain of Kerefto. 540 
Caves of Kerefto. 641 
Courdish Villages. 555 
Fathomless Gulf. 557 
Ruins of Taekt-i-Solomon. 559 
Petrifying Lake. 560 
Dr. Cormick’s Journal. 563 
Route to Senna. 564 
The Wally or Governor. 567 
Circuit of Lake Ouroomia. 571 
Artillery Barracks. 572 
Ouroomia or Shahy. 574 
Its Borders. 576 
Persian Camp. 5 81 
Persian Army. 582 
Leaves the Persian Camp. 591 
Goorchin Kala. 594 
Plain of Salmos. 597 
Zingir Kala. 600 
North border of the Lake.. 603 
Gaur Teppa. 607 
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