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THE PASHALICK OF BAGDAD. 
Soon after my personal introduction to himself, Mr. Rich lost 
no time in bringing me acquainted with Mr. Hyne, the medical 
professor to the mission, to whom I confided my poor invalids. 
I also found a valuable companion in Mr. Belino, a German gen¬ 
tleman, who was Mr. Rich’s Oriental secretary. These were 
all the Europeans of his establishment; but his Asiatic officers 
bore a more imposing appearance, seeming to make up in num¬ 
bers, what the others had in real ability: and it was necessary 
to the honour of England, and the dignity of the British East 
India Company, that in this country the resident from both 
should be surrounded by the usual oriental parade of high 
authority. Indeed it was a good remark of some ancient author, 
I forget who, that “ when we wish to influence men, we must 
make the habits of their own minds our instruments.” 
The pashalick of Bagdad, according to the accurate descrip¬ 
tion of Mr. Macdonald Kinnier, extends in a north-west direction 
from the mouth of the Shat-ul-Arab, (a noble stream formed by 
the junction of the Tigris with the Euphrates, whence flowing 
onward, it empties itself into the Persian Gulf,) to the rocks of 
Merdin, the Bagdad frontier towards Constantinople. In an east 
and west line, it stretches from the confines of Persia to the banks 
of the Khabour, which separates it from the pashalick of Orfa; 
(the Osrhoene of the Romans, and that part of Mesopotamia 
which contained the Harran of Abraham, and the famous 
Edessa of the crusades.) The general boundaries of the pasha¬ 
lick of Bagdad, may be called, the Euphrates and Arabian desert 
of Nedjid to the west and south; Kuzistan and the stretch of 
Zagros to the east; the pashalick of Diarbekir or Hollow Meso¬ 
potamia to the north-west; and Armenia, with the Courdish 
territory of Julamerick to the north. The whole, forming a 
