INDEX. 
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Banditti rob certain Kofla travellers, ii. 36. 
-, rencontre with, ii. 64. 
-, ancient, of the caves of Galilee, ii. 549, 
550. 
-of the Devil’s Valley, ii. 675. 677. 
Banqueting-house at Chehel-Minar, remarks on 
the conflagration of, by Alexander the Great, 
i. 648. 650. 
Barney, village of, ii. 534. 
Barbyzes, the ancient river, ii. 761. 
Barma mountains, ii. 477. 
Barry, village of, ii. 593. 
Bartin-sou river, the ancient Parthenius, ii. 722. 
Basaltic valley, ii. 624. 
Bashi Chifflick, village of, ii. 699. 
Bashlick, won by Cossacks, i. 44. 
Bas-relief pillar at Mourg-aub, i. 492—494. 
- of King Baharam, i. 533. 537. 
-of an equestrian combat, i. 537. 540. 
545. 
-of Shapoor, i. 540. 545. 
-, an historical and allegorical one, i. 
548. 557. 
-- of a king haranguing his people, i. 
557. 561. 
— at Nakshi-Rajab, i. 572. 574. 
—-symbolical, of Noah, i. 592. 
-— at the Palace of Forty Pillars, i. 595. 
-combat of a lion and a bull, i. 598, 
599. 603. 
-, ancient, at the Palace of Forty Pil¬ 
lars, 600, et seq. 
-, history in illustration of those at 
the palace, i. 618. 627. 
-, remarks in illustration of them, i. 628. 
631. 
-, others at Chehel-Minar, i. 653, et seq. 
-, remarks on the, i. 657. 
-of three crowned figures at Tackt-i- 
Bostan, ii. 173. 
-- of an equestrian figure at Tackt-i- 
Bostan, ii. 174. 177. 
--of the boar hunt at the same place, ii. 
175. 
•-of the deer hunt, ii. 176, 177. 
-of the two kings at Tackt-i-Bostan, ii. 
188. 
Bas-reliefs, ancient, i. 530—532. 
-, Sassanian, at Shiraz, i. 706. 
---, of a building near the Palace of 
Forty Pillars, i. 663. 666. 
-at Be-Sitoon, ii. 154, et seq. 
-— on the rock in the plain of Salmos, ii. 
598, 599. 
-of the Theban obelisk at Constan¬ 
tinople, ii. 752, 753- 
Bastinado, punishment of the, i. 716. 718. 
Baths in the royal palace at Tabreez, i. 230. 233. 
-, process of the, 231. 
-atTiflis, i. 119. 122. 
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah, i. 340. 
Battle-axe, ancient Persian, i. 664. 
Battlements of Ecbatana, ii. 98. 
Battoumi fort, i. 152. 
Baude Caucausan, a wind so called, i. 291. 297. 
Baytoush, village of, ii. 464. 
---, Courdish chief, at the, ii. 465. 
---, people of, 469. 
Bazar of Shah Abbas, ii. 38. 
-at Tiflis, i. 117,118. 
-at Kermanshah, ii. 201. 
-, the Great, at Bagdad, ii. 244. 
-Job Kiver, ii. 645. 
Bazars of Chumeen, ii. 86. 
-at Ispahan, i. 405, 406, 407. 
Beauty of Persian Princes, i. 324. 
Beckant, i. 167. 
Bed of Hercules, the hill, ii. 744. 
Beer-Junus, khaun of, ii. 290. 
Bel or Baal, the same as Nimrod, ii. 316. 
Bela-Drooz, river, ii. 236. 
Belesis, governor of Babylon, shares the Assy¬ 
rian empire with Arbaces, ii. 95. 
Belgrade, the author visits, ii. 760. 
Belino, Mr. ii. (note), 158. 246. 
-, death of, ii. 811. (Appendix.) 
Belus, Temple of, ancient account of, ii. 316. et 
seq. 
-, Temple of, situation of, ii. 383, 384, 
385. 
-See Birs Nimrood. 
Bendt of Belgrade, aqueduct, ii. 766. 
Benevolence of Jaffier Ali Khan, i. 689. 
Be-Sitoon, mountain and village, ii. 146, 147— 
163. 
of the four calendars, ii. 192. 
of Ardashir and Ormuzd, ii. 193. 
pilgrims at, ii. 147—149, 150. 
