INDEX. 
Be-Sitoon, rocky, platform of, ii. 151. 
— -, Greek inscriptions at, ii. 151. 
— -, ancient sculpture at, ii. 144. 155,156. 
— -, the author leaves, ii. 162,163. 
Bessarabba, Constantine, the voivode, or supreme 
prince, ii. 780. 
--, deposition of, ii. 795, 796. 
-- } he and his family executed, ii.797. 
Beyuk-chek-maza, hillage of, ii. 769. 
Beyukderry, the village of, near Constantinople, 
ii. 742, 743. 
Bible, Persian translation of the, i. 687. 
Bibliomancy, Persian, i. 382. 
Bilbos, mountain of, ii. 461, 462. 
Bilbossi, Coin-dish tribe, the, ii. 469, 470. 
Bilious complaints, cure for, ii. 603, 604. 
Binaub, town of, ii. 498. 528. 
Bin-guiel, (a thousand springs) one of the western 
heads of the Euphrates, ii. 660, 661. 
Birs Nimrood, the Tower of Babel, now so called, 
ii. 305. 
— --, canals near, ii. 308. 
--, present shape and dimensions of, 
ii. 310. 
-—-, description of the fragments of, 
ii. 311, 312. etseq. 
- ---, singular excavation in, ii. 344. 
---—--, of the use of bitumen in the build¬ 
ing of, ii. 315. 
--«-, the remains of the Temple of 
Belus, ii. 316, 317. 
---, confusion at the building of, 
ii. 317- 
--———-, Herodotus’s account of, ii. 319, 
326. 
----, Strabo, on, ii. 320. 
——-—, extent of the base of, ii. 320,321. 
---, height of, ii. 322. 
•-•, description of the tower itself, 
ii. 323. 
--, Egyptian spoils brought to, ii. 
324. 
-—--, mounds round its base, ii. 325. 
339. 
----—-, ruins in its neighbourhood, ii. 
327. 
——-—-, composition of the bricks, ii. 329. 
— ---, etymology of the word, ii. 330. 
--, precise situation of, ii. 382, 383. 
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Birs Nimrood, the author’s second visit to, ii. 
387. 
— ---, lines on, ii. 387. 
--, the author is driven from, by 
Arab banditti, ii. 390. 
Bitumen, on its use in the building of the Tower 
of Babel, ii. 315. 
--—- pits, near the town of Hit or Heet, ii. 
361. 
--, how qualified for use as a cement, ii. 
441, 442. 
— ---. See Naphtha and Kirkook. 
Black Sea, worm of the, i. 12. 
Blacksmith of Kasibeck, i. 81. 
Boar Hunt, bas-relief of the, at Tackt-i-Bostan, 
ii. 175. 
Body-guard, ancient Persian, i. 601, 602. 626. 
Boli, vale of, ii. 724-—-726. 
Boli-chai, river and town of, ii. 725. 
— -, the town of, occupies the site of 
Hadrianopolis, ii. 725, 726. 
--, forests of, ii. 727. 
Bonda Khan of Soak Boulak, ii. 485, 586. 
-his independent loyalty, ii. 487. 
Borosippa, the site, ii. 287. 
Borysthenes, the ancient, now the Dnieper, i. 16. 
Bosmeech, i. 255. 
Bosphorus, the, ii. 741. et seq. 
Bostangees, a corps of gardeners at Constanti¬ 
nople, ii. 758. 
Boug, River, i. 5. 
Bouillon, Geoffrey, Vale of, ii. 743. 
Boucharest, city of, ii. 779, 780. et seq. 
--, trade and population of, ii. 790. 
Bourka of the Cossacks of Zergifskoy, i 44. 
Boursa Shishara, the, ii. 286, 287. 
Bowmen, bas-reliefs at Persepolis, i. 595. 
Brazen Pillar at Constantinople, ii. 753, 754. 
Bricks, &c. ii. 354. 361. 366. 393. 
•-, inscriptions on the, ii. 394. 
-, Babylonian, ii. 311. 313. 329. 
Bridge over the Aras at Eski-Julfa, ii. 610, 611. 
-of the Bambek, i. 161. 
-- of Be-sitoon, ii. 146. 
--of the Chummin, ii. 431. 
— -of Delli Abbas, ii. 429. 
-across the Dnieper, i. 4. 
— --of Kara-sou, ii. 199. 
-—— of wicker, at Mahott, ii. 460, 461. 
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