Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51819-h.htm or 51819-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51819/51819-h/51819-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51819/51819-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/gri_journeythrou00more Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: Bar^t). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: Mess^{rs}). [Illustration: _SKETCH OF THE COUNTRIES_ _Situated between SHIRAZ and CONSTANTINOPLE; Shewing the ROUTE of HIS_ MAJESTY’S _MISSION under Sir_ Harford Jones _Bar^t. in_ 1809, _from_ Bushire _to_ Teheran; _and of_ M^r. Morier _from thence to_ Constantinople. _As also the_ Route _of_ Col. Malcolm, _in_ 1801. _By_ J. Rennell. _Published 20 May 1811 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row._] A JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA, ARMENIA, AND ASIA MINOR, TO CONSTANTINOPLE, IN THE YEARS 1808 AND 1809; IN WHICH IS INCLUDED, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF HIS MAJESTY’S MISSION, UNDER SIR HARFORD JONES, BART. K. C. _TO THE COURT OF THE KING OF PERSIA_. BY JAMES MORIER, ESQ. HIS MAJESTY’S SECRETARY OF EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF PERSIA. WITH TWENTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS FROM THE DESIGNS OF THE AUTHOR; A PLATE OF INSCRIPTIONS; AND THREE MAPS; _ONE FROM THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN JAMES SUTHERLAND: AND TWO DRAWN BY MR. MORIER, AND MAJOR RENNELL_. _LONDON_: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1812. PREFACE. Finding, on my arrival in England, that curiosity was quite alive to every thing connected with Persia, I was induced to publish the Memoranda which I had already made on that country; more immediately as I found that I had been fortunate enough to ascertain some facts, which had escaped the research of other travellers. In this, I allude more particularly to the sculptures and ruins of _Shapour_; for although my account of them is on a very reduced scale, yet I hope that I have said enough to direct the attention of abler persons than myself to the investigation of a new and curious subject.