Produced by Free Elf, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: 1) Mousul/Mosul, piastre/piaster, Shiraz/Sheeraz, Itch-Meeazin/Ech-Miazin/Etchmiazin, each used on numerous occasions; 2) Arnaouts/Arnaoots, Dr. Beagrie/Dr. Beagry, Beirout/Bayrout/Beyraut(x2), Saltett/Sallett, Shanakirke/Shammakirke, Trebizond/Trebisand - once each. All left as in original text. 3) M^R = a superscripted "R". * * * * * JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AT BAGDAD, &c, &c. LONDON: DENNETT, PRINTER, LEATHER LANE. JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE AT BAGDAD, DURING THE YEARS 1830 AND 1831, BY M^R. ANTHONY N. GROVES, MISSIONARY. LONDON: JAMES NISBET, BERNERS STREET. M DCCC XXXII. * * * * * INTRODUCTION. This little work needs nothing from us to recommend it to attention. In its incidents it presents more that is keenly interesting, both to the natural and to the spiritual feelings, than it would have been easy to combine in the boldest fiction. And then it is not fiction. The manner in which the story is told leaves realities unencumbered, to produce their own impression. It might gratify the imagination, and even aid in enlarging our practical views, to consider such scenes as possible, and to fancy in what spirit a Christian might meet them; but it extends our experience, and invigorates our faith, to know that, having actually taken place, it is thus that they have been met.