AND ASIA MINOR, TO CONSTANTINOPLE, IN THE YEARS 1808 AND 1809***


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    [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.

Imperfect as my journal may be, it will, I hope, be found sufficiently
comprehensive to serve as a link in the chain of information on Persia,
until something more satisfactory shall be produced; and it claims no
other merit than that of having been written on the very spots, and
under the immediate circumstances, which I have attempted to describe.
Having confined myself, with very few exceptions, to the relation of
what I saw and heard, it will be found unadulterated by partiality to
any particular system, and unbiassed by the writings and dissertations
of other men. Written in the midst of a thousand cares, it claims every
species of indulgence.

The time of my absence from England comprehends a space of little more
than two years.--On the 27th of Oct. 1807, I sailed from Portsmouth
with Sir HARFORD JONES, Bart. K. C. His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia, in H. M. S.
_Sapphire_, Captain GEORGE DAVIES: after having touched at Madeira
and at the Cape of Good Hope, we reached Bombay on the 26th of April,
1808: owing to some political arrangements we did not quit Bombay
till the 12th September. We arrived at _Bushire_ on the 13th October,
and proceeded towards the Persian capital on the 13th December. H.
M. Mission reached _Teheran_ on the 14th February, 1809: on the 12th
March the preliminary treaty was signed between Sir HARFORD JONES and
the Persian Plenipotentiaries; and on the 7th May I quitted _Teheran_
with MIRZA ABUL HASSAN, the King of Persia’s Envoy Extraordinary to the
Court of London, with whom I reached _Smyrna_ on the 7th September, and
embarked there on board H. M. S. _Success_, Captain AYSCOUGH. Having
at Malta changed the _Success_ for H. M. S. _Formidable_, we finally
reached Plymouth on the 25th November, 1809.

I should be wanting in gratitude, if I did not here express the
ob