[142] The weather does not appear so hot as in former seasons.
[143] I have not remarked such a haze in former times. I have scarcely seen the mountains of Persia since the latter end of May.
[144] I have seen it one or two days before in this month, but I do not recollect to have seen it during the winter, or when the atmosphere is very clear.
[145] Bushire; grapes good and plentiful; musk and watermelons, and figs.
Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors and inconsistencies have been silently corrected.
Diffenrences in spelling between index and body have been made consistent as has hyphenation, but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unchanged.
A number of items in the index are out of order, and some are not present in the text. This has not been changed.
Plate X. in the list of plates has been changed from Sculpture at Shapour to Rock at Shapour to correspond with the image.