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flows, under the name of the Mand or Muiul, or Kakee Uivor, into
the Klior Ziaret, in Dashti, may now he confidently asserted. It li;uj
;is laid down, on the Ilaji's map, a course of at least 300 miles, and no
doubt, if followed up from mouth to source, the distance would be
fnuiul much greater. The source of this considerable river is near
Kodiyan, north-west of Shiraz. My personal acquaintance with it
consists in having, in common with all travellers of the Ihishire-Shiraz
road, crossed it at Khan-i-Zinyan; and again I crossed it at Kewar
where it is known as the Kewar River. 1 also explored the crock of
Khor Ziaret, where it debouches for twelve miles. Of other Europeau
travellers, the same river was crossed by M. Uivadcneyra in 1S73 at
Taduan, and previously by Keith Abbott, still further south, in the Kir
District. Thence its career has been matter of conjecture, and it is
only by the liaji's map that the gap is filled. The accompanying
sketch of the river and its afllucnts is from that source.

In 1S7-I-75 Scnor Rivadeneyra, a Spanish officer, with the rank
of Consul in Persia, made an extensive tour in Persia. Starting from
Teheran, he traversed Western Persia, through Luristan and Khuzistau
to Muhnmmerah; he then proceeded through Bushire to Shiraz, and
thenee to Firozabad, Darab, Kerman, and Yezd. This gentleman is
now preparing an account of his oljsorvatious for publication iu Spanish
at Madrid.
Lieutenant-Colonel Maogrcgor, about the same time, made a
private tour iu the cast of Persia and collected further information
for bis valuable Gazetleer. The same year Mr. Mackenzie of the firm
of Messrs. Cray, Paul N: Co., explored the Ispahan-Sinister route, and
wrote an useful account of it. Another enterprising English officer,
Mr. Ernest Floyer, of the Persian Gulf Telegraph Department, started
from Jask, and j^dietrated through the unexplored region of Bashakird
to Kerman, whence he proceeded to Ispahan and Eagbdad. This
gentleman is also preparing an account of his travels and surveys.
Some four years ago a gentleman of German nationality, Dr.
F. C. Andreas, uuder the patronage of the Prussian Government and
the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, undertook to conduct an
Archajologic-Kpi^raphic exploration in Persia, and has been siucc at
work in the province of Fars. The main original object of this expe­
dition is understood to have been the search for, and copying of,
inscriptions in the ancient Pahlavi characters, but the researches of
Dr. Andreas and his associate Dr. Stolzc have extended to a wide range
of subjects, and they are understood to have amassed a great deal of
interesting information connected with the archaxdogy, geography,
philology, zoology, ethnography, history, and statistics of Fars. fho
discoveries of these savants will be illustrated by a series of typical
photographic portraits of s{>eciincns of each tribe, which it is though
will prove a valuable contribution to scientific ethnography. A vast
number of ancient bricks with cuneiform inscriptions were exca vated
by l>r. Andreas from a mound near Eusliirc, but the Persian Govern­
ment have refused permission for the removal of the collection Jwlt]
Persia. I may mention that I recently presented a few bricks, foun