PREFACE
In laying before the world the present account of a journey through Mesopotamia, I feel a stronger assurance of its beeing acceptable to the generality of reader, than I could venture to indulge on either of two former occasions on which I had to present to the public eye the result of my researches and observations in other countries of the East...
J.S.Buckingham
Tavistock Square, February 5, 1827 | 
