text:  The journal of the Persian princes (a translation of which by their Syrian mehmandar Assaad Yakoob Khayat has been printed in England for private circulation) is curious as giving a picture of European ways and manners when viewed through a purely Asiatic medium; while the remarkably sensible and well-written narrative of the two Parsees who lately visited this country for the purpose of instruction in naval architecture [6] differs little from the description of the same objects which would be given by an intelligent and well-educated European if they could be presented to him in the aspect of utter novelty