Personal narrative of a journey from India to England, : by Bussorah, Bagdad, the ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the court of Persia, the western shore of the Caspian sea, Astrakhan, Nishney,[sic] Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh

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