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FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 39 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856) , Scottish traveller and author, was born at Reelick in the county of Inverness on the 11th of June 1783. He was the eldest of the four sons of

Edward

EDWARD

Satchell Fraser of Reelick, all of whom found their way to the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

, and gave proof of their ability. In early life he went to the Wiest Indies and thence to India. In 1815 he made a tour of exploration in the Himalayas, accompanied by his brother William (d. 1835). When Reza Kuli Mirza and Nejeff Kuli Mirza, the exiled Persian princes, visited England, he was appointed to look after them during their stay, and on their return he accompanied them as far as

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

. He was afterwards sent to Persia on a diplomatic mission by Lord Glenelg, and effected a most remarkable journey on horseback through

Asia

ASIA

Minor

Teheran

TEHERAN
TEHERAN (more properly TEHRAN)

. His health, however, was impaired by the exposure. In 1823 he married a daughter of Alexander Fraser

Tytler

TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792)

, Lord Woodhouselee, a sister of the historian Patrick Fraser

Tytler

TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792)

. He died at Reelick in January 1856. Fraser is said to have displayed

great

GREAT

skill in water-colours, and several of his drawings have been engraved; and the astronomical observations which he took during some of his journeys did considerable service to the cartography of

Asia

ASIA

. The works by which ha attained his literary reputation were accounts of his travels and fictitious tales illustrative of Eastern life. In both he employed a vigorous and impassioned style, which was on the whole wonderfully effective in spite of

minor

faults in

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

and flaws in structure.
Fraser's earliest writings are: Journal of a Tour through Part of the Himdi Mountains and to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges (1820); A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the Years 1821 and 1822, including some Account of the Countries to the North-

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

of Persia (1825) ; and Travels and Adventures in the Persian Provinces on the Southern Banks of the Caspian Sea (1826). His romances include The Kuzzilbash, a Tale of Khorasan (1828), and its sequel, The Persian Adventurer (1830) ; Allee Neemroo (1842) ; and The Dark Falcon (1844). He also wrote An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia (1834) ; A Winter's Journey (Tatar) from

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Teheran

TEHERAN
TEHERAN (more properly TEHRAN)

(1838); Travels in Koordistan,

Mesopotamia

MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

, &c. (1840);

Mesopotamia

MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

and Assyria (1842); and Military Memoirs of Col. James Skinner (1851).

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