"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎٣‎٢‎٤] (٥٦٢/٣٧٥)

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1:758. been made by nature, or perhaps by both nature and art, for fuch an
' ufe.
In fo large a city there are of courfe many Mofques--, one near the palace
is the largeit and moft modern : its top on the outfide, is- ornamented with
green tiles. At the door of the Mofgues are ufually infcriptions in ailt
letters, declaring the awfulnefs of the building, as being the houfe of God.
One of the Mofques hath a Minaret which bends as thofe at Baghdad -, Tome
of the moft bigotted of the ¥urks fay, Mahomet faluted it as he paffed, and
that the Minaret bent in. reverence to the Prophet.
This city's mannfafture is MuJJolen (a cotton cloth) which they make
very ftrong, and pretty fine, and fell for the European, as well as other mar
kets : agriculture and trade maintain the reft of the inhabitants.
We can get no other fruit here than poor water-melons and cucumbers:
The laft winter's froft killed their trees. There is not one garden on either
fide of the river, that produces any thing valuable. What lirtle fruit the
Bajha gets is fent him from Courdijlan, whofe mountains to the N. E, of
the city yet fhew their Inowy heads. 1 he bread is good here, and we
think not dear, it being about- five farthings per poundbut this may be
a very high price for a poor 'Turk. Dreadful, and even incredible are the
accounts we daily hear of the calamities of the province of Diarbekir. The
countiy, comparatively fpeaking, is now depopulated.. The inhabitants,
during the famine, ate dogs, their own dead children, and every other thing
whitii manK.ind abhor at another feafon. The bodies of the dead lay in the
ftreets for want of people to bury them. This terrible news makes us wiflv
that we may be able to avoid feeing the metropolis of that province! the
effects of this dearth reached, and in fume meafure ftill continue in, and to
the louthward of MofuL
The hire of a mule hence to Aleppo, is from 50 to 35 piaftres-, laft
year it was no more than 12 : this is one of the ill confequences of the late.
readtul famine *, almoft every fpecies of the brute creation having been,
ki ed for the fupport of man. This calamitous vifitation is faid to have
een entirely owing to a preceding hard winter, and to an innumerable
a ™7; 0f Iocufts th ^ deftroyed the fruits of the earth. The inhabitants of
ojii were fuppoled, before the famine, to have been 300,000, but, fay
l e athers, io many died or quitted the place during that time, that they
now do not amount to near that number. They reckon here are about one
thoufand Roman Chrijtians, and four thoufand Nefiorians* Jacohines and.
Maromtes \ in,the villages around are many more.
ply 4. To-day we were vifited by the chief Chrijlian of the city, whofe office is
t at o Haram hajhi^ chiei officer of the Haram, or female apartments of
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