'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎122] (143/448)

faarovm.
Terjia.
fome Brooks indeed we paft over, fo fmall-that they had no Name; but Rivers no Man
calls them, fince none of them in breadth or depth exceed three foof, Rivolets worth
little more than the noting.
Weft of Larr is a Town called Jaarom (Gaarom fome write it) about twenty farfangs
(which is fixty English miles ) from Lar. ' Moft of the Inhabitans are Jews , by fome re
puted little lefs than a thoufand: much lefs than what Ben Jonas numbred in the Year
1 106. for at his being in Jaaria (which is prefumed to be this place) it had then twenty
five thoufand Jem inhabitants. Some make this their road from Larr to Shyraz. v but
the way we took was more to the Eaft, and more frequented, being neither fo hilly as
the other, nor fo ftony. Concerning the Name whence it is derived, I fuppofe it is ei
ther for that thefe are the / defcendants of that Kiriath-jearim we find mentioned in the
1 Chro'n. 2. 50. or from that in Judea called Kiriath-jaarim, i. e. plenty of wood which
grew there, as we find mentioned in 1 Sam. 7. 1. which probably the tranfplanted Jem
might commemorate. And this conjedure is further ftrengthened, by the analogy of
the name Gaaron with the Hebrew words Geron and Garimy which fignifies Strangers, or
fuch as are tranfplanted i|*o a ftrange Countrey : fo as the Name fitly agrees with'the
condition of the inhabitants. Alfo when out of thefe Captives Cyrm gave leave for the
re-edifying tlie Temple, we findin£^r. 2. 7. and Nehem. 7. 12. that from Elam and
Kiriath-jaarim feveral of the Jews returned, where in the 24 verfe, the other Elam is
recorded: or elfe from Jare or Jaarah, Joktans fourth fon Gen. 10. 26. whofe Brethren
Ophir and Havilah travelling from Babel to plant about Ganges-, 'tis likely left him by the
way to increafe their Coufin Elams plantation. But feeing thefe are the off-fpring of
thofe the Affyrian Prince Salmanaffar (called Enemejfar in Tobit 1. 2.) forced out of Sa
maria as we find recorded in 2 Kings 17. 6. A, M. 3220. the Name from them has the
more probability: for in Scripture we read that he placed them in Halah and Ghabor,
(Mons Chaboras inter Mediam & Ajfyriam, Ptol. 6.1. uj Median Cities near unto the Ri
ver GGz.an: The finding of this River hath been not a little controverted, and the
queft continues yet obfeure; For fome would have it to be a River in Baftria not far from
Oxns, and to have the like vent into the Cajpian which being fo remote from Media,
cannot be approved of. Others place it near Araxis, which has the greater femblance of
truthj Araxis teaming through that part of the Medes Countrey which about Alexan
der's time was new-named Atropatia, other fome 'twixt the Mountain Chabor and the
Cajpian Sea,, emptying it felf into the River Cyrm, which difcharges it felf into the G?-
fpian. Notwithftanding which Ben Jonas in his Itinerary finds Go^an hereabouts, and
reports that it empties its frefh ftreams into the Perfian Gulph. Yet to clofe with the
Jew in this hvS'Cabala is not fafe i feeing he finds not onely infinite numbers of Jews all
along from hence to Nifibor ( or rather Nifyore, i. e. Bacchi CivitasJ in Sogdiana, (which
Ftolomy places in Aria under 35 degrees 20 minutes) but feveral Gorans alfo ; which
brings it under fuch confufion as none indeed can well tell where to find it. And con
cerning that Gozania, I find it in Ptolomy's Tables to be in 40 degrees 40 minutes, and by
being in Media it hath affinity with the Name, but in the Map not being taken notice of
cannot tell where properly to place it. Moreover, albeit the way thefe banifhed Tribes
took from their own into the Median Territories was in probability the ufual or neareft
way,which was to pafs betwixt Babylon and Nineveh yet their progrefs is fo myfterioufly
deferibed in the Apocrypha 1 Ejdr. 13.40. that fome think they went through Baimerina
in Syria and the South part of Armenia the Great into the Berfian Dominions: For fpeak-
ing of the Tranfmigration of thofe Tribes from Ijrael; Thefe are the ten Tribes (faith he)
which were carried captives by Salmanafler in the time of King Hofea beyond the River Eu
phrates i who refolving amongfl themfelves to leave the multitude of the Heathen and to fe-
quefler themfelves into a Countrey where never mankind dwelt, they entred in at the narrow paf-
j'ages of Arfareth, the Springs being by miracle dryed up untill they had paffed over, and after
a year and a halfs journey from Arfareth they fat down, where they inhabited untill the later
times. By which relation (notwithftanding Paulus Venem and others find this Arfaret in
the moft Eafterly part of Scythia extra Imaum) albeit fome think they palfed through the
Arabian deferts to Babylon ; others rieverthelefs fuppofe that their way was through that'
part of Syria called Paimerina regio into Armenia, 'twixt thofe parts where Euphrates and
Tigris have their Springs, and fo through the Iberian ftraits called Port* Caucafia ftrook
into Mowndram, and thence into BaUria. But that BaBria was the Countrey they refted
in cannot be imagined, feeing that was not remote enough for eighteen months travel
hom Ararat, if we ihould grant that they were in motion, and Ararat ftridly to be in
Armenia, being indeed not above 2 months journey thence*, but more efpecially feeing
that IMtria was fo far from being uninhabited as the place fiiould be they defigned to
with-