'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎6] (17/1024)

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parts of his body, in feveral Streets of the City, and boy ling Lead
pour'd into the raw wounds; after which he was broken alive upon
the wheel, at the publick place of Execution.
Being upon my departure from Rathbone, I met with Father Jofeph y
Refident there for the King ofwho knowing me in Fans, pro
pos’d to me to go along with the Monfieur, the Abbot oi Chapes, Bro
ther of the Marlhal de Aumont, and Monfieur St. Lielau, who w ere
then intending for Conftantinopk, and fo for Falelline. I lik’d the propo-
fition well, and immediately put my felf into the Society of thole two
Gentlemen, from whom I never feparated ’till they departed for Syria
from Conftantinople,
But before we left Germany , w 7 e refolv’d to fee the Court of Savcny y
whither we got in a few days, x By the way we pafs’d through Frey*
lergh) a fmall City, but well worth feeing, for the beauty of the
Eledors Tombs, and mo ft fplendid and magnificent both for Materials
and Workmanfhip in all Europe, From thence we went and view’d
the ftately Caftie of Auguftburgh, feated upon a high Mountain, where
in among other things there is a great Hail, adorn’d from top to bot
tom with nothing but Horns fatten’d to the Wall; among the reft is
the Head of a Hare with two Horns, fent the Ele&or by the King of
Denmark for a great Rarity. In one of the Courts of the Palace Hands
a Tree fo large in Body, and fpreading out the Branches at fo wide a
diftance, that they will cover three hundred fixty five Tables with
their ihade. And that which makes this Tree more wonderfull is, that
it is only/Birch, that rarely grows to that Immenfity*
Drefcfe \s the Refidence of the Ele&or, a little City, but a very neat
one, and well fortify’d ; with a Stone a Bridge over the Elbe y that parts
the Old and New Town. The Palace is one of the largeft and faireft
in Germany, But it wants a Vtazza before it, the Principal Gate ftan*
ding juft at the bottom of a narrow Lane.
From Drefde we went to Prague f which was a third time that I faw
that great and fair City, or rather three Cities together, only fapara-
ted by the Moldajfm throws it felf into the Elbefomz five or fix Leagues
below. . '
Having travers’d Bohemia and touch’d upon the corner of Moravia,
we enter’d Auftria, and came to Vienna, refolving there to Embark
with all fpeed, becaufe the Winter came on.
* We flay’d one day at Preslurgh to fee the great Church, and
fome Relicks which they ftiew’d us, and from thence fell down to
Altenburgh, ^ t < .
9 Altenhurgh is a City and Province belonging to the Count of
Arach, It was the Childs part of one of the Queens of Hungary,
who upon her death-bed bequeathed it to one of the Lords of her
Court, upon condition that he and his Succeffors fhould always keep
hch a number of Peacocks ; for defeft whereof, the Territory fhould
. rmrt to the Crown*
: mce we came to Signet, from whence I took a little Boat and
haftu to Raal, where I did my Devoirs to the Viceroy, who was glad
to fee me, and gave noble entertainment to the Mejfieurs de Chapes, and
de St. Liebau, Here we ftaid eight or ten days for the Bajha of Budds
Anfwer, whether he would give liberty to two French Gentlemen, to
pals with their Train through his Garrifon or no; which being return d