'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.' [‎4] (33/1024)

The. Persian Travels Boekl.
Fi(h with the long Nofe: It isfpecki’dlike a Trout *, but of a better tail, and
more efteetn’d. Pelia ov is a City feated at the foot of fevcral Mountains
the Inhabitants whereof are for thei^oft £ar£ Thefe Mountains are very
high, and extend themfclves along the Road for Two days journey. They are fall
of feveral forts of Trees, which are ftreight and tall like Firr-Trees : £nd divided
by fo many Torrents,which it would be hard to pafs over,where it not for the Bridges
that the Grand Vifier Knprigli caus’d to be built. Irt Regard the foil of thefe Moun-
tains is very fat, there would be no drawing for the Horles after great Rains or the
melting of theSnow, hadnotthe fame Vifier caus’d all the Ways re be Pay’d and
Pitch’d, evenzskt asConftanttnopjt. A Work of greaf charge, in regard there is
not a Flint in any part of the fountain, and for that the Stone is ^fetch'd a
great way off. There are abundance of Pigeons as big as Hens, and of ah excellent
raft, which not only pleas’d our Appetites, but afforded Us very goodPaftime to
(hoot them. Between the City and the Mountain, there is a Plain about two
Leagues in length j near to which, there glides a River that waters it, and very
much contributes to its fertility. It is an excellent Soil, and produces all things
neceffary for humane Life. Upon each fide of the way I counded above Twenty
Churchyards- For it is the cuftomof the Turks to bury near the Highway, be-
lieving that the Travellers pray for the Souls of the deceas’d. Upon every Tomb
there is to be feen a Marble Pillar, half fix’d in the Earth : of which Pillars there
are fo great a number, of various Colours, that it is from thence conje&ur’d, that
there were a very great number of Chriftisn Churches in Polia^nd the parts there
abouts. They affur’d me likewife, that there was a vaft quantity of thefe Pillars
in the Villages up and down in the Mountains which the Turks every day pull down
and fet up their Tombs.
Bsndourlour is a Village in the Mountains where there is one Inn.
Gerradar is beyond the Mountains, where there are two Inns.
' has two Inns, and lyes in a good Country.
Caragaler is a Town where there are two Inns.
Cofaar is a Village with one Inn.
Tocia is a great City fituated upon rifing Hills, that joyn to very high Moun
tains. Upon the Winter Weft, there appears a fair Champain Country, water’d by
a Stream that falls into a River of a greater bignefs, call’d Gufelarmac. Upon the
higheft of the fmaller Hills toward the Eaft, there is a Fortefs, where a
refides*, and in the Town is one of the faireft Inns upon the Road. Thegreateft
part of the Inhabitants are Chriftian GV^x, who have the advantage to drink ex.
cellent Wine, with which the Country furnilhesthcm in abundance.
Jgifenfalou (lands upon a River, and there is an Inn and a fair Mofquee
in it.
O&entan is a little City feated at the fcot of a Hill, upon which there (lands a
ftrong Caftle, and below two very commodious Inns, The River (jufeUrmc,
broad and deep, wadies the South-fide of the City, which you crofs over one of
the faireft Bridges that ever was feen. It confiftsof Fifteen Arches, all of Free-
ftone, and is a work that (hews the Grandeur of the Undertaker. Somewhat at
a diftance from the Bridge (lands Six Corn-Mills all together, with little wooden
Bridges to go from one to another. This River falls into the Euxin Sea,about eight
days journey hort\Oz.eman. . e
esiziUr is a great Town, where there are two Inns.
Delekiras is a great Village, with one Inn.
Thefe Four days Journeys are very dangerous, by rcafon that the Ways arc
narrow, and commodious for Robbers. They are very numerous in this Country j
and therefore underftanding that we were way-laid, wefentand defir’d a Convoy
of the Bajha, who lent us fifty Horfemen.
Amafut is a great City, built upon an afeent in the hollow of a Mountain. It has
no profped, but only from the South over a fair Plain. The River that runs by it
comes from Tocat^ and throws it felf into the Black-Sea, iour days journey from
Arnafia. You crofs it over a wooden Bridge, fo narrow that not above three perfons
can go a-breft. To bring frefh Water to the City, they have cut a League into
Rocks as hard as Marble, which was a prodigious Labour. On the Weft-fid?, upon
a high Mountain, (lands g Fortrefs, where they can come by no other Water than