'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.' [‎16] (49/1024)

according to the Opinion of the Anreniansy is the moft ancient City of the World-
built about three Leagues from the Mountain upon which the Ark of refted’
from whence it alfo takes its Name for Nak in the Armenian Tongue fignifies a
Ship, and Swan, rifling otrepoflng. ’Twas a great City, now wholly ruin’d by
the Army ci Snltan Amurath. There are the Remams of feveral rare Mofquee?,
which the Turks have deftroy’d*, for the and deftroy oneanothers
Mofquecs as faft as they fall into one anothers pofleflion. This City is very ancient*
and the report,that it was in this place where went to live, when
he went out of the Ark. They fay further, that he was Buried here *, and that
his Wife has a Tomb at upon the Road to 7 W;*. There runs a little
River by Nahivan, the Water whereof is very good *, ,the Spring, whereof is not
far diftant from the Head of the River of Karabagler. The Armenians drove a great
Trade in Silk formerly in this Town, which is now very much abated: however^
there is a JGo* which has the Command there. All the Country between Erivm
and Tauris was wholly deftroy’d by Sha-Abas King of T*erfla, and the firftofthat
Name* to the end that the Armies of the not meeting with any fubfiftance,
might perifh of themfelves. To.thispurpofe, he fent all the Inhabitants of Znlf*
and the Parts adjoyning into Per//4, Old and Young, Fathers, Mothers, andChil,
dren, with which he planted new Colonies in feveral parts of his Kingdome. He
fent above 27000 Families of Armenians into GMilan, whence the Silks come * and
where the harfhnefs of the Climate kill’d abundance of thofe poor people, that
were accuftom’d to a milder Air. The moft confiderable were fent xojflahm,
where the King put them upon the Trade of Silk, and lent them Commodities,
for which they paid upon the return of their Markets, which fuddenly fet the
tatnians upon their Feet again. Thefe are they that Bir t the City of Zulfa, which
is only feparated fromby the River of calling \X.New Znlfa, to
diftinguifh it from the old City, which was the Habitation of their Anceftors. A
third part of the people were difpers’d into other Villages between Ifpahan and
Sciras. But the old People dying, the young ones geRerally turn Mahumetans:
fo that now you can hardly meet with two Chriftian in all thofe fair
Plains, which their Fathers were fent to manure.
Among the Ruines of Naksivan appear the Ruines of a great Mofquec, which
Was one of tht moft ftately Buildings in the World: which fome fay was built in
memory of Ntah’s Burying-placc. As you depart out of the City, near to the River
that runs by it, appears a Tower, which is an excellent piece of Architetfttre;
It is compos’d of four 3 )«Ws joyn’d together, which fupport a kind of a Pyramid,
that feems to be fram'd of twelve little Towers * but toward the middle it changes
its Bgure, and lelfening like a Spire, ends in a Point. The Building is all of Brick,
but as well the out-fide as the in fide is over-fpread with a kind of Varnifti of Parget,
wrought into Flowers, like EmbofsM work. Ti$ thought to have been an Edifice,
fet up by Temur*leng when he had Conquer’d Perfia.
between Naksivan and Zulfa, on each fide, as well to the North as to the South,
there are ten Govents of Qht\ft\dx\ Armenians, diftant about two or three Leagues
one from the other. They acknowledge the Pope, and are govern’d by certain
Religious Dtfwwwdwj of their own Nation. And to keep up their Religion, they
fend from time to time to Rome certain Children born in the Country, to karn
the Latin and Tongues, and other neceflary Sciences. It is thought there are
in this Quarter above fix thoufand Souls that abfolutely follow the Doftrine of the
Church of Rome * only that they fing the Office and the Afafs in the Armenia
Tongue, that all the People may hear and underhand them. The Archbifhop, being
ohofen, is fent to Rome to be confirm'd. He refides at a great Town, which is one
of the moft lovely places in all Afia * the Wine and Fruits that grow there are very
delicate, befides the abundance of all other things necefiary for Humane Life. Every
Covent ftands near a great Village: the chiefeft where I have been twice, hAw
rener, the fecond Abraghonnex, the third Kerna, the fourth Soletak^, the fifth
Kouchkachen, the fixth Giaouk, the feventh Chiabonnez, the eighth Araghowk,
the ninth Kattzukj the tenth KifouJ^, which lyes upon the Frontiers of Curdifianoi
Ajfyria: Here it is, that the Armenians believe St. Bartholomew and St. Matthffl
to have been Martyr’d, of whichthey pretend to (hew fome Relicks at this day.
Many Mahometans came thither out of Devotion, cfpcciaHy fuch as are troubl a