'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.' [‎28] (61/1024)

‘the Persian
travels
Book I.
verted into Mofquees • and if you will believe the Armenians, they will tell you
that there were in Sultanie near eight hundred Churches and Chapels.
three Leagues from Sisltanie (lands an Inn, and a. League farther a great Town
call’d Jja , where there is another very commodious Inn, and mod excellent
Wine. / '
From thence you go to Habrtr, an ancient City and oi a lar^>e extent* but very
much ruin’d, inhabited by Armenians for the mod part: Here, for the good Wines
fake the Travellers day to recruit their Bottles.
From Habar, after feven hours travel you come to a Village call’d Vanin. Front
Zan7an to Partin you reach in two days. It dands in a fertil Plain, where there
are feverd other Villages. It is not above three Leagues broad, being enclos’d on
each fide, to the EadandWed, with a row of high Mountains.
Having pafs’d this Plain, you come to a barren Country and ill inhabited, which
lads all the day, till you come to Saxava. You pafs by the Ruinesof a Village,
where there are but two Houfes danding , with the Tower of a Mefqnee, which
is very high and (lender. Then you come to a Mud-wall’d-Inn, built fome few
years fince ^ and near to that a Cadle call’d Khiara, upon the peek of a Hill, but
very ill built. , . / . .
Sexava is a little City in a Soil that bears excellent Nuts. The Inns that are
there being built of Earth, and being but little, are very handfomand covenient,
their number fupplying the defedl ol their fmalnefs.
From Sexava, after feven hours travel, you come to a great Inn, call’d Ugibu^,
which was formerly a nobler place than now it is, danding alone in a Field. Three
Leagues from thence you meet with another fpacious Inn, call’d Cochkeria-, and
four hours farther you come to the Inn Denghe, where the two Roads meet which
I fpake of in the foregoing Chapter.
From itenghe to Kom are three days journey, over a barren, dry, and defert
Country, where there is no Water but Cidern-water, except in fome very few
places, where it is v6ry good. Four Leagues from Denghe is a fair Inn ; and three
Leagues farther Hands another, about a Mile from a Village to the South, where
there grows excellent good Wine, white and red. From this lad Inn to is not
above three hours travel with the Caravan.
Sava is a good City in a fertil Plain, where there are feveral Villages. The
greated Trade of the Town is in little grey Lamb-skins, the curl whereof is very
neat, of which they make Furrs. Two or three Leagues beyond Sava the Country
is very well manur’d, and after you have forded a River half a League from the
City, after two hours travel you come to one of the faired Inns in all which
was finifli’d when I went lad to Jftahan. From thence to Kom it is about feven or
eight hours journey, through a dry and fandy Road: but half a League on this
fide Kom the Land is very good and fruitful.
Kom is one of the great Cities of Terfia, in a fat Country abounding in Rice.
There grow alfo excellent Fruits, particularly large and excellent Granates. The
Walls are only of earth, with little Towers clofe one to another} and the Houfes
being only of Earth, are never the handfomer withinTide. At the entry into the
Town, youmuderofs a River, over a done Bridge, and then turning to the right
hand over a fair Key, you come to an Inn very well built and very convenient.
That which is mod remarkable in Kom is a large Mofqnee, no lefs in veneration a-
mong the Perfians, than the Mofquee of Ardeiiil. There it is that you may fee the Se
pulchers of Sha-Sefi and Sha-Abas the Second; as alfo the Tomb of Sidi-Fatima, the
Daughter of Iman-Hocen, who was the Son of Hdy and Fatima-Zuhra the Daughter
of Mahomet. The great Gate of the Mofquee anfwers to a Viaz.z.a more long than
broad, where dands an Inn and certain Shops, which without-fide arefomewhat
beautiful. One of the fides of the Piazza is clos’d up with a tow Wail, over
which appears the Shore,and a River which you crofs at the end of the ‘Piaz.&a-Ovex
the great Portal of the Mofqaee (ta.nds an Infcription, in Letters of Gold, in the
praife of Sha-Abas the Second. The fird place that you enter into is a Court ot
more length than breadth, which may be term’d a Garden, in regard that on each
fide of the Alley in the middle, which is pav’d, there arefeveral fquare Beds oi
Flowers, yellow Jafmin, and other Plantsy which are rail’d in by a Rail that runs al
the length of the Alley on each fide. It is not an eafie thing for the Chridians to