'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.' [‎33] (66/1024)

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Chap. VII. of Monfieur Tavernier.
City that locks toward the Winter-Weft, near to the Sea, appear the Ruines of
a Mole, and certain ancient Magazines.,
The Engkfk Merchants have ciig’d among .the Ruines of Smyrna^ and have found
great (lore of fair Statues, which they tranfported into their own Country. There
are ftiil found fome or other every day •, but when the Tnrks find any, they disfigure
them prefently. It may beconjedur’d, that there was one of a prodigious bignefs,
by a great Toe broken off of fomc one, arid for which I paid fufficiently, out of the
defire I had to buy it. 1 fent itto Paris to a Perfori of Quality, who look'd upon
it as a great Curiofity. This Toe was of a hard white Stone, and well fhap’d,
and by the proportion whereof, the Figure could not be judg'd to be lefs than the
Coloffus of Rhodes.
Upon that fide of the City where the Mole was, ftarids an old Caftle of no defence,
at the foot whereof the Sea makes a fmall Creek, where fometimes the Galliesof
the Grand lye. .
The City is well peopl'd containing no lefs than fodrfcore and ten thoufand Souls.
There are reckon’d no lefs than 60000 Turks, 15000 Greeks, 8000 Armenians, and
about fix or feven thoufand Jews. As for the European Chriftians that Trade there^
their number is very fmall. Every one of thefe Nations has the exercife of their
Religion free to themfeives. The Turks have in Smyrna fifteen Mofqaees, the Jews
feven Synagogues, the ^Armenians but one Church, the Greeks two, and the Latinei
three. There are alfo French Jefuits, and Italian Obfervantins, or a fort of Grey
Francifcans. The Turkl, the Greeks, the Armenians, and Jews live upon the Hill;
but allthe lower part toward the Seals inhabited only by the Chriftians,
Enotijh, French, Hollanders, and Italians. The Greeks have alfo in the fame Quar
ter" an old Church, and fome few fmall Houfes, where Sea-men make merry.
All thefe different People of Europe are geherally known in Smyrna by the Name
of Franks. Every Nation has its and the French Confttl has two Fice-Cohfuls
under him *, the one at Scalanova, the other at Chio.
Scalanova, or the New Port, is two Leagues beyond Epheftu, and being a good
Haven, the Veffels were wont to unlade there *, but the Turks would not permit
it any longer. For that Place being the Dowry of the Grand Signor's Mother, the
F/Ve-Gw/a/agreed with the Governour of Scalanova, who permitted the Tranfpoi*-
tation of Goods to Smyrna, which is not above three little days journey with the
earavan : A thing that fpoii’d the Trade of the City, and injur’d the Officers of the
Cuftom-Houfe. Whereupon they Petition’d the Grand Signor that no more Goods
might be unladed at Scalanova : fo that now no more Veffels go thither, unlefs it
be to take in frefh Vi&uals.
Chio is one of the greateft Iflarids in the Archipelago, of which in another place :
but tbe Fice-Confd that lives there has no more bufinefs there than the other at
Scalanova', for the Veffels that touch there, neither unlade not export any Goods!
from thence.
The Quarter of the Franks is only a long Street, one fide whereof lyes ripon the
Sea •, and as well for the Profpeft, as for the convenience of Unlading Goods, the
Houfes upon the Sea are much dearer than thofe that lye upon the Hill.
The Soil about Smyrna is and abounds in all things neceffary for humane
fupport *, but particularly in good Oyl and good Wine. There are Salt-Pits alto half
a League from the City, toward the North. The Sea affords great ftoreof good
Fowl is very cheap *, and in a word, S»*ymus a place of great plenty. There
is a lovely Walk all along the Sea to the Salt Pits, where generally abundance of
People walk in the Summer-time to take the frefh Air : and there being more
liberty at Smyrna than in any other part of Turkic, there is no neceffity of taking
a Janifary along, when a man goes abroad. If a man loves Fowling, it is but
taking a Boat, which lands him two or three Leagues from the City, toward the
Mountains, where there is fo much Game that he can never return empty. For the
value of three Sous you may buy a red Partridge at Smyrna, and all other Fowl is
proportionably cheap. j
But if Smyrna have thefe great advantages, it has alfo its inconveniences: the
Heats are very exceffive in Summer, and indeed they would be infupportable, were
it not for the Breezes that come off the Sea: thefe Breezes rife about ten in the
Morning, and continue till the Evening *, but if they fail, ? tis very bad for the
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