'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.' [‎38] (71/1024)

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winds and turns t*ne moft of any Rivfir in the World. And inde^wTarTth
more to feek, in regard the TWi?* change the ancient Names according to their ov? 2
euftom and pleaiuve, and give no other Names to Rivers than that of the princi !
City through which they pafs; or eife deriving their Names from the Colour!
their Sands, There is to be teen in that City an ancient Caftle of Free-ft 0 nc ud°
the Point of a high Rock, feparated from the Mountains that are next it towd
the South, which make a Semicircle. All the Armenian Chriftians, Subjefts to th
King of palling thorough Aphiom Car afar muft there pay Carr age, from which '
they are not exempted, though they have paid it before at Erzerom or elfewher
The Caravan does not flop at Aphiom far afar, as well for that there arc no Inns bT
what are ruin’d, as for that about a League farther there is a place where you ha-
excellent Fifb, and very cheap, and they of the City bring Barley, Straw, and
other things which the Caravan wants. The Caravan thcxcioxo. that day lodgesmjn
the Banks of Maunder, which is to becrofs’d over a Bridge not far diftant from a
fmail Village. In this River are great ftore of Crawfifh and Carps *, and the Fifter
tnen will be lure to attend upon the Caravan, I have ieen fome Carps there above
three Foot long.
The fifteenth our Caravan began to part it felf, fome for Tocat, fqme for the Rond
to Aleppo the one part taking the right* hand Road toward the Winter-Eaft for
y the other the left-hand Road North-Eaft, for 5
After we were parted, we travel’d two or three hours in fight t>f one another
They that go to Aleppo, fall into Tarfus, where St. Paul was born, and from Tarjtu
io AUxandretta, But we continu’d our Road to Tocat, and after we had crol's’d
a great Plain, having travd’d fix hours, we lodg’d in a Merfhy place near a final
Village. There is one thing remarkable in this Road as in many others whiefi
manifefts the Charity of the For in moft of the high Roads, that are far
from Rivers, they have fet up Cifterns, whither when the Rains fail, the neigh,
bouring Villages bring Water for the Travellers, who would eife be very tiia'ch
diftrefs’d.
The fixteenth wetravel’d eight hours through a yery even Country, butfilW
nur'd,,; where we faw a little City call’d BoaUmndi, There are fome Mofutii?
which the 7 *^ have built out of the Ruints of the ancient Greeks Churches, front..
whichthey have taken Pillars of Marble, and other pieces of Architedure, to addin
their Sepulchers without any order at all, which you meet with very often upon the
high Roads •, the number is the greater,. becaufe they never lay two Bodies in one
Grave. There is alfo in this City an Inn , cover’d with Lead, which is all the
Beauty of it; nor do Travell ers make any ufe of it but only in foul weather. We
lodg’d a League and a half from the City, and Raid there all the next day.
* i^he feventeenth we travel’d eleven hours through a mix’d and uneven Country,
and came to lodge in a Village where there are-not above three or four Houles,'
though there be excellent Pafturage about it. there is no Water, but what is
drawn out of three deep WeUs , for which reafon the place is call’d Eache dmn-gitti
The -eighteenth we travefd not above five hours through defert Countries, and
took up our Stage in a kind of a Bog, near a pitiful Village.
The nineteenth, after we had traveled eight hours through fpacious defert Plains,
we pafs’d througha large Village, the Inhabitants whereof were gpne with their
Cattel into ,the Mountains, for the cool Air, during the Summer time, according
tocuftom. There is an indifferent handfom Mofueeoi Free-ilone } andindeedthe
Village^ the Name whereof the People told me was ffiaciclou, has been much biggtf
than now it is, as may appear by the Ruines. In two hours after we came to lodge
beyond it in a Meadow, near a Rivulet. ’
The twentieth we crofs’d over defert Plains, but which feem’d to have been for
merly well manur’d v and after ten hours travel, we Hop’d in a Bottom near a bad
Water. ; . • . T, , -^ /.
The.twenty-firft, for ten hours the Country was all barren and defert, and we
came to lodge ai the end of a long Plain, near two Wells, the Water whereof was
good for nothing.
The twervty-fecond we travel’d through the forc-mention’d Plain, and met with;
Imle Valleys where there was very good Pafturage' The Caravan Hop'd near toa
pitiful Village, and a nafty Well. ^