'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.' [‎56] (91/1024)

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the top of the Mountain.you meet with an Inn ; but though it be very f d i r
with Fountains round about it, yet Merchants never flop there, but goon aI°M 5
farther to a Grecian that ipeaks good Lalian, and whole entertainment is indiffe ^
good, confidering the Country. When you go away, you give him a Crown for v,?!
accommodation, which is the manner at other Stages, by a cuitom, which the Fr<n
themfelves having eilabliih’d,. will never be left off. ^
pefeending down the Mountain you difeoyer the City of Antioch^ built n
a Hill. Formerly the Road lay through that City, but the Janizaries 0 f ?
place exafting a Fiafter from every perfon thattravd’d that way, that Road is n C
difus’d. Antioch once made more noife in the World, being faFn to ruine C vc
fmee the Chanel, that ran from the ( i ty to the Sea, where Galleys might rick
hss been dop’d up by the Sands that have encroach’d upon the Mouth of tb
Haven. e
When you are at the bottom of the Hill toward the North, you difeover aCaftle
builtupon a Hill ftanding by itfdf, from whence you have a profpeSl over a good
part of the Plait* ef Antioch. It is about fifteen Leagues long, and three broad in
that part where the Road lyes. Somewhat move than half the way, you meet
with a long Caufey parted by feveral Bridges, by reafon of certain Rivulets that
crofs it, without which the Road were hardly pafiable. The frequent Revolts of
Bagdat and Balfara, which the Grand Signor has been forc’d fo often to befiege
caus’d the Grand f^ifier in the Reign of Achmat to undertake this Caufey, which
together with the Bridge was finifh’d in fix Months, that was looktupon asaMiia-
cle. This was done for the more eafie paffage of the Artillery, and other Provifions
of War, that veere brought out of Romania and Cmc? to the Siege of Bagdat,
which could never have been done, but for this Caufey. At the end of this Caufey
Rands a Bridge, very long and ftrongly built, under which runs a River, which,
with the other Rivulets that wind about the Plain, forms a Lake toward the South
that is call'd the Lake of Antioch. This Lake affords a great Revenue, byreafon
of the Eds that are caught there, which "are taken two Months before Lent, and
tranfpprted to Malta Sicily^ and other parts, of Italy:
This Plain is very full of Olive-Trees*, which produces that great Trade of Soap,
that is made at Aleppo, and tranfporied into Mejopotamia , Chaldea, Perfia, and
the Defert; that Commodity being on£ of the moft acceptable Prefents that can be
made to the Arabians. Sallet Oyl is alfo in great efteem among them: fo that
when you make them a Prefent of it, they will take off their Bonnets, and rub their
Heads, their Faces, and their Beards with it, lifting up their Eyes to Heaven, and
cry in their Language, God be thank’d. Therein they have lo!l nothing of the
ancient cuftom of the Eafiern People, of which there is often mention made in Holy
Scripture.
About a League and a half beyond the Plain, you meet with a Rock, at the foot
whereof is a little deep Lake, wherein they catch a world of Fifh thatarelikeouf
Barbels. 1 have kill’d them with my Piftol; and found them to be of an excellent
taiV, though they are not regarded at Aleppo.
Two hours after you ford a River which is call’d Afrora ; though if it have hap
pen’d to rain, you mull {lay ’till the Waters are fai’n. Having pad the River,
upon the Banks whereof you (lay to feed your feif and your Horfes, you come
to lye at a poor Village call’d Shacjuemin, where there is an Inn. Here the Country-
people bring Provifiohsof Food to the Travellers; and whether you eat or no, you
mufl pay a Pi after, according to the cufbom which the Franks haveeftablifh’d. After
you have pafs’d the Plain of Antioch as far as Shaqttemin , the Horfes in Summer are
fo ternbly tormented with a fort of great Flies, that it were impofiible to travel
three or four hours together , were it not for going out of the Road, either to
the right, or to the left, and riding through the Fields, which are full of thofe
Burrs that our Clothworkers make ufe of: For. in regard they grow as high astbe
Crupper of the Horfe, they keep the Flies off from flinging and tyring the HodS.
Leaving the Village of Shaquemin, the Road lyes among Stones \ and for half
this tedious way* for two or three Leagues round about, you fee nothing bat d#
Ruihes of ancient Monafterics. There are fome of them which are built almoftall
of Free ftone *, and about Haifa days journey toward the North, quite out of tfie
Road, Hands the Monaftery orSt, the with the remainder of hisle
famous