'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.' [‎110] (149/1024)

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The Persian Travel?.
About a days journey beyond the Mountain you meet with a little Ciry, whofe
fituatton, the Streams that water it, the good Fruits that grow there and partj.
cularly the excellent Wine which it affords, render a moft pkdfantManfion. Xhe
Ferftans believe that Alexander when he return d from Babylon dy d in tnis pl acei
nrlipTc have writfn that he dy d at Babylon. All the reft of the Countrv
believe tnac ^ - r au
what-ever others have writt’n that he dy d at Babylon. All the reft of the Country
from this City to Bagdat is a Country of Dates, where the people live m little Hutts,
made of the Branches of Palm-trees. , u * n
From Bagdat to Anna you ride in four days, through a defert Country, though
it lye between two Rivers.
Anna is a City of an indifferent bigndfs, that belongs to an Arabian Emir. For
about half a League round about the Town, the Lands are very well manur’d,!,^
full of Gardens and Country-houfes. The City fo* its fituation refembksP«j, ;
for it is built upon both Gdes of the River Euphrates '', and in the nndll of the Rive,
is an ffland, where ftandsa fait Mofquee. ,
From Anna to Mached-raba is five days riding, and from Macbed-raba to TA,
is a kind of a Fortrefs upon the point of a Hill, at the Foot whereof
fpringsa Fountain like a large Vafe, which is very rare in the Defetts. The pke
is encompafsM with high Walls, defended by certain Towers, and m which aic
little Huits where the Inhabitants keep their Cattel, of which there is great ft*,
but more Mares and Horfes than Cows. , v , „ , r i? i ,
Ta'iba is alfo a fortified place in a level Country, or a high Bank of Earth and
Brick bak’d in the Sun. Near to the Gate a Fountain fprings out of the Earth, and
makesa kind of a Pond. This Road is molt frequented by thofe that travel throngk
the Defert from Aleppo or Vamas to Babylon, or from Vantas to Vurbtqm, bj
xeafbn of this Fountain. , , r , ,
From Taiba to Aleppo is but three days joutneyi but thefe three days ate
molt dangerous of alt & Road fot Robbers, in regard that all the Country is.*,
bited only by the Bedouins ,or Arabian Shepherds, who make it their bufineCs only
to plunder and fteal. t /
Now to take the fame Road from Aleflo tp IJj>ahan % it lyes thus i
From Aleppo to Taiba^ days
From *£aiba to Mached-raba^ days
From fAached-raba to Anna^ days
From Annaio Bagdad days
From Bagdat to Bourous^ days
FromBowrow to Charaban, days
From Cbaraban to Cafered, days
From Cafered to Conaguy, days
x From Conaguy to Cajfifcerin^ days
From Catfifcerin to another Conaguy^ days
From Conaguy to Eromabad, days
From Erounabad to Maidacht days
From Maidacht to Sabana, days
From S ah ana to Kengavar y days
From Kengavar to Naho‘uand y days
From Nahoiiand to Oranguie, days
From Orangttk to Comb a, days
From Comba to Con]ar, days
From Confar to Ijpahan^ days
So that whether you travel from Aleppo to Iflaban, or from Ifiahan to
you may eafily ride it in thirty days. ^ .. . . t two daY$
From whence Imake this Obfervation, That a man making
more from Alexandretta^ and finding a Ship ready there to fet a
with a fair Wind he may travel from Ifidban to Paris in two month?. (o
Another time, having an occafion to go from Aleppo to Ke ”? a *\th a Spmd
Bagdat *, and from thence, fo through the Defert^ it Bagdat I m qwcs
that was travelling the fame way, with whom I luckily met to beat r r
of the Guide i which as foon as we had hir’d for fixty Crowns, we fetforwara^