'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.' [‎121] (160/1024)

Chap. VUI. of Monfieur Tavernier. *
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M/h affords nothing but Millitones to grind Wheat, which arecarry’d to
tinople* /
pjros where there is no Trade neither, has nothing remarkable in it but one Greek
Church, very well built all of Marble, call’d Our Lady's Church.
As for the Iflands of Sifante and Miconoa, in regard there is nothing of Trade in
either but only with the Pirates, whofometimes touch there, if there be any Cart
fuls that live there, it is only to buy thdr hol’n Goods.
Of the Citj of Athens^ Corinth, Patras, Coron, WModon.
T H E City of Athens is about four miks diflant from the Sea, and contains
iwoand twenty choufand Inhabitants, twenty fivethoufand Greekj ifiveorfix
thoufand Latins^nd a thoufand Turks. Among all the Antiquities that yet remain
thofe in the Cafile are the beft preferv’d. The Caftle ftands upon a Hill, upon the
North defeent whereof fome part of the City (lands. It enclofes a very fairand
fpacious Temple, built all of white Marble from the top to the bottom, fupported
by (lately Pillars of black Marble and Porphiry. In the front are great Figures of
Armed Knights ready to encounter one another. Round about the Temple, except
upon the Roof, which is all of flat Marble Stones well order’d, are to be feen all the
famous Adh of the Greeks in fmall carving, every Figure being about two foot and a
half high. Round about the Temple runs a fair Gallery, where four perfons may
walk a-bred. It is fupported byfixteen Pillars of white Marble upon each of the
tides, and by fix at each end, being alfo pav’d and cover’d with the fame Stone.
Clofe to the Temple (lands a fair Palace of white Marble, which now falls to decay!
Below the Cafile, and at the point of the City toward the Eaft, (land (eventeen
Pillars, the remainder of three hundred, where anciently, they fay, flood the
Palace of Tlnfm firft King of the Athenians. Thefe Pillars are of a prodigious
bignefs, every one eighteen foot about. They are proportionable in height, but
not all of a piece, being thwarted moft of them by Stones of vyhite Marble, one
end whereof reds upon one Pillar, and the other upon that which follows it *
which was the fupport of the whole building. Upon the Gate, which Is yet entire*
are to be feen thefe words upon the front without.
A'/St A<drt'ccf Qjjrfcos 7i 'mg/.v nihis*
The Chy of Athens nas affuredly the City o/Thefeus.
Within*fide of the fame City thefe other words are Engyav’d.
A/& A^Yivetf ^ Qyiotcas 'ttdAis.
The City of Athens is the City o/Adrian, and notof The-
ieus. ■
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There are in Athens frveral other pieces of Antiquity which are well worthy to
be feen. ,
Corinth, which formerly madefuch anoife in the world, is now a Village of (bme
five or fix and twenty houfes, but all of them the Habitations of rich Greek/* The
Town lies at the foot of the Cadle, which is feated upon an inacceflible Rock
guarded by the Greeks^ commanded by an Aga. Corinth Exports great quantities
of Currants.
Patm does the fame, which is all the Trade of thofe two places.
Coromnd Modon drive a Trade in Sallet-Oyl, which is (b good and fo plentiful,
that fiveral EngliiK Dutch* and other Ships are load’n away with it from thence
every year.
There are Cartfuls in Athens^ Patras, Coron, Modon, and Napoli of Roma-