'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.' [‎155] (196/1024)

Chap. VI. of Monfieur Tavernier.
CHAP. VI.
Of Zulpta, a little Cit)-, feparated Ifpahan bythe-River
Senderou.
E Vlpha^ which others call Jalpha and Giolpha, is diftant from IJpahan to
ward the South halt an hours walk, the River running almoft at
an equal diltance between the two Cities. The way that leads from one
City to another is a Walk fome fifteen hundred Paces long, andfcventeen
broad, almoft equally divided by the River. It begins from a Pavilion or Tabernacle
forty Foot fquare, which joyns to the hinder part of the Kings Houfe, with a
double Story, to which feveral Windows give light, clos’d with wooden Lattices
very ardhcially wrought. None but the King and his Houfhold pafs that way into
the Walk. For they that go horn Ifpahan to Zulpha, find the way into the Walk
through a Gate which is clofe adjoyning to the Tabernacle. This Walk is call’d
the Street otTcharbag, or the Street of Four Gardens,
A Channel runs all along the Walk from the Tabernacle, where a little Rivulet
falls into it, and fills it as far as the great Bridge. The two (ides of the Channel
which are piv’d with Stone, and are two or threeFootbroad, makes pne way which
Paffengers may, and many times do take j for the ufual way both for Horfe and Foot,
lyes upon each tide of the Walk, behind the Trees, Which are panted in a (freight
line to the very Walls of the King’s Gardens, which clofe the Alley on each 'tide.
It is a kind of a Caufey of Free-ltone, fomewhat rais’d, and four or five Foot broad.
There is but one row of Trees on each fide, ftraight and high, call’d Tcbinards,
with one tuft at the top. The fpacs between the Channel and the Trees is not
pav’d, but lyes common, and is fometimes fow’d. About two hundred Paces from
theTabernacleor Banqueting houfe, the River falls into a great Pool, about thirty
or thirty-five Foot in diameter •, and in that place, as alfo in others fomewhat beyond
it, where there are alfo other Pools, the Walk is crofs’d by a Caufey pav’d and rais’d,
fen or twelve Foot broad, as the reft are. Upon the left hand of the firft Pool ftands
another Tabernacle or Banqueting-houfe, much alike in ftmdure andbignefs to the
former*, in which place, in a low arch’d Room with a Fountain of Water in the
middle, you may go and drink Coffee. From that houfe to the Bridge the Walk
defcends, and the Water makes fome falls.
All the Gardens on each hde of the Walk, both on this fide and beyond theBridge
belong to the King. But you muft not imagin that thefe Gardens, or that of
Hezardgerib, which is the faireft of all Perfia, are fo curioufly fet out, nor fo well
kept as oats in Europe. For they have no fuch lovely Borders, nor fuch clofe Walks
ot Honeyfuckles and Jafrnin as are to be feen in the Gardens of Europe. They
fuffer the Gralsto grow in many places i contented only with a good many great
Fruit-trees, tufted a-top,^ and planted in a line, which is all the grace of the Gardens
of Perfia.
In each fide of the Walls between which the Walk runs, at a true diftance of
fpace, are gates neatly contriv’d, and over each a little Room. Almoft in the middle
of the Walk between the great Banqueting-houfe and the Bridge, upon the left
hand, ftands a Houie of the Dervis, to whom the King has given one of his Gardens
to build upon. There they keep the Relicks of Haly, or fome other Prophet *, for
you (hail fee them ftanding under a certain Arch, before which the Perfians make
a moft profound Reverence. Thefe Dervis corns every Afternoon about three or
four a Clock into the Bazars of Ifyahan, every two, an old one and a young one,
choofing hts quarter, f hey go from Shop to Shop, inftru&ing the People upon fome
Point or other of the Law : the young Dervis anfwering the old ones at certain
tirnes.^ Their Habit is only two Sheep skins or Goat-skins, the one hanging before,
the orner behind, with a great leathern Girdle, four or five fingers broad, garnifh’d
with feveral great Plates of Fatten. They throw another Sheep-skin crofs their
houicers, which they tye before,under their Chins.Upon their Heads they only wear
a little Lamb-skin in form of a Bonnet, letting the feet hang down to their Necks,
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