'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.' [‎157] (198/1024)

Chap. VI. of Monfieur Tavernier. 157
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ThciC are alfo three other Bridges upon the River, one above the Bridge of
Zulfa, and two below. The hrh but meanly built, but very commodious for the
Armnms^ when they travel Well ward, who would elfe be forc’d to go a great
way about, through the whole City of JJpahan.
The tirll of the other two Bridges below the Bridge of Zulfa, was built by Sba-
Abas the fecond, Father of the prefent King. It is almoft equal to it in Stru&ure*
but it has one particular beauty, which is a hexagonal place in the middle of the
Bridge, which caufes the Water to fall in that part with a pleating noife. For that
being the deeped part of the River, Sha-Abas refolv’d to build a Bridge there ';,
partly for the Gaurs lake, to the end, they might not come through the walk of
fchar bag, and that going from Ifpaban they might have a (horter cut home. The
Habitation ot the Gaurs is only a large Village, the fird Houfes whereof are but a
little way from the Rivers though the walk that goes foom Ifpaban to the KingsBridge
is both longer and broader than that of Tcbarbag, planted on both (ides with a row of
Trees, but no Channel in the middle.
Before each of the Avenues to the Bridge, Bands a Houfe that belongs to the
King for his divertilement. That upon the left fide of the River toward Ifpaban
was by the great Sha* Abas giv’nto the Capuchins, For as Boon as they came to Jfpa->
ban, up on dieir Examination, the King wasextreamly tak’n with their behaviour.
He ask’d them how they liv’d, and whether they took any money ? To which the
Capuchins making anfwer, that they never handled any money, but contented them- ^
felves with Alms s the King believing his Subjedfs, would give them very little, \
bellow’d that Houfe and Garden upon them. But they day’d not long there, be-
caufe it was too big for them to repair, and too far from the City, fo that the Roman-
Catholic^ in the Winter could not get to their Chappel. Now they have built them-
felvesa very handfom Houfe not far from the King’s Palace, at the Cod of Father
Jofepb, one of their own order.
There is another old Bridge a quarter of a League below the Gaurs Bridge,
which is upon the Road from Ifpaban to Sckiras.
But to return to the long-walk of Tcbarbag, which continues above eight hun
dred paces beyond the Bridge of Zulfa to the Garden of Hezardgerib. The Rivu
let that pafles that other part of the walk, comes from the fame River which they
have cut three or four Leagues above Ifpaban. When you have walk’d about four
hundred paces, you met with a fall of Waters that tumbles into a Poid, from
whence there are twelve heps to afeend to the end of the Alley. The walk is
fronted by the great Houfe which hands before the Garden of Hezardgerib, or
the tboufand Acres. The Houfe conlids but only of one great Hall over the Gate,
and four fmall Chambers at the fourxorners of it.
Hczirdgerib is the faireft Garden in Afia, though it would be acounted no
thing in Europe. H awever as it lies upon the defeent of a Hill, it confifts of lixteen
Teraffes, fultain’d by a Wall fix teen or feventeen foot high. There is but little
Water in any of the Wells j but that which has mod is in the fourth Terrafs. That
is a great Octagonal Pool about a hundred and twenty foot in Diameter, round
about which are feveral Pipes that throw up the Water about three foot high, and
there are three deps down to the Water. A Channel pav’d with Stone runs through
the principal Alley, which goes no farther than the building. This Channel is as
wide as that of the Channel of Tcbarbag, whence it is fupply’d as being right oppo-
fite to it. In the tenth Terrafs you meet with another Fountain of the fame bignefs
and form with that in the fourth i and in the lad which terminates the Grand Alley
and the length of the Garden, there is another Channel which erodes all the Alleys
which, like the great one cotnpofe the leng'h of the Alley. Befides this, there
are op’a Room? to take the frelh Air, feme falls and murmurs of Water, but for
tnrders and clofe Alleys, and Arbours, you mud expedfc no fueh thing, either in
Hez trdgerib, nor in any other part of Perfta.
Having walk’d in the great walk o£ Tcbarbag, you meet upon the right hand
with a Street between two Walls of the Gardens that belong to the King, which
Street leads you to not above two or three Mufquet Shots didance
off. /
ZuJfa a Colony of Armenians which Sha-Abas brought from Zulfa, a City of
Armenia, is lo much encreas’d for fome years dnee, that it may now pafs for a