'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.' [‎246] (279/1024)

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The P ersian Travels
Book V.
The 2Jth \ travelPd from four in the morning till ten in theafterncuTtr u
a; plain fow’d with ftore of grain, and lodg'd in an Inn call’d Mahob
gnu
The 2%tb I departed two hours after midnight, and after eight hours t -1
through a barren plain, I arriv’d at Tcfdecaf, a little City built upon a rock i^th
midft of a great Valley, and lodg’d in an Inn at the foot of the Rock. Thef ^
day in the morning I pafs’d on to a neat hcufe with fine Gardens calfd
built by Iman-KouH-Kan^ Governor of Schiras. f
The ftrft of March, I departed an hour after midnight, and a little after Icrof M
a (hort mountain, but fo rugged and fo craggie, that they have given it thenam
of Kotel-lnnel-tebekgni , that is the Mountain that breakj the Herfes [hoes Th
next day we pafs’d by a fcurvy Caftle call’d Combe[faU > then travelling throuplT
flat Country, I came by ten in the morning to Vehigkerdojiy or the Village f
Wall-nuts. I endur’d very fharp weather all the morning, for all that Count
and that which I travell’d the next day, is very cold at feme times of 7’
year. , > 1 the
The fecond day, I travel’d from midnight till ten a clock in the morning through
the Snow over a barren Plain to come to Cuztyzar, where there is a new Inn w n
built. . - 11
The third I rode a horfeback from five in .he morning till noon, firft over the
fame Plain by a Lake fide tn a very bad way cover’d with loow that hid the hnl
then paffing a tedious long and rugged mountain. I defended toa VilbeeHll.
dfipas, where there is to be feen an old ruin’d Caiile upon the point of a Hill tiT
Inhabitants were all Georgians by defent, but now turn’d all Makumetar.,
IH pmSed an<1 fi(h, ^ rC8a ’ d ° f theniany RiVOl£ ' S,bUt th£ isold^d
The fourth fetting out by day-break, I rode over a Plain, which SU Abb* the
foil gave the Georgians to till and m eleven hours I came to Ondgiom, a large VI
laee upon a River, over which there i« n 65 ° v ll ’
their Prophets that lyes buried there, and gave the Mountain its mmc befe
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craggy rocks after which I met with a fmall River, which runs to STflS
City where I lodg d m a fair Inn. J a Le
The fixth, 1 departed three hours after midnight, and travell'd through a larve
Plain encompafsd with high and rugged Mountains; upon one of which thatl
divided from the other, flood a Caftle which they fay was ruin’d bv T ,u
Great of which at prefen, there does not remain the kaft L n
crofs d the river of Maym over two (lore Bridges, and then c^me m ' 1
a place that Bands in a Plain where there is an Inn half built; fo call’d bfrfa W
a Spring of hot waters that nfes not farfrom it. In the mornir,, I nlfJ?
fair and longCaufey, call’d Pcligor, being above 5 oopaces lorl anficS
divided alfo by certain Bridges, to give the water free pafligef’by reafon the
Country is very full of merlhes. At the end of this Caufcv ftanJL r ealon.tht
enter the City, to make two obfervations, the one muchTnf'the R 6 hT '
As°,o ^ r’ th / f 0 ther “ n z Cerning ,he ruins 0f ^
SnowRfalk^whenvofct: ‘,°o r 0bfMV£ that ih time when the