'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.' [‎250] (283/1024)

The Persia n Trav Book V
eight bunder’d paces trom rhc Mountain, in this Garden are to be (een the re
mains of a Palace of one of the ancient Kings of Perfia: yet what is frill to be fee n ,
does not declare it to have been very magniheent. The King was call’d Pad fa
quiejhel, the Scald-pated King. A thing not to be wonder’d at, in regard there are
few Vetfians but fuch as either have or have had feald heads.
Two leagues from Scbiras, to the South-weft, at the foot of the great Moun
tain, Bands a Hermitage, call’d Fir-B ohw, where three or four live, as be
ing a plcafant place •, for the Vervi* always choofe out the moll delightful places
to pitch their Tents in: where they fit fmoaking their Pipes with that gravity,
that if the King himfelHhould come by, they would not fiir to give him re
verence. That which adds to the pleafure of that Hermitage, is a fair Spring of
water that fefrelhes the Garden, and the number of fair Trees that arc about
it. \ v ‘ '■
About a quarter of a league from the City, toward the Well, istobefeena
Church-yard encompaft wifh Walls i in the middle whereof, looking toward
Mecca, (lands a Monument very much frequented by the Vervti, and other devout
people, who fay their Prayers there, it being the Sepulcher of Hougi* Hafiz,, for
whom they have a very great veneration. The year of his deceafe is fet down
upon his Tomb i being in the year 13S1 : and he purchas’d that great eltem
among the Peffiafis, for having compos d a great Book of Morality, and for that
he was alfo one ofthebeft Poets of his time. He has left one great Poem behind him
in the praife of good Wine'* which hascaus d many to aver, that Hougia-Hafiz,
was no good MflJJi&l'Wan, in regard he has fo highly prais d a thing which isfo
ttri&ly forbidd’n by the Law of Mahomet.
Nccr to the Church-yard is a fair Garden, which men go to fee for the beauty
of the Cyprcfs-trees, which are its chief ornament. They are to be admir’d for
their height and bignels, among which, there ts one that was planted by the hand
of Sba-Abbot the Great himfclf, in the year idoy s and it may well deferveto
have been planted by the hand of a Monarch *, for it was bigger then the reh that
had been planted above a hunder’d years before. 1 . .
Without the City, upon the North-fide, at the foot of the Mountain, is a Gar
den belonging to the ancient Kings of Perfia, call’d Bag-Firdous. It is full of
Fruit-trees, and Rofe-trces in abundance. At the end of the Garden, upon the
defeent of a Hill, (lands a great piece of Building, and below a large Pond af
fords it water. The rich Inhabitants ofSchiras have been formerly very curious
to have fair Gardens, and have been at great expences to that purpofe. But nei
ther ziScbirar, nor at IJpahan, is there any thing that may compare with thofc
lovely Paradifes of France and Italy.
There arc many Inns in Schiras, but the Franks generally lodg at the Convent
of the Carmelite Friars ? and they that would be more private, lodg at another Houfe
that belongs alfo to the fame Friars, which they would fain fell, as being a charge
to 5 cm at this time. '