'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.' [‎99] (648/1024)

The Pnblijher unto the Reader.
duilion of kvetal Ruffian, Pohjh, and Lithuanian Names of Men and Countries
After the devaftation of their Countrey they would notwithftanding have foon re
covered their former Grandeur, had not divifions and inteftine Wars long kept
them low; and at length alter divers wonderful and great Revolutions given
the Ruffes lealure firft to breath, and then invite them to deprive them of the belt
part ot their Dominion. They not able to refift,being broken,as I faid,by Difeord and
Divifion into divers petty Principalities. And on the other fide the Crim Tartar
alliftcd by the 7 W<,, fubdued the remainder, whereby that Tribe Which before
was comparatively inconfiderable, became Supreme, and is at this day a terror mr
to all the North-Eaft Countries of Chriftendom. To fhew in what manner and
by what degrees all this was tranfaffed, is rather matter of a juft Hiftory than of
a Prelace the deatnm whereof I have already tranfgrefled, in making a Porch almoft
as large as the main Building, to which itlhould ferve only for an Entrance.
I ihall therefore conclude with fome fliort and flight Remarks on diver Paffages hi
our Authois R.claiion. His 3 ,ccounc of the of the £##/«£ Sea , 3 (leaving out
wnat he allows for the Teine Sea, or Pains Mxtti ) differs little in number of Miles from
that of Jman 3 though they difagree fomewhat in particular diftances; and is wonder
fully confonant to that calculation of Eratofthones^ Hecatzus^ Ptolomy^ and Ammianws
MarcbdlinuS) who reckon it to amount unto 23000 Stadia, or 287? Miles which
wamsbuc 15 of our Travellers Compittation. ° 3
He is alfo more particular, and /believe, more exacf than any I have hitherto met
With, in his Ddcripcion of Crim or T’durka Cherfonefus ptthofe length and breadth he gives
us in feveral places dire£tly,or by confequence* What he tells us concernining Arbot-
{a and the great Field without it, fourrounded by the Sea he calls The Ratten Sea, is
[carcely mentioned by any Modern Geographer,but wonderfully confon^nt to what
is delivered by Strabo. Arbotha ieems to be Taphre, the Ratten Sea, he calls aa^etv
or L ^ s Eutris , and affirms to be part of the Palos Mtotis : in compafs 4000
furlongs, with divers ocher particulars, confirming our Travellers Difcourfe, as may
be read at large in his fevench Book. And I find in a Difcourfe publifhed by Mr.
TWm concerning the Tartars, written lately by a Religious Miflionary who long
rehded in thofe parts, a Defcription of this place very futable unto our Author. His
Words are thefe, fpeaking of the moft remarkable places in Crm. Arbotec e/f m Cha
peau dvec tine tour Jcituee fur la col (Tunc Peninfule que e{l enfermee entre Id Mer de Limen
^ Tineka Woda, cette gorge ria plus d’m quart de heue, elle eft traverfee d’une
PaUiJdde qui s ende d Une Aler a l autre i la Peninfule eft appellee par nos Colaques
Cola, a caufe q elle a la forme d’mefaulx, deft on ce lieu du le Chan tient fon Paras qui eft
bten de feptante mille Chevaux. Et il eft un deflroit entre la terre ferme e Cofa 200 pas de
large (jui e(l gay able quand il eft calme ) k Cqffaques le pajfent quand Ur vont derober le Che
vaux de haras de Cham,
What our Author tells us of the Communication between the Tanais and Volga at
Zmujsbanbg, is particularly deferibed by Olearius, who wrote many years after him;
who aifo agrees with us in his account of the Rivers of Cmajfta, and Coun
ty * only our Writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. is more pun&tial in his Defcription of their Sourfes and Courfe,
and mentions two or three omitted by Olearius, or unknow to him. A frequent
jnention v; made by Procopious, Jgathias, and others of the Bizantine Hiftorians, of that
nut paffage between Georgia and Anadouk, or as they word it, between Cokhis and
djm Minor, or Armenia,
Our Author haying given an account of the Courfe of the Volga, and of the moff
e markable places lying upon, or near it; at laft affures us, That it emptiesit felf in-
"* ea only by 22 Mouths, whofe names he there rehearfes: whereas
ner Writers aferibe unto it 70 Entrances, though as Olearius judicidufly obferves,
or them a re rather paflages made by the Sea between Iflands and broken Ground,
lan P^pcr dihindt A^rms or Branches of the forementioned Rivers.
r , Wha c r 15 concerning the Coffacks retiring unto, and neffing in an Zfland of the
is confirmed by a late French Writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , who long refided in Perfta, He
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