'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.' [‎101] (650/1024)

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A Short Defcription of all the Kingdoms which En-
compals the Enxine and Seas.
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Right Honourable and my mofl Worthy LorJ^
Bing given to underftand, That I have been represented unto your Lordflnp:
by fevcral who bear me no good wil], as a Perfon pofMed with that Vani
ty, which ordinatly prevails among Travellers, of affirming I was well ac
quainted with divers Countreys and Languages^ whereuntol am utterly a
Granger : And perceiving that none of my Difcourfes have more expofed me unto
this Cenfure, than a petended monflrotis rafli AfTertion (but indeed a real Truth )
That I knew and had vifited all the Countreys furrounding the Black^and Cafpian Seas r
I thought my lelf necefladly obliged in order unto my Vindication,to draw up a fhorc
Account of all thofe Countreys, which do incompals the formentioned Seas, moil of
which Places I have perfonally lur veyed,and fear not any Kepreh a nfion or Confutati
on,being refolved to declare nothing but what I faw,or received from fuch who were
belt able m give me full and faithful Information. Andl am well allured. That the
more fttift and judicious Enquiry is made into this my Report, the more favour and
credit I lhall gain with your Lordlhip, and all other confidering impartial perfons*
I lhall foil begin with the as being that wherewith I was firft acquainted*
and near unto this moft Famous City of Confiantinople^ where your Lordlhip may
ealily learn, whether I am guilty of either fallhood or miftake; and if I am found
upon due Enquiry to declare any manifelt Untruth, I deferve not only uoparalleld
Reproaches, but the moft fevejre and exemplary Punilhments which I Ihould juftly
merit, when owing life and liberty unto your Lordlhips Bounty and Compaflion, I
Ihould inhead of a grateful Acknowledgment, prefent your Honour with a heap of
impudent Falftties.
I will begin my Relation or Peregrination, from that fide of the BM^Sea on which
Condantinople is fituated, and round the faid Sea, until I return to Scodra, which is in
dfia oppofite thereunto.
The fir ft Province is RomcUa ; the fecond Wallakia 5 the third Ackpemen 5 the fourth
Crim-j the fifth the great Defert of Ingul and Vnguk^ which is between Cnm and Af-
Ihowa 5 the fixth is the Little Nagoya the feventh CircaJJia ; the eighth Abajjd • the
ninth is Mingrellia ; then Georgia $ and laftly Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. . All which Countrcys are fub-
jeered unto theX^k; bclides the great Defart, the Little Nagoy and CircaJJia.
I lhall now mention the moft noted Places which I know from Fennara, which is
about the entrance into the Black^Sca., unto the River of the Vanaw, fo to the Neiftr.e,
bom thence unto the Nepper, fo round about Criw, unto the Gulf that goeth from the
6/^Sea into the Teine Sea, and thence unto Afjhowa.
As I laid, near the Entrance into the Blacky Sea is Fennara^ then Innatada, Miffetvra^
Baljhic^ Man galley^ Conflancba, Karabarman* Keelley* Ackremen. Ofjhacfowa* Upon
the mouth of the River of the Nepper.
Now I Ihall declare the Diftances of thefe Places from each other 5 the number of
being the fpace betwixt what forgoes and immediately enfues. From Finnara
mat ad a 80 miles; to MiJJewra 90; to Wama 100; to Baljhick^ id; to Mangalley
4 °; to C 'nftancha 40; to Carabarman 40; to Kelley 80; to Ackremen or Bealloborda
00 3 to Ojjhah^wa^ 8o, in all 666 miles; and from Offhakowa^ which is in the mouth
r o 2; of