'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.' [‎128] (799/1024)

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A Voyage to Kachemire,
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Kaebemire 'i but how they will prove, that Salomon made this Voyage, I know
not ‘ r , . . tK . oecnUa, that ’tis full of little Ifles, which are as many Gar-
The h P ’ H gteen in t he midft of the Water, by reafon of thofe
fruk bearing Trees, and o!Pthe Walks, on bothTides fet with Arbors, and becaufe they
fruit bear g > i ar » e -leaved Afpen-trees, Handing at two foot diftance from one
anothe" 7 the biggeft whereof may beclafped about, but as tall as Mafts of great Ships,
having 1 only a tuft of Branches at the top like Palm-trees,
Beyond the Lake, upon the fideof the Hills there is nothing but Houfes and Gardens
of pleafure, the place having been found wonderfully proper for it,asbe.ng in a very
fine Air, in the view of -the Lake, the Ifles, and the Town, and full of Sprtngs and
R Themoft admirable of all thefe Gardens is that of the King which is called CU-
limar. From the Lake, one enters into it by a great Canal, border d with great green
Turfs This Canal is above five hundred common paces long, and runs twixttwo
large Alices of Poplars: It leadeth to a great Cabinet in the midft of the Garden,where
begins another Canal far more magnificent,which runs with a little “fing unto the end of
the GardemThis Canalis paved with large Free-Stone s its flopmg fide cover d with the
fames and in the midft of it, there is a long Row of Jets of Water, from : 5 to .5
foot. There are alfo, from fpace to fpace, great Rounds of Water fcrving for Store-
houfes, whence many Jets of Water, varioufly figured, do fpnng up . And this Canal
tnds at another Ptcat Cabinet, wbicb is almoft like the niit» ^
Thefe Cabinets, which are in a manner made like Power, feituate in the middle of
the Canal, and encompaffed with Water, and confequently between thofe two great
Alices of Poplars, have a Gallery that reigneth round about, and four Gdtes oppofite
to one another; two of which do refpeft the Alices, with two Bridges o pals over
one on one fide, and the other on the other s the othef two look upon the oppofi e
Canals. Each Cabinet confifts of a great Chamber m the midfi ot four other Met
Chambers,which are in the four Corners: All is painted and guilded within, the great
Chamber as well as the little ones, having Sentences with great Letters in the Per/im
Tongue written upon them. The four Gates are very rich, t eyarema eo grea
Stones with two Columns, taken from thofe ancient Idol-Temples, rumdby CW-
Jeban. The price of thefe great Slopes and Pillars is not well known, nor what kind
of Stone they be ; though it appears fufliciently, that tis a fort ofprecious Stone, finer
than Marble or Pofphyrc. r .
From all that hath been faid, one may eafily conjedture, that I am fomewhat
charmed with Kackmirc, and that I pretend, there is perhaps nothing m the
world like it for fo fmall a Kingdom. It deletves very well to reign over al
thofe neighbouring Mountains as lar as Tartary , and over all Indian , as tar as
Ceilon , as once it did: And ’tis not without feme caufe, that the ^
call it the Terrefirial Farad# of the Indies •, that Fctyar took fo much pains to make
himfelf Maher of it i and that his Son Jeban-Gttire became fo amorous th f reo ^ th
he could not leave it > and often faid, he would rather lefe all his Empire, ian
mire. And from the time that we arrived there, all the Poets, both Kacfjem f m h
Mogolians, ft rove to make Poems to the praifeof this little Kingdom, to preen
to Aureng-Zebe, who gladly received and rewarded them. 1 remem er, * ^tam g
others, there was one, that exaggerating the extraordinary height or the , ou ” r
encompaflmg it, and rendring it almoft inacceffible any where,
thefe Mountains was the caufe, that the Heavens did retire into the figure o a »
as we fee it? and that Kacbemire being the Mafter-piece of Nature, and t e in q
the Kingdoms of the W6rld, it was futable it fliould be hard of zccds, and to enjoy
an undifturbed peace and tranquility, commanding all? and not beinglia e
manded by any. He added, that the reafon why Nature had furrounded it with Moun
tains, of which fome, namely thehigheft and moft remote, were alwaies white an
covered with Snow, the lowermoft and the next to the Plain, all green an
with Wood, was, becaufe that the King of the Kingdoms of the World was o
themoft precious Crown, the top whereof was to be of Diamonds, and the bo
Emeraulds. If the Poet had added ( faid I to my Navab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Vanechrmnd-lyn > wh
willing to make me admire all thofe Poems ) that all thofe great Countries o
tains that environ it, as the little Tifor, the State of the Raja King Gatnon, aogtt