'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.' [‎140] (811/1024)

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A Voyage to Kachemire,
viz, that of the Sea, and that of the Air which maketh the Mowifbn^wind, as he caufeth
twooppofiteotic's, when he returns towards the other Pole.
Upon |his ground, me things;' it might be fa id, that there are no other but two main
oppotite Fluxes of the Sea, one from the fide of the Pole Ar&iqw, the other from that
of the Autartique y that if there were a Sea from one Pole to the other, that paffed
through pur Etirope, we ijSuld fee, that thefe two Currents would there be regular
every where, as they ire' imtlie Indies, and' that that which hinders this regularity of
the Flux from being genefalj, is, that the Steis are' intercepted by Lands, which impede,
break, arid vary their Courfe V in like manner as fome fay, that the Ordinary Flux and
Reflux of the Sea is hindtpdfn thofe 'Seas that lye in length, as the Mediterranean doth
from EalVto Well. And fo : like wife might it befaid upon the fame Foundation, that
there are biit tWri pHncip^opprifite Winds 'of Fluxes of tlib Air, and that they would
be univerfaily regular, if the Earth were peffedly fmooth arid equal!, and otic part like
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another'every where, .
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nom ov;
Jji : jhtfmr to the fourthOtkftion yCohitrnins the fertility. Riches mi
that that advantage HelFflgS rather to it, than to Egypt. It bears Rice in that abuti-
dahee, tha-t, itribf orily furrillhelsIts Neighbours, but many vdjry remote parts. 5 Tis cai-
ried up Ibip RJrver GJn^to fatna’s 'afitf } tis franfported By Sea to Mappiitan, and tb
many dtHers ^It^-Cbail 1 df; Coriffyandd. Be fid es,, his fent awa^ into forrain
Kingdoms,, .and principally into Cejlan and t\\z Maldives. Further, it alfo abounds
in Sugar, fo that it furnifhes With it the Kingdoms of Golkpnda and Karnates, where
*1, ; stkrvt rifp thprifn « 7 irK i’f
rily rifaltd dritf of thbfgbig' Pome-Citrons, as we have in Europe v and a certain Root,
Ann .\j>. tfir! eL-i.e&z.'ii* z'az* ^ an( j- 0 f that common Fruit of the
Mirobolans, which are excellent V as
^Tis, true,that the Count ry oVBengale yields riot fo much Corn as Egypt i but if that be
a defect, it is to be imputed to its Inhabitants that eat very little Bread, and much more
Rice than the Egyptians: t Yet it alwayes bears what is ftifb'cient for the Country, aid
to afford, .e^cellprit BifcUitV; very cheap, for the provifion of our European Ships, Engy
HJR, Dutch, arid Tdrtuguefe. You may there have almoft.for nothing thofe three or four
kinds of Legumes, which together with Price and Butter are the moft ufual food of the
meaner people ri Arid for z Houpy, which is about half a Crown, you may have twenty
good Paints and’ more j'Geefe and Dqbks, in proportion. There are alfo kids ami
Sheep in aburidance, andfach flore of Pork, that the Fortuguefes, fetled there andac-
cufioWed'rio' the Country, five aimoft oh nothing elfe but that ^ and the Englijh^
P/ftc//vidlual their Ships vvith it. There is alfo plenty of many forts of Fiih, both
frefh and fait: And, in a word, ris a Country abounding in all things'> and ns
tor this Very ieaf6nVfHat 1 fb : ' Many Pdrtuguefes^ Meftickj, and other ChriilianS are fled
thitheV frbm thofe epuatters, which the Dutch have taken from them. For, the jefrits
znd Auguftmans, thathaVe great Churches' there, wherein they exercife their Religion
‘ ■with-ail freedom, did afftirc me, that in Ogouli alone there were no lefs than eight or
nine thoufand Souls^of Chriftians» and ( which 1 will ealily believe J that in the sch or
that Kingdom there were above tvventy rive thoufands. And his this affluence of all
• thofe thing^ neceffiry for life, joyned to the Beauty and good Humour of the Women
• native?,' that;hath occaridh’ed this Frotierb amongfl the Portuguefes, Engli/b, and Holan-
ders, biz That there are' an hundred open Gates to enter into the Kingdom of w
gale, and not one to come away again.
As'to the Commodities of great value; arid which dra w the Commerce of Strangers
thither , I know riot, whether there be a' Country in the World, that affords more aiv
greater variety: For, be tides'the Sugar I have fpokeri of, which may be numbred among ^