'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.' [‎23] (56/1024)

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the ancient'Kings of the Medcs y the Remains whereof fhew that the Work was
very Excellent. • J i ^,1 g
Upon the Road from Taurls to Ifyahan, about half a Leagoe from the mmoit
Gardens, between .fevcral knaps of the Mottntain ,which t ,you ^icaye upon, th,e
rjoht hand! upon the top of the higheft of all, where there never wa^ ahjjMter,
and wheie >c is impofiible to bring any, appears a Bridge : Fi% the
Arches whereof are very fair ones, but it falls to decay. It was a Moll ah that built
if out of what ddign no perfon new : nor can you come to Taurps upon th^t fide,
but you muTieeThat Bridge, becaufe therein ho other ^ay^tfi'er^ feeing nothing
but Water and Precipices on either hand. AfterwardOie co r n^rTdThat h^b^’lc
it out of racer Vanity, knowirigthat the firft of Biat ha me,"was to cclhe
to Tanris. The King indeed ;came Pome tirae after, and feeing an unprofitable
Bridge upon the top of a Mountain, he demah^d who built it, and what was his
delign. To whom the Mofllih return’d this^ipver, Sir, faid he, I built that
Bridge, that when your Majefiy Rime ^bu might inform your fell frotri
the mouth of him that built ff. Ty' which it appear’d Aat the MofahhM nootfier
ambition than to oblige the King tblpeak td fum.^ nudMaini^ ■
A League from to the ih theim'iddle of a field,'(lands a great Brick
Tower, call’d 'Ra&atml It is;about jfifty Paces in Diameter,and though it be half
ruin’d, yet it is very high. It fejins to have been the Dungebn of f©me Caftle,
there being very high Walls rourid |bout it \ which though they be but of Earthy
neverthelefs appear to be very ancient. It is not certainly known who built thrs
Tower, but the Arabian' Letters upon the Gate afford us lome reafon to conclude
that it was a Mahometan flrudlure. In the year 1651 there happen’d a terrible
Earthquake in 7 mrii and the parts thereabouts, by which many houfes were over
turn’d, and this Tower then cleaving from the top to the bottom, a good part of
it fell down, and filPd up the hollow withinTide.*
Befides the little River that runs by Tanris, there is another bigger to be crofs’d
about half a League from the *C ity, over which there is a very fair Stone-Bridge:
Near to it Hands a Sepulcher, cover’d with a little where the lay
that the Sifter of Iman Rina lyes interr’d *, and they have it in great veneration.The
River that runs under the Bridge comes from the Mountains of the North,and falls
into the Lake Roami, thirteen or fourteen Leagues from TWiR'They tall it <Aggi-
jfbu, or Bitter-water • for the Water is very bad, and without any Firti. The Lake
which is fifteen Leagues in compafs, has the fame quality,the Water being blackifh:
the Fifti that happen into it out of other Rivers that fall into it, prefently become
blind, and in a (hort while are found dead by the Shoar. This Lake takes its name
from a Province and a little City,which areboth call’d p€ww/,beir*gnot above Elevefr
Leagues from
In the middle of the Lake, upon the way that leads to a little City call’d Toko-
riant, there is a little Hill that rifes infenfibly, the afeent whereof is very fraooth,
and out of it there rife many little Springs. The farther they run from the Head,
the wider grow the Streams. And the Earth which they water is of two diftinft
qualities:, the firft Earth that is digg’d lerves to make: Lime: the next to that isa
hollow fpungy Stone, th%is good for nothing: but under that again is a white
tfanfparent Stone,which you may fee through as through Glaff,which being fmooth
and polifh’d Terves to adorn the Houles. This ftoneis only a congelation of the
Waters of thefe Streams*, for fom^times you (hall meet with creeping Animals
congeal’d within. The Governour < f the Province Lent one piece to Sha*Abbas,as a
great prefent, wherein there was a Lizard congeal’d of a Foot long. He that pre-
lented it to the Governour had Twenty Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , or three hundred CroWns} after
wards I offer’d a thoufand for the fame Piece. In fome parts of the Province'of
Ma^andtan,where the Snxjn Sea ftretches fartheft into the Ptfry^wTerritories,thefe
congeal’d Stones are to be found,hut not fo frequently as near the lake Roumi • and
you (hall many times find pieces of Wood and Worms congeal’d in the Stones.
I brought away a Cameh loading of thefe Stbnesj and'left them at Marfeilla ; till
I could find what ufe to put them tfo.