'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎177] (206/594)

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die. To which I willingly agreed, and made 'em large
promifes befides. Which put 'em into a good humour to
go on.
The 51 ft we fet forward; though it Were bad Weather,
and very bad Way. Neverthelefs we crofs'd three very broad
and rapid Rivers, and at length arriv'd at Where We
lay at the Houfe of Bifliop Janarel ; who was not at home,
however we were well entercain'd. For his Officers Were ac
quainted with Fryer Jngelo, and knew that their Matter had a
great kindnefs for him.
Cotatis is a Town built at the Foot of a Hill, by the fide of
the River shafts,confifting of about 200 Houfes. Thofe
of the Grandees, and the King's Palace ftand at a diftance
round about. The Town has neither Fortifications nor Walls,
faving where it is enclos'd by the River and the Mountain.
On the other fide of the River Over againfl: the Town , upon
the top of a Hill higher then that under which the Town is
built, ftands the Fortreis of Cotat of which I have Ipok'n
in my Relations of the laft Revolutions in Imiretta. did not
go into it, but I law it plainly from the oppofite Hill. It has
feveral Towers, a Dungeon, and a double Wall that appears
very high and ftrong.
When I came to Cotatis, I enquired what News. And the
trueft that I met with, and which every one aflur'd us, was.
That the new Prince of Mingrelia, and the Prince of
were retir'd, finding that the Tur would keep the Field no
longer ; that the greateft part of the Gentry, who had giv'n
their Oaths, had forlak'n em, and that the of Dadian
was preparing to fall down from the Mountains with an Army.
That as foon as the Vizier had intelligence of the Retreat of
the two Princes and the Turks-t he had fent 800 Men to Da*
dian, had writ to him to quit the Fortreis, and to raife what
Men he could, that he had proclaim'd a free Pardon to all thofe
that would come and )oyn with him ; laftly,thathe was come
to Cotatis, where the King of Imiretta had joyn'd him, with
the Nobility of his Country; and that they were march'd to'
gether in a Body, with a refolution to fall into the Territories
of the Prince of Guriel. Which was that, they all moft ear-
neftly defir'd, for that he had been the Occafion of the Incur-
fion of the Turks, and of all the Ipoil that had been commit
ted during the War. For this realbn the Armies had crols'd
the Fhafts Three Days before, fo that the opportunity fa-
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