'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎297] (344/562)

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livelihood under the patronage of Mr. Shaw, and other European gentlemen '758.
and they all give him a good charaaer. Mr. flsmst thinks he will aet the "—
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better or his fever. 0
I paid the blfliop a vifit in company with Meflieurs Garden and Doidre. June n.
He ihewed us a very large and valuable Ruby, Tome antique Onyx ftones,
very curioufly cut, and fome more medals. He has two colledlions of
Roman coins; one of them is compleat, (which he does not intend to
part with) in a regular fucceffion from Julius Cafar down to Corfan-
tine. The other fet (which has a chafm of leven Emperors) his lordOiip
propofes to fell *, and imagines that it may be worth. 50 ,000 Piafires.
He has alio fome medals of private Roman families, and a great number of
the Kings of Syria, Parthia, and Perfia. Of the laft he has many dupli*
cates in gold, filver, and copper.
Yefterday returned a Patamar or exprefs to our Jew merchant from Monday
Aleppo, by the way of the Befert, which he had difpatched from this place J une
about a month or five weeks ago. He was robbed three times by the Arabs,
but knowing fome of the tribe, he had the good fortune to preferve the
letter he had in charge. The Jew merchant, with 4 or 500 of his brethren,
as alfo many Mahometans, are gone to pay their annual devotion to the tomb
of Ezekiel the prophet, which by their account is at Kuta a village on the
weftern bank ot the Euphrates, eight or nine miles above Hilla: where like-
wife they (hew you, what they call the fiery furnace, into which Shadrach,
Mejbach, and Ahed-nego were thrown. Somewhere about Coma, are the re
mains of an ancient tomb, which is faid to be that of the prophet Ezra\ and
in the ruins of Niniveh, near Moful (of which hereafter) is one reported to be
the prophet Jonah's. We are impatient for the return of the Jew hither to
open his packet, being big with expectation of news from Europe. Our fetting
off for Moful depends alfo on the return of thefe devotees, for we are to be
ferved with thirty of their mules.
At three this morning, all the party (except Mr. Pye, whofe want of June 13.
ftrength would not admit of it) accompanied by Mr. Garden, and an Italian
mifllonary named Clementina, with one of Mr. Garden's fervants, and an Arab
to (hew us the road, left Baghdad for NimrotPs tower. It lies weft by north,
diftant about nine miles. We pafied the Tygris by the fame bridge of boats
before-mentioned, and rode through the old city of Baghdad ; from whence,
quite up to the tower, ruins of buildings either wholly above or fome-
what under ground are ftill to be feen, which can be no other than the re
mains of the ancient Seleucia. The ground began to rife in a gentle afcent,
for half a quarter of a mile before we reached the tower, occaiioned, as wc
imagined, by the rubbilh of the old buildings which once ftood here.
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