'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.' [‎299] (348/562)

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fafficient motives to engage this people in die purfuit of -aftronomical
obfervations *.
In our excurfion to the tower, we met with no interruption, and faw but
very few perfons however, it would not be prudent for a man to go thither
alone, or even for a large party unarmed. We all had our piftols with us,
and Mr. Garden's fervant carried a mufket. We tarried at the tower an
hour and half, and by ten in the morning got back to Mr. Garden's
houfe. In our return through the old city, we pafled clofe by a decayed
Mcfque, upon whofe dome we obferved a ftork, of the fize of a goofe,
its breaft white, its head black and white, as were its wings; it had
a long beak, and legs not lefs than two feet in length. In its neft on
the top of the dome, were young ones, the head of one of them was
vifible to us; the neft was built of fticks, and of an entire round form , we
judged it to be four feet deep, and at lead two over.
I took notice this morning, that almoft all the Minarets bend or in
cline to the fouth-eaft. Two of them lean very remarkably that way,
but whether they were fo defigned by the builders I was not able to learn.
Perhaps the inclination may be owing to the force of the north-weft wind,
or to the foundations giving way. From thefe, the people of the Mofques^
five times in the 24 hours, (at fun rife, at noon, at three o'clock in the af
ternoon, at fun fet, and at midnight) call the inhabitants to prayers, crying
aloud, " There is but one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet: it is the duty
of man to remember his God. Mujfulmen are now by his fervants called
upon to come and pay their acknowledgments, and humbly to prefent their
lupplications."
We were informed to-day, that the Bajha was preparing for war, and
would very foon put his army in march for the north-ward. The bifhop,
who prefently afterwards paid us a vifit, faid he had heard the report,
though not as a thing certain, but would make farther enquiry about it.
He did not think it improbable, becaufe the^h^J had lately robbed a Cara-
vayi on the northern road, and even at this time, another between JV/p/a/
and Diarbekir is hindered from proceeding, through the appreheniion ot
meeting with the fame fate. The Arabs and malecontents it feems have
taken advantage of the diforderly ftate of the government of Moful, whofe
new Bajha is not yet arrived there from Aleppo \ the accounts lay, he was
to leave Aleppo the day after the ending of the Ramazan.
Nothing particular : but Mr. Pye was fo much recovered, as to take a 15
ride round the walls of the city. Baghdad^ by Meftieurs Alms and Doidges
obfervations, lies in latitude 33 0 21' north.
* A principio Aflyrii propter planitiem maguitudinemque regjonum quas incolabant,
cum caelum ex omni parte patens & apenum intuerentur, tr^ectiones motulque ilellarum
obfervaverunti Cic. lih, 1. de Divin* n. 2.
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