'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.' [‎375] (428/562)

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fon is gone to Paradife. About four o'clock in the afternoon, a 1758
traveller entered the village, who, a few hours before, had been robbed by
two armed fellows of 160 piaftres.
At half paft five we fet off from Benijh, and travelled four hours and
half through an extenfive grove of dead olive-trees, which had been killed
by the feverity of the winter in the year 1756. This plantation brought
us near to the large village of Eadlip, whole environs are fernle in corn Eadlik -
and tobacco. Here are alfo plantations of mulberry-trees, preferved for
the Silk-worm. By twelve at night, we had palled by a high hill or moun
tain, and entered upon a large plain, called Roudge, where is a well of
water, and from whence we difcovered feveral fires at a diftance, which
our fervants told us belonged to fome encampments of Arahs^ though they
appeared to be nothing more than the burning of Hubble or weeds. We
fhould have been glad to have tarried longer here, but our country attend
ants grew uneafy, knowing it to be the molt dangerous fpot, and the moft
infefted by robbers of any in the whole way between Aleppo and Latkhea..
We therefore armed ourfelves, and proceeded in a more regular order
than we had done before..
At two in the morning we had gotten over the plain, and reached iS.
a watch-houfe, placed on the fide of a rock to our right. Here a party
of foldiers is always ftationed, intended to proteft travellers palling
this way, who upon this account, are obliged to pay a toll. It was
at firft demanded of us for every man and beaft; but upon their
being told that we were Englijhmen, we were fuffered to pals on, makinpr a
prefent of but one Sequin to the commanding officer. At half paft four
we got to the village Shoger, greatly fatigued with a journey of eleven hours, Shogkr.,
in which we took many different courfes. S. one hour; S. W. three;
S. S. W. two and a quarter •, W. and W. N. W. and N. N. W. four and three
quarters. We put up at a Caravanferah^ not chufing to be at the ex-
pence of making prelents, which muit have been the cafe, had we taken
an apartment in the governor 's palace.
Shoger is by no means an incom erable place. It has a governor, a
man of fome confequence, who is not appointed by the Grand Seignior^ but
by a private lord; the revenues of the village^ and the country near it,
being by the imperial bounty, the property of a Vizier family. Here are
fome Mofques with Minarets^ all feated on a hill.
Juft before we arrived at this village, we paffed over the river Orontes, Orontes river;
by a ftone-bridge ol feven or eight arches. The bridge is the largeft we had
crofled for fome time ; for though the river is in general not very wide,
yet at this place it occupies a large fpace,. owing to a confiderable
ifland in the midft ot it, which occafions the water to fpread and become
quite (hallow. The bridge is about forty yards over; but a little below,
the Orontes is not more than twenty yards broad. From the accounts given
b y.