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'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎3] (38/506)

The record is made up of 1 volume (427 pages). It was created in 1698. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Two days after we efpied one Sail to the Leeward under a main' Chap. J.
Courfe, fleering very doubtfully; after Ihe had had her full view of
usjfhe made from us too nimble for us to follow j we fuppofed her to
be either an Algerine Pirate, or a Dutch Privateer. We flill directed
. our Courfe South, and in Twenty four Hours ran One hundred and
feventeen Miles by our Log-board for fome days together, the Wca- Little credit
ther not allowing us to obferve with the Quadrant; but as foon as tobe 8 iv ento
we could take the Suns Altitude, we found our felves to be in the inrefp^of 1
Latitude of 36 deg. 2 rain. North, Longitude 7 deg. 26 min. Weft ^ theShipsway.
an hundred Miles in four Days more than we judged our felves to
be j which futficiently proves the little credit to be given to the for
mer way ot reckoning.
The following day maintaining the fame Courfe, we pad by the
Mouth of the Streights of Gihrgltar, one of Hercules $ Pillars^ the Hercule s \ Pfi-
fartheft Point South of zWEurope, ^ Jar -
Here we began to drop the refl: of our Company, fome (biking Weioft our
Eafi for the StreightSy others Weft for the Canaries^ Firginia, &c. Companions
At Noon our Admiral fired a Gun, and hoifted his Ancient, 1>yde fi rees -
whereby we underftood he faw Land , which we thought to be
Porto Porto, bearing off us Eafl. An hour more being hardly run,
we in like manner made the Madera Ifland, the largefl of the whole The ifland of
Atlantkk , being South-Baft fome twelve Leagues, too great a di- Madera^ the
fiance to take a perfed Landfchap, it being only difcernible to Ire ^hntldoZ
Land , and confirmed to be fo by this days Obfervation, which an. ' ' ce '
was 3 ] deg. 17 min. to the Northward of the Equator , in Latitude
and Longitude from the Lizzard as before, we having neither raifed
nor deprefled it. Where the Trade-winds begin to offer themfelves,
the Mariner relaxes his anxious care of Sailing, and is at more lei-
fure to Repofe; he not being fo often called upon to fhift his Courfe,
or hand his Sails; vfrhich has yet this inconvenience, giving him
leave now to fall into thofe Diftempers Idlenefs contracts, viz, the
Scurvy , and other ill Habits; unlefs rouzed by an Adive Com
mander, either to Sports, or more ufeful Employments : Although
the perfed: knowledge of thefe Trade-winds (which are more con-
flant within the Tropicks) are of fuch importance as to make our
Modern Navigators perform that in fix Months, which took up
the Pains and Travels of as many Years from the firfl Difcoverers^
they keeping all along the Shore, whereupon they became not only
liable to unaccountable Changes, as they met with Landbriezes, The adnn-
Head-lands, or Contrary Winds; but were many times difappointed tageofunder-
either to go on, or return, by the feveral Accidents they encountered Trad^wbds
thereupon; which thefe more, experienced and bold Adventurers sndthe^si-
by (landing off to Sea, and fludy of their Compafs by a more accu- mut^l •
rate Computation of their Way by the Quadrant and Azimuth, and
a flrid enquiry of the commencing and terminating of thefe Winds,
avoid.
In this fhort fpace we have almofl outran the Northern Winters
Blafts, and begin to be fenfible of a more vigorous Clime, whofe
temperate Warmth adds Spirits to our frozen Limbs: Yet in this
forward Spring ( for fuch it feemeql to us) we cannot efcape fome
Lafhes of that cold Nemejis; for Night being come, ihe fends a
Storm of Rain and Hail with an high and bleak Wind, in which
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A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.

Author: John Fryer, M D.

Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.

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1 volume (427 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.

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'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎3] (38/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917455.0x000027> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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