'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.' [‎39] (78/506)

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Maderas
Chap. V.
City of Made-
raf.
THEN divides it felf into divers Long Streets, and they are
checquered by as many tranfverfe. It enjoys fome Choultries
tor Places of Juftice; one Exchange, one Paged, contained in a vifiteda^
square btone-wail; wherein are a number of Chappels (if they may or Hea-
be comprehended under that Claffis, moil of them refemblinff ra- t ' ien ■^ em P^ 0
ther Monuments for the Dead, than Places of Devotion for the Li-
Ving) one for every Tribe; not under one Roof, but diftindly fe-
psrare, though altogether, they bear the name of one intire Pagoda.
The Work is inimitably durable, the biggeft clofed up with Arches
contmuaLy fliut, as where is fuppofed to be hid their Mammon of
Unriglueouinefs, (they burying their Eftates here w 7 hen they dye, by
the penuafipn of their Prlefts, towards their viaticum for another
State) admitting neither Light nor Air,- more than what the Lamps,
always burning, are by open Funnels above fullered to ventilate*
By which Cuftom they feem to keep alive that Opinion of P/ato in
fuch a Revolution to return into the World again, after their Tranf-
migration, according to the Merits of their former living. Thofe of
a minuter dimenfion were open, fupported by (lender ftraight and
round Pulars, plain and uniform up to the top, where fome Hiero°
glyphical Portraiture lends its afliftance to the Roof, fiat, with
Stones laid along like Planks upon our Rafters. On the w 'alls of
good Sculpture were obfeene Images, where Aretine might have
lurmlhed his Fancy for his Bawdy Poftures : The Floor is ftoned
they are of no great altitude ,• {linking moft egregioufly of the Ovi
they wade in their Lamps, and befmear their Beaftly Gods with:
Their outfides fhew Workmanlhip and Cod enough, wrought round
with menflrous Effigies 5 fo that oleum & operam perdere. Pains and
Colt to no purpofe, may not improperly be applied to them. Their
Gates are commonly the higheft of the Work, the others concluding
in morter Piles.
Near the outude of the Town the En or Place of The
Sculls, prefents variety of Tombs, Walks and Sepulchres; which Tombs:
latter, as they it and in a Line, are an open Cloyfler; but
fuccindjy and precifely a Quadragone with Hemifpherical Aparti-
tions; on each fide adorned with Battlements to the abutment of
every Angle, who bear up a Coronal Arch, on whofe Vertex a Globe
is nvited by an Iron Wedge fprouting into a Branch; paved under-
neath with a great Black Stone, whereon is engraved the Name of
the Party interred. The Buildings of lefs note are Low and Decent -
the Town is walled with Mud, and Bulwarks for Watch-places for
the Englijh Peons; only on that fide the Sea wafhes it, and the Fort
meets it. On the North are two great Gates of Brick, and one on
the Weft, where they wade over the River to the Wafhermens Town.
Its Map renders it a Trapezium by an Oblique Stroke of the River
on that Corner, and another next the Sea, thus;
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