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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.' [‎143] (188/506)

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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marum plena funt omnia. ,
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Sic Ovidius.
Semina limus hahet virides generantia ranas.
Who all confent to the poflibility of the thing, the prolifick Virtue
lying hid in the flimy Matter, till a conjundion of fit Caufes difpofe
it for fuddain Action.
Walking the Quarters of my Lodgings, a more delightful, and
as unufual a Profpedt attraded my Animadverfion; a great Tree full
of ftringy red Flowers, fet in open Calices upon a long Stalk, like
budding Grapes ; which before the Sun had colle&ed much force,
I faw begin to fall in fhowers upon the Ground; defiring to handle one
Bough, I obferved them fixed; Hill they upon the Tree dropped till
all was ihedded, and the Ground ftrewed with them, which a Brach-
min carefully gathered up to referve for a Phyfical ufe; but more
truly out of Superftition, paying Rent for the Privilege : This
Wonder is renewed daily, they Bloffoming in the Night, and con
trary almoft to all other Plants, are difgufted with the Sun-beams,
drooping in the day; which is like the Arhor Trifiis at St. Thomas
his Mount, only the Flowers of that are White and Sweet, and this
Red and indifferently Scented; the Leaves of the Tree refemble
thofe of a Walnut; in the Country Nomenclature it is called Mure; of
What Virtue I cannot learn.
Difcharging here my Oxen, which I hired of a Gentue, who
though they will not Rill their Neat, make no Confcience to Work
them to Death, allowing them hardly Food to keep them alive.
Neither are they lefs Inhuman toward their Sick, a Woman being
brought to die among the Tombs in my fight; pretended to be done
to avoid the Governor's troubling the Family ( where (he lived a
Dancing Wench ) for Money ; they making themfelves Heirs to
their Eftates when they die: Nov ad eundtmfinem quern Herodotus
ait, uti Antiquiores JEgyptii cegrotos fuos non ad medicos, fed in compita,
& public as vias deferehant y populum prttteremtem pro morlorum cura-
tione confulturi: Not for that purpofe, as Herodotus prefumes ; the
Egyptians brought not their Sick to Phyficians, but laid them in the
Streets and publick Paflages, that the People pafling by might be
confulted for their Cure.
Every Third Hour I had the din of a Man of God of the Moors,
permitted to come hither to call them to Prayers; as he cried aloud
he (lopped his Ears with his Fingers, that he might emit his Voice
with the more ftrength, and lefs difturbance to himfelf ; experience
thereby directing us to hear our own Sounds the better; and fome
Anatomifts tell us, Nature has framed a Cartilaginous paflage from
the hollow of the Drum of the Ear, to theprocefsof the outward
part of the cuneal Bone reaching to the Palat, which being open
may poflibly divert the Noife ; but whether this do help, or is un-
derftood by them, yet this they do Pradife; and this Afternoon
their Sanftum San ft or um was open, the Prieft entring in Barefoot and
Proftrating himfelf on the Mats fpread on the Floor, whither I muft
n»t
Cruelty to
their Beafts.
Inhumanity
to their Sick.'
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Priefts follow
Trades.

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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.' [‎143] (188/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917455.0x0000bd> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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