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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.' [‎333] (380/506)

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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As the Mountains bring forth Marble, fo the Earth difpenfeth Hot Chap. XL
Baths and Mineral Waters for their Commodity ; in like manner,
Natural Mummy, and a Liquid Bitumen in the Lake from whence
Semiramis took Cement to unite the Wall (lie built round Bahylon;
and from about Thirty Mountains near the fame place about Scha-
mchh, as it is conjectured, fprings the famous
At the Foot of the high Mountain Barmuch are found feveral forts Minerals
of Minerals, with which its prodigious Womb is pregnant: But at
finding of thefe, as their Ingenuity is flow, fo for certain they are lefs
apt to put themfelves upon extraordinary Labours in Spagyrical Ope
rations ; "having hitherto been content with the dull Metals of Lead
and Iron, had not lately ii&AWj Wand directed them to the Scru
tiny of a Copper Vein ; from whence they reap not greater Emolu
ment than the Hollanders do Detriment; For formerly as they
brought great Quantities from Japan, that turned to good Account,
now that Trade falls off; and whereas before it yielded them befides
Cloth of Gold and Silver, Silks and Velvets, Carpets and other Ma
nufactories, which they are obliged by Compadi to take off their
hands every Year, to the entire 5>um of Fifty thoufand Thomands,
all which they more than cleared, carrying away moreover feveral
Tuns of Gold and Silver in Coin; at prefent they can but juft pay,
and make even the aforefaid Indenture.
About 5/r^ are to be digged Mines of Gold and Silver, but they
quit neither Coft nor Pains, wherefore they have laid afide the far
ther Inqueft into them.
Hitherto we have run through a fpacious Field, though perhaps
not every where equally fortunate in every thing; for,
Hie Segetes, illic venlmt f xlicius TJvce
Ar h or ei foetus alil't. —
Here Corn grows beft, there Vines do flourifh more;
Woods in another place produce their Store.
Though for the mofl: part this is an hofpitable Soil, cherilliing in its
Matrice whatever is kindly fowed.
And this Increafe is continued without any notable River, that Rivers,
hath either Breadth or Depth for to bear laden Veffels of any Bulk:
For, zs Farenius wntzs, the manner whereby any Rivers of confide-
rable or indifferent Bignefs exift, are twofold ; either from the con
junction of many Rivulets into one Stream, or that they flow from
great Lakes; the former of which every one hinders, while they
draw every Brook to their own Ufe ; fo that inftead of filling large
Channels, they almoft drei^j them quite, which might otherwife
merit to be called great Rivers; to wit, that of Siras and Perfepo-
lis, which wafhing its Plain, makes a long Journy before it mixes
with the Salt Sea: And laftly, the River ixSuffahaun, which never
runs with a full Current, only about the Autumnal Quarter, when
fometimes by Rain, but always by the difTolved Snows after Summer
is over, the Husbandmen breaking down their Dams, purpofely rai*
fed to keep the Waters up for the fake of the Rice, the Waters being
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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.' [‎333] (380/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917456.0x0000b5> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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