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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.' [‎351] (398/506)

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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The Prefent State of PERSIA. 551
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as among us Papifts and Proteftants we difpute about the Lawful Sue- Chap XK
ceflorbf our Saviour; for took the Daughter of the falfe Prophet uKrv.
Mahomet to Wife, and thence took upon him and bore away the Suc-
cetfion of the Caliphs amongft the Perfians'. Repudiating Muhequer,
or Ahuhezar, Omor and Ofman^ in right of Mahomet's Brother, with
all the Turkijh Followers ; and thus the Suffean proclaim Mortis Haly
the next of Kin, being Son-in-law to Mahomet, and in that Right
Lawfully inducted into the Caliphfhip ; and though hereby in pro-
cefs of time the Caliphlhip and Empire were united, Adir Suffee
maintaining his Claim and his Sons, at laftgot honourably enough
into the Throne ; yet herearofe matter of perpetual Animoflty, ne
ver to be extinguifhed, while the Omerans, whence fpring the Otto
man Family and Sed, ftill Oppofe, Contradid, and Perfecute the
Suffean Sedh
Infomuch that the laft Imaum , or the laft of the Twelve falfe
Apoftles, from Haly, by Name Mahomet Mehdi Saheh Elzamon,
i. e. The Lord of times, being taken by the Snares of the Omerans
they would have flain him; when ( fay the Perfians ) God rendred
him Invifible, and retains him out of harms way, and Alive, till
Begga^e come 5 which with us is rendred Antichrift ; then the Lord
of Times fhall appear and (hall reduce all thofe that are led away by
Magical Inchantments, into the right way; declaring moreover, '
Chrifi Hazare Taiffa at that time (hall be reftored to the Living,and be
received by Mahomet Mehdi into his Service; that by his Prayers and
Meritorious Intercetfion, he, with all the Faithful Mahometans, may be
partakers of eternal Glory at the Day of Judgment. Not under-
flanding in the mean time, that at the name of Jefus every knee fhall
low, hoth of things above and things helow ; and that there is no other
name given in earth or heaven whereby we can he faved.
And while the Turks and Perfians contend at this rate, it is alone
the pretence of an everlafting War, while the Perfians Efpoufe the
Suffee, being uncertain where to place the Caliphfhip after the Af-
faflination of Mahomet Mehdi, and the Interregnum thence enfuing,
better than on t\(\sAdir Suffee, who though he was llain by Cufjanel
his Succeflbrs, was afterwards revenged by 7/w^/his Son, who was
firft faluted King of Perfia, as well as acknowledged Caliph by right
of Confanguinity; obtaining the firft by right of Conqueil Two
hundred Years and more, after the Caliphihip was covered in the
Embers of Oblivion raked up, and in the Perfian Annals is fet
down;
Shaw Ifmael Moffy ; whom follows
Shaw Tomage; after him
Shaw MahmudConduhad; then
the Great:
Who when he had enlarged his Dominions from the Perfian Gulf rhtEM
to the Cafpian Sea; and laflly, when he was about to wage War Sack Or mm by
with the Sea it felf, in the Year 1610, or thereabouts, having not fur P rire -
one Port in the Bay of Perfia before the Arrival of an Englifo Ship,
fent out by the Company of Merchants Trading then to this Place,
Com-
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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.' [‎351] (398/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917456.0x0000c7> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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