'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎26] (59/1024)

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The Persian ‘Travels Book I. I
From f^Ardenil to Casbin you travel through a good Country:, for every three
or four Leagues you meet with little Rivers that fall from the Northern Mountains
and water the Earth. The Caravan is ulually hve days between Ardeiul and Arm,
between and between 7 V<w and Casbin two more. Haifa League
on this fide Taron you muft crofs a great River over a ttone Bridge, and half a League
beyond you come to Kalkal,
Arion is a little City* Taron and Kalkal are two great lowns; and there arc
but thefe three places mail Perfiawhere there grow any Olives, or that they make
any Oyl. Leaving Kalkal^ you travel ovey a Plain tor three hours,at the end whereofis
a Way which you you cannot get over iiUefs than four hours. 1 he way is lb bad that
the Horfes and Mules can hardly get up but for the Camels,they muft take the lower
Road, which is alfo very tedious, and full of Stones,which the Torrents tumble down,
and it is three or four Leagues about. When you are up, the Country is level,
and you have not above three Leagues to Casbin.
Casbin Ayes in 87 Degrees and 30 Minutes of Longitude, and 3 6 Degrees and
15 Minutes of Latitude. It is a great City, the Houles whereof are low and ill
built *, except feven or eight, which are next to the King’s Gardens. It has na
Walls* and indeed the beft half of the City is in Gardens. There are three Inns,
with Market-places round about * one of the three being large and^ commodious.
It is inhabited altogether by Mahometans or if there be any ChriHians, they are
very few. ,
The Soil about Casbin produces Piftaches. The Tree that bears that is never
bigger than a Walnut-tree of ten or twelve years om^ The great quantity of Pifta
ches that are exported out of Perfia come from Malayert;& little City twelve Leagues
from Ifrahan , toward the Eaft. Thefe are the heft Piftaches in the World, and
the Country being of a large extent, produces them in fuch abundance, that it
furnilhes all Perjia and the Indies.
Leaving Casbin, you come to a little Village where there is but one Inn • and you
travel that day fix Leagues through Countries fertil enough, and well water’d.
The next day you travel through a good Country, and in nine or ten hours you
come to Denghe. This is a great Village at the foot of a Hall, through which there
runs a fair River. It abounds with excellent both White and Claret Wine, where
the Travellers take care to replenifti their Bottles. But generally they never lye
here ; being defirous to go a League farther, for a good Inn’s fake, which makes
it a handfom Stage.
At this Town of Denghe it is where the two Roads from Tauris to IfpahanTneet :
thefirft, through Ardedil and Casbin f I have already deferib’d. Hither alfo come
the Caravans that go for the /#<$£* through Mejhehead and Candahar, and where they
leave Ifpahan Road to take the left-hand Way, which carries them Eaftward. -
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E rnuft now return again to the Lake fix Leagues beyond Taurb,
where they that will take the ordinary fhprx way through^-
gan and leave the left hand way of nArdem ^
' Casbin. ■ This; Take is ufually full of large red Ducks, Which
are very good Meat. .,
From thence* after twelve or thirteen hours travel, in which time you nitwit
three Inns, you come to Karajbima, a large Town in a deep Valley, that feems o
be well manur’d. There is in it only a fmall Inn built of Earch, the Doors wnereo
are folow, that the People are forc’d to creep upon their knees to get in. .
The next day you come to another large Village call’d where the
-*l fcrtil, though it be very cold. There are feveral Caravanfira 7 $ built hk c ^ ®