'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.' [‎27] (60/1024)

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Chap. VI. of Monlicur Tavernier. 27
AUeylover’d, which are only of Earth, the Men lying at one end, andtheHorfes
( 3t next d a y y 0 u travel over an uneven and defert Country, and in eight hours
time you come to Aftana, a little City fituated in a Marfh, where you pay a Toll
for Guarding the Highways. In this City is one of the faireft Inns in all
Pcy fitt*
Two hours after you leave Miana, you rnuft crofs a River, over a fair Bridge
which runs to decay ; the Arches whereof are hollow within *, it is built of Brick
and Free-ftone, being near as long as Pont neuf in Pari*. This Bridge Hands almolt
at the foot of a Mountain call’d Kaplenton. Sha-Jba* caus’d all the way to be Pav’d,
becaufe the Land is fo fat and doughy, that when it thaws, or that the leaft Rain
fails, it is impoflible for the Caravan to pafs. Befides, there are a fort of Caraels
in Perfia, that when it comes to rain in a deep Soil, are not able to keep their
Legs: nay through the weight of the Burthens which they carry,their very Qua- ter s
wilt rive from their Shoulders, and their Bellies will burrt. So that before the way
was pav’d, they were forc’d to fpread Carpets in the moft flippery ways where
thofe Camels were to pafs: which cnuft be ftiil done in fome places, where the
Pavement is worn away. u
At the lower part of the defcent toward T/j^Wz, upon the knap of a Hill which
Hands by it felf, appears an old forfak’n Fortrefs: it is near the Highway, and a
River, which falls into the Cafpian Sea, after ithas crofs’d the Province of Gmlan{
where it is cut into feveral Chanels. But generally the Corn and Fruits which
grow in Perfia by the help of Water forc’d into Chanels, are of little eHeem,
and much cheaper than thofe that grow in the Provinces whole Fertility is not Arti
ficial. Moreover, that fort of forc’d Grain will not keep above a Year; and if
you keep it longer, it breeds a Vermin that eats it. ’Tis the fame thing if the Com
be ground; and more than that, there breeds a Worm in the Flower, that makes
it lb bitter that ’tis impoflible to eat it.
On this fide the Mountain Kaplenton appear at a diflance two others very high,
one toward the North call’d Saveland, another toward the South call’d Sehand :
there is a third, which cannot be feen in//p^i^tf-Road, being two far but of the
way, near the City of Hamadan. Thefe three Mountains are full of Springs, from
whence moH of the Streams do fall that water Perfia ; And the Perfians do fay ,
that formerly there were many more of thefe Springs, but that about a hundred
Years ago feveral of them have been dry’d up, or otnerwife no body can tell what
is become of them.
There are feveral Villages near the Mountain that pay nothing to the King, but
are oblig’d to fend him a certain quantity of Rice and Butter, for the ufe of the
Mofqaee at Arde 'ail. They have alfo one great Priviledge, That if a Man commits a
Murther, and flyes to any of thefe Villages, he cannot be apprehended, nor can the
King himfelf puniHi him. :i
Leaving the River that runs at the foot of the Mountain Kaplenton, you come to
a fair Inn call’d TJhamalava, built fome years ago : and for thirteen hours after,
travelling over a very barren Country, you meet with another Inn, which is call’d
Sartcham, Handing in a very defert place: which makes the iW*™, that lye there
to fecure the Highways, very infolent, finding themfelves fo far from any Towns
ot Villages. ,
From Samhamyou come to a River, by the Banks whereof you travel a good
while, till you come to an Inn which is call’d Digbe, near a large Village. The
Stru&ure is very handfom, the lower part being of Free-flone undulated with red
and white, and very hard.
The nest day you travel a very uneven Country, till you fall into a deep Valley,
at the end whereof you meet with Zangan, a great T own and ill built. How
ever, it has a very fair Inn, which when I went IsH to Jfpahan was fo full, that
I had like to have lain abroad in the Rain, but for the Courtefie of two
tnenians. From you go to an Inn, where you muH pay the Duties due to
the Kan of Sultanie.
is a very large City, which you leave half a Mile from the Road, near
to a Mountain. Formerly it had in it very beautiful Mojquees, as may be eafily
conjcftur’d by the Ruines that remain. Many Chriftian Churches alfo were con.,
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