'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.' [‎32] (65/1024)

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the Persian ‘Travels Book I.
CHAP. VII.
Of the Otyad from Smyrna to Ifpahan 3 through Natolia.
Mjrm is at this day for Trade, whether it be by Sea or Land, one of the
moft celebrated Cities of all the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. ^ and the greateft Market for ail
forts of Commodities which arc tran(ported out of Afia, into Eurot,e or
. _. LJT _ out ot Europe into Afia. Hither all the Weftern Fleets are moft regularly
bound, that came formerly no farther than Ligorn^ and from whence, at times
mod regularly appointed, the faireft Caravans fet out
This City lyes in 50 Degrees of Longitude*, and 3S Degrees, 45 Minutes of
Latitude*, at the bottom of a Gulf in the rchipeUgo y wliich is (even Leagues in
length, upon the right fide of the i/?^^ which begins to form the CPtmnfdaoi
Clazomene, right againft the Ifland of Schio. It lyes in that part of the Leifer Afia
which the ^rec^jpofTefs d, under the Name of Iccnium^ at adiftance almoft equar
between Epbefh and Sardis j and was one of the feven Charches mention’d in the
Revelatidnof St.John. It is at this day a great City, built like an Amphitheater
upon the defeent of a Hill that looks toward the Summer-Weft. But it is neither
fo great, nor fo beautiful as formerly it was, as may be eafiiy conje&ur’d by the
Ruinesof certain Edifices that remain upon that Hill, which from the middle to
the top, where the ancient City ftood, are altogether uninhabited.- There are
alfo to be feen the Walls of a fair Caftle, and above that the Ruinesof an Amphi
theater, where they hy St. Polycarp was expos’d to fight with Lions. This Am
phitheater was not in the form of thofe other, which are ufually round; for it con
tain’d but half a Circle* being left open to the Sea-fide. The Turks have almoft
quite deftroy’d it: making ufe of the Stones to build a For t two Leagues from the
City, upon the Gulf, where the pafifage is very narrow y which the Ships are forc’d
to fa lute as they inter in, and to-fpeak with when they fail out. Moreover
that they might not be put to fend for Stones a-far-off, they eonfulted whether
they mightnot make ufe p( the Stores of theChriftians Monuments, as alfoof thofe
of the Jw, which are near the Shore: But they took very few, whether out of
kindnefato the Tombs, or whether they did not think them fo proper for ufe as the
Stones of the Amphitheater. This Cafile had not been long built, but upon an occafion
very remarkable. In the laft Wars of the T arks with the Venetians, the Ottoman
Fleet having been beaten in the Archipelago, the Grand Signer refoiv’d to refit
another to Sea, and thereupon fent to all the parts of his Empire, where he knew
any Englifh or Holland Veflels ufually were wont to ride, to follicit them to ferve him
lor his Pay. More particularly he aim’d at thofe Veifels whichf were in Smyrna,
where there were generally more than in any other Port. But the Captains, who
reje&ed his Propofition of fighting againft Cut Venetians^ believing that he would
put fome force upon them, fudctenly hois’d Sail and got away ; it being at a time
when he could not keep them in, having no'Caftle then built to command them;
The Grand nettl’d at the.refufaLof the Captains, as an affront done to his
^ . an< ^ t0 i^ ce ^hat the Ships could come in and go out, without any let or
ttioieftation, bethought himfelf (to the end he might keep them for the future under;'
iubjeftion ) of building a Fort upon the Gul^ in fuch a part where the Veffels mull
ncceflarily touch; where now there lye great Cannons level with the Water, which
ho VelTel can efcape. Ever fince the Convoys will not come to Smyrna^ as they were
wonttodo, but lye out at Sea, out of the reach of the Fort.
. Near to the Sea are yet to be fe.n fome Remains of a Church, two fides whereof
leem tohave been diftinguifli'd into Chappels by little Walls, which are yet ftanding:
cut the Natives doubt whether they be the Ruines of a Church dedicated to St. Toly
sarpi or of an ancient Temple of J anuji
- haS bcen oftcmiraes * u[n ’d either by the Wars, or by the Earthquakes
r i C happen there. One time that I (laid there, there happen’d one, which
01a not lilt long, but was very terrible. About fixty Paces from the Sea arc to be
i cern the Ruines of great Walls two Foot under Water; and at the end of the
City