'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.' [‎87] (126/1024)

Chap.VIIL tf/Monfidur Tavernier.
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is no likelihood that this (hould be the Remains of the ancient Tawer of Ba-
The Plane of the City of Ragdat, which is to be cotapafs’d, as well
by Land as by Water, in two Hours.
A. The Gromd-Vlot.
B. The Fortrejs.
C. The Gate call’d Maazan-capi.
D. The New Bulwark^
E. Ihe Fort where the Grand Signer erected his fir ft Batt'ry* Anno 1658
F. The Old Bulwark.
G. The Gate in the Wall.
H. The Old Bulwark.
I. The Place where Arnurat vais d his fecond Batt ry 0 when he made this Breach^ and
took^ the City.
K. The Gate in the Wall.
L. The Old Bulwark.
M. The The Old Bulwark^
N. Cara-capi, or the Black GatCo
O. The Old Bulwark: <
P. Sou-capi, or the Water-Gate.
mg a large 1 Hand, crofs’d by icveral fmall Chanels.
i wiicii we came to the place where Tigris divides it fell* we beheld as it were
] thecompais ofa City that might have formerly been a large League in circuit. There
are fome of the Walls yet ftanding, upon which fix Coaclies may go a-breR. They
are made of burnt Brick, every Brick being ten Foot fquare, and three thick. The
Chronicles of the Country fay, that thefe were the Ruines of the ancient Ba
rn hylon.
We follow’d that Arm of Tigris that runs along the Coaftof Chaldea, for fear
of tailing into the hands of the Arabs, who were then at War with the Baft)a of
Babylon, denying to pay the ordinary Tribute to the Grand Signor. We were ten
clays upon the Water in our paffage from Bagdat to Balfara, and lay every night
( upon the Wetter, dreffing our Victuals in the Bark. For when we came to any
Villages, we fent our Servants a-fhoar to buy Provifions, which we had very cheap.
Now the Towns we met with qpon the Shoar were thefe; Amur at, where there
ftOpd a Fort of Brick bak’d in the Sun ; Manfotiry, a great Town A/agar, Gazbr,
| and Gorno. A t this lad: place Euphrates and Tigris meet together: where arcalfo
I three Caftles to he teen-} one upon* the Point where the two Rivers meet, which is
ij *he ftrongeft, and where the Son yf the Prince of Balfara then commanded} the
fecond upon Chaldea tide} and the third upon Arabia fide. Though the Cuftoms be
there exadfly demanded, and paid, yet they never fearch anyperfon. The Tides
P come up.to that place : to that having hut fifteen Leagues to Bhlfara, we got thither
l in fev’n hours, having both Wind and Tide.
All the Country between Bagdat and Balfara is inter-cut and parted by Dikes,
J likfe the Low Countries ', the two Cities lying a hundred and fixty Leagues one from
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A Continuation of the Otyad from Bagdat to Ballara • and of the
Religion of the Chriflians of St. John.
CHAP* VIIL
H E fifteenth of March we hir’d a Bark from Magdat to Balfara. And
we ohferv’d, that a little beyond Bagdat the River Tigris divides it felf
into two Arms} the one which runs through the ancient Chaldea, the
other keeps its courfe toward the Point of MefopotamU 5 thefe two
the