'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.' [‎59] (1014/1024)

Dominions of the Great Mogul, &C.
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The Calicuts that come from Labor, and Bengal*, are fold by the
Cor g e 5 an d they are of feveral prices, from feventeen Routes to three or
four'hunder’dj as the Merchant will have them wov’n.
The Calicuts that come from Rewnfari,and Earocbe&xzonz and twenty
cubits long, new out of the Loom 5 but in the whitening they ftirink to
twenty cubits. . . . i . ,
Thofe of Brouda twenty cubits from the Loom, and innnK m tne
whitening to nineteen and a half. .. ^
.• ^1] t h e Calicuts or Baft as that come from thefe three Cities, are ot two
forts: for fome are broad, fome are narrow. The narrow are thofe I have
already mention’d, the prices whereof are various, from two Mamoudt $
t0 The broad Btftas are a cubit, and one third part wide, the whole
piece twenty cubits long. The ufual price of them is from fazM«moudi s
to twelve: but a Merchant being upon the place, may caufe them to be
made much more large and fine, till they are worth five-hundred^
nmdi's a piece. I faw two pieces fold for a thoufand Mmwudi s.
The Erighjh bought one,and the HolUMders another,each Piececontain-
ins eight and twenty cubits. ... i_ u u j e
Auhamed Alike? returning into Verfu out of India.-, where he had been
Embalfador, prefented Cha-Sef the fecond with a Coco-nut, about the
btgnefsofanAuftrich-egg, all befet with Pearls : and when twas open d .
there was taken out of it a Turbant that had fixty cubits of Calicut in ,
length to make it, theCloath being fo fine, that you could hardly fed it
in your hand: For they will fpin their thread fo fine, that the eye can
hard I y difcern it, or at leaft it feems to be but a Cob-web.
Twifted-Cotton.
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C Otton twifted and untwifted comes from the Provinces of Bramfour
and Guzerat. Untwifted Cotton is never tranfported mto £»^,
being too cumberfome, and of little value 5 only they fend it to
Balfa, and fometimes to the ^/%/W-Iflands, and the madsoiSgde
As for the twifted Cottons, the Englfi and tranfport a good
mnnrirv not of the fined, but of that fort which is pnc d from fifteen to
Ty SSv • > It ferves for wieks for Candles, for Packfaddles, and for
the ground of Siik-ftuffs.
Indigo.
T Ndigo comes from feveral parts of the Great A/^«/s Empire, and
1 according to the diverfity of the places it differs in quality, and con
^nth^firTplace, it comes from the Territories of Buna, indma , and
f rUv nr rwo’s iournev from Agra: which is efteem d the beft of all.
J IpnmiPQ diftance from Amadabat. Here the flat Indigo is made. There
k ^ vhicl,come,from .!»
8 rfttaSv tmuorifs. The of.*". »»»■«
f err ,- s 0 r aa. and a half of our pounds, is yalud fronn 15 to 10
¥ ! Vhev make as good as this at That which is made up
Zufrf made up in half Balls, and is tire moft fought for in all l»^