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Farther on is the port of Swalley^ where the European Port of S\^al- 

 fliips, bound for Surat, frequently anchor, being the port of 

 that city, three leagues to the north of that river. There the 

 articles of commerce are landed, and the exports fliipped ; but 

 the entrance, without a pilot, is very hazardous, by reafon of 

 the fhoals. Mr. Herbert^ afterwards Sir Thomas, the accom- 

 pliflied attendant on Charles I. the lall two years preceding his 

 murder, found here, in November 1616, fix EngliJJj fliips ; 

 three of a thoufand tons each, the other three of feven hun- 

 dred each ; a proof of the vaft extent of our trade, fo early after 

 the commencement of our commerce. 



I MUST not quit this place without dropping a tear over the ^^ 



^ ^ lift r^^^ CORYATE. 



grave of poor Tom Coryate, the moft fingular traveller Britani, 

 or perhaps any other country, ever fent forth. He lies on the 

 banks of the Ihore, near Szvalley, where he finidied his long 

 peregrinations i:i December 1617, during the time that the 

 pious mmifter, the reverend Edward Terrie, chaplain to Sir 

 Thomas Roe, was there. Tom was born in 1577, at Odcomb, in 

 Somerfefjhire. After publifliing, in 161 1, his moft laughable 

 travels, ftyled Coryate's Crudities, prefaced by above forty copies 

 of verfes, by the waggiili wits of the time (amongft which is 

 one in the antient Britl/h language) he fet out on his greater 

 travels. 



In his Eiiropean travels, he tells us that he walked nineteen 

 hundred and feventy-five miles in one pair of flioes, and had 

 occafion to mend them only once. On his return to Odcombe, 

 he hung them up in the church, as a donar'mm for their bring- 

 ing him fafely home to his natal foil. 



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