Chap. I. of Monfieur TaverniSr, 39 



THE T HI Gil) $ Ki 



OF THE 



PERSIAN TRAVELS 



O F 



Monsieur TAVERNIER: 



CONTAINING 



The Author's Sixth and Laft V0TA6 E, 



ir 



And the 



ROADS 



Through TVRKT into PERSIA, through 



the Northern Provinces of EU^TE* 



With a Defcription of feveral Countries lying upon 

 the Black , and Caftum S EAS. 



CHAP. L 



Of the Authors fixth and laft Voyage from his Jetting out of Paris, 

 to his Landing at Smyrna. 



" Jt WT- Set out of Paris in the year 1663. for Lyons, with fix feveral Servants 



of feveral profeffions, which I thought moft proper for ray bufinefs. I 



carry'd with me the value of about four hundred thoufand Livers , part in 



Jewels , part in Goldfmiths work and other curiofities , which I defign'd 



for the King of Pcrfia and the Great Mogul. Being at Lyons I bought a 



Steel Mirrour round and hellow , about two foot and a half in Diameter, 



-^^- would immediately melt a Half-Crown by the heat of the Sun-beams : and 



if youfet a Candle by it in the night,you might read two hundred Paces off in your 



Bed by the reflection. 



From Lyons I rode to Marseilles , and fet Sail for Ligorn the tenth of January, 

 1664. in a fmall Bark , but being fcar'd by a great Veffell that we faw off at Sea, 

 we came to an Anchor in the Port of Agate , two Leagues from Frejus, where 

 there ftood a pittiful Fort with two or three Houfes. There we alio went afhore and 

 faw a Garden, the Alleys of which were diftinguifh'd with rows of Citron and Orange 

 Trees, which look'd as Green in the depth of Winter as in the midft of Summer, 

 with feveral other curiofities after the mode of Jtaly. We were no fooner got 

 aboard again , but we perceiv'd another Veffcl making into the fame Port with lull 

 Sail. It was a Veffcl wfcich the Matters of the Forein Office at Toulon , had fet out 



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