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ioo The Persian Travels Book III. 



to force all Ships that were bound into Italy to pay certain Cuftoms , which thole 

 of Marseilles would not pay when they came into the Port of Toulon. Thereupon 

 foreieeing that there would be mifchief done , i call'd for my little Chefts that con- 

 tain'd my Goods of greateft value , carrying ionic part my felf , and giving the 

 reft to one of mv moil trufty Servants, thinking to have skint into a Genoa R u ,-i, 



itiuuji oi uic iuuiuiL* iniu j^xiiu u wuuuul icuej, uau 1 nor py goou iortunc laid hold 

 of a Cable and redeem'd my ielf. At what time one of my Servants luckily coming to 

 my ayd , with much ado drew me up fafe again. 



y-) . 

 franca, and afterwards at Mo?iaco. 



At Monaco I went a-fhoar, and went to wait upon Madam the Princefs, who 

 fhcw'd me the Rarities in the Caftle j among the reft, ievcral pieces of extraordinary 

 Painting , feveral pieces of Clock-work and Goldimiths-work. But among all her 

 Curiofities (he (hew'd me two pieces of Cryftal , about the bignefs of two Fifts each 

 in one of which there was above a Glafs full of Water, in the other a good quan- 

 tity of Mofsj which were clos'd in by Nature when the Cryftal firft con- 

 geal'd. 



Monaco i$ a Caftle fituated upon a fteep Rock, advancing out into the Sea- 

 which advantage, together with others which it receives from Art and Nature,renders 

 it one of the mod confiderable Forts in Italy. 



The next day finding the Front^nan-VcM to be deepladen , and that it made little 

 way, I took a Faluke , and kept along by the Shoar , which was moft plealantlv 

 jdorn'd with beautiful Villages and Houfes, as far as&fcwps where I chanp'd mv 

 Faluke , to copip eat the reft of the way which I had to Genoa. Half the way we 

 did very well , but the Wind rifing, we were fore'd to put in to a great Town 

 where we landed y and from thence , having but nine Miles, I got in good time by* 

 Horfe toGe„ M There can be no Profpett certainly more pleufing than that nine 



fi£n? n M g ' F ° r ,°, n th f ^ f ! dc y° U lee n0thin 8 but a continu'd Row of magni 

 ficent Buildings and lovely Gardens > on the other a calm Shoar , upon which the 

 Waves leem not to beat , but lovingly to kifs. F 



Arriving at Genoa I met with the reft of my Servants ; and at the end of two 

 days I embarqu'd for Ligorn, where we arriv'd in four and twenty hours 



From Limn I went to the Court of Florence, to wait upon the Grand Duke Bv 



whom I had the honour to be admitted into his Chamber, where I found no bodv 



a tending but one Mute, who had a long time ferv'd his Highnefs : and I obferv'd I thai 



hey underftood one another by Signs , as perfertly as if the Mute had had hi Speech 



*? S l *Y when L ever thc Dukc ibnt him ™° ^ Clofct for any Papers 

 or orhcr thing whatfoever , he never fail'd to bring thc rioht Y P 



After I had tak n my leave of the Duke, he lent me a noble Prcfcnt of Wi nc 



and Fruits , but that which I valu'd more than all the reft, was a Cafe of Medicament 



A^ f r P °X f i nS ' " £ cora P° fition whereof the Italians are veVy exS 

 And yet they did me no fervicc, for when I came into the hot CountrLs thdr 



tSTJES r f °v° ng 'r $** thc0 ^ d ***" broke their ieve^B x 

 that I could fave nothing of that precious Prcient * 



The next day, being the twenty-fixth of March 1664, I embarqu'd with all mv 

 Servants in a Dutch VefTel call'd The Juflice emoarqu a with all my 



rJn h o^T y4 'T^ th WC ftaid in the Road ' "Peking the reft of the Fleet con 



were^ounefforf 1PS ' *7 M ? ° f War ' and n " ne Merchant-men, fouo which 

 \vere bound for Smyrna , three for Jnccna , and two for Venice About feven Z 



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cover'd 



