no The Persian Travels Book III. 



About a days journey beyond the Mountain you meet with a little City, whofe 

 fituation , the Streams that water it , the good Fruits that grow there , and parti- 

 cularly the excellent Wine which it affords, render a moft pleafant Manfion. The 

 Pcrjhns believe that Alexander when he return'd from Babylon dy'd in this place, 

 what-ever others have writt'n that he dy'd at Babylon. All the reft of the Country 

 from this City to Bagdat is a Country of Dates, where the people live in little Hutts, 

 made of the Branches of Palm-trees. 



From Bagdat to Anna you ride in four days , through a defert Country, though 

 it lye between two Rivers. 



Anna is a City of an indifferent bignefs , that belongs to an Arabian Emir. For 

 about half a League round about the Town, the Lands arc very well manur'd, being 

 full of Gardens and Country-houfes. The City for its fituation refembles Paris . 

 for it is built upon both fides of the River Euphrates ; and in the midft of the River 

 is an Ifland, where ftands a fair Mofyuee. 



From Anna to Mached-raba is five days riding , and from Mached-raba to Taiba, 

 five days more. 



Mached-raba is a kind of a Jortrefs upon the point of a Hill , at the Foot whereof 

 fprings a Fountain like a large Vafc , which is very rare in theDeferts. The place 

 is encompafs'd with high Walls , defended by certain Towers, and in which are 

 little Hutts where the Inhabitants keep their Cattel , of which there is great ftore, 

 but more Mares and Horfes than Cows. 



Taiba is alfo a fortifi'd place in a level Country , or a high Bank of Earth and 

 Brick bak'd in the Sun. Near to the Gate a Fountain fprings out of the Earth, and 

 makes a kind of a Pond. This Road is moft frequented by thofe that travel through 

 the Defert from Aleppo or Dam as to Babylon , or from Damas to Diarbequir, by 

 reafon of this Fountain. 



From Taiba to Aleppo is but three days journey j but thefe three days are the 

 moft dangerous of all the Road for Robbers , in regard that all the Country is inha- 

 bited only by the Bedouins , or Arabian Shepherds, who make it their bufinefs only 

 to plunder and fteal. 



9 Now to take the fame Road from Aleppo to Jjpahan , it lyes thus : 



From Aleppo to Taiba , days • , 



From Taiba to Mached-raba , days * 



From Mached-raba to Anna , days ^ 



From Anna to Bagdat, days * 

 From Bagdat to Bourous, days 



From Bonrom to Charaban, days ! 



From Char ab an to Cafered, days j 

 From Cafered to Conaguy , days . x 



From Conaguy to Caffifcerin , days j 



From Caffifcerin to another Conaguy , days x 



From Conaguy to Erounabad , days j 



From Erounabad to Maidacht , days x 



From Maidacht to Sahana , days ' x 



From Sahana to Kengavar, days l 



From Kengavar to Naho'uand, days x 



From Naho'uand to Oranguie , days 1 



From Oranguie to Comba , days r 



• From Comba to Confar , days ! 



From Confar to Jjpahan , days r 



So that whether you travel from Aleppo to IJpahan y or from IJpahan to Aleppo, 

 you may eafily ride it in thirty days. 



From whence I make this Obfervation , That a man making it but two days 

 more from Alexandres a , and finding a Ship ready there to fet Sail for Marfeilits. 

 with a fair Wind he may travel from Ifiahan to Paris in two months. 



Another time , having an occafion to go from Aleppo to Kengavar , and (o to 

 Bagdat ; and from thence, fo through the Defert ; at Bagdat I met with a Spaniard 

 that was travelling the fame way , with whom I luckily met to bear half the Charges 

 of the Guides .which as foon as we had hir'd for fixty Crowns, we fet forward from 



Bagdat 



