Chap. I. of Monfîear Taverne r. 



99 



THE T H 1 Qt® <Ê K. 



OF THE 



PERSIAN TRAVELS 



O F 



Monsieur TAVEKNIER; 



CON TA INI NG 



The Author's Sixth ând Làft VOTA G E, 



And the > 



ROADS 



through rVRKT into PERSIA, through 



the Northern Provinces of EU^OVE. 



With a Defcription of feveral Countries lying upori 

 the Black , and Caftian SEAS. 



C H A P. t 



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

 to his Landing at Smyrna* 



1 Set out of Paris in the year 1663. for Lyàns, with fix feveral Servants 

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

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

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

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

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

 would immediately melt a Half-Grown 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 refleftion. 



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

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

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

 there flood a pittiful Fort with two or three Houfes. There we alfo 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 f 

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

 aboard again , but we perceivM another Veflel making into the fame Port with full 

 Saih It was a Veflel which the Matters of the Forein Office AtTottlon , had fef out 



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