is Tttrki/h, but much more foft and elegant then at Confiant msple. As for the 

 Perfian Language, it is fpoken in the Courts of the Great Mogul, and the Kings of 

 Golconda and Hfapour, in all which Courts a Noble man would take it for an af- 

 front to be fpok'n to in the Indian Language. 



As for their Painters they only paint in miniature, and for Birds and Flowers 

 they will draw them indifferently well : But for figures and ftories they know not 

 what belongs to any fuch thing. 



The Perfians are moft excellent Artifts for manufactures of Gold,Silk and Silver, 

 of which their rich Carpets and Tiffues are made : nor do their Gold and Silver 

 Manufactures ever grow black or loofe their lufter by long wearing or lying by. 

 There are abundance that work in Silk ftuffs of all forts, and others that make 

 Bonnets and Girdles of Gold and Silk. Others there are whofe bufinefs it is to 

 fàft'n flowers of Gold and Silver to their Taffata's, with gum water, of which 

 the women make Shifts and Drawers. And now they begin to make fuch large 

 quantities of Taffata's, that. they care not for the ftuffs which are brought out of 

 India, though they be much finer. 



They alfo make great quantities of Linnen Cloth of all forts of colour?, upon 

 which they faft'n feveral flowers with gum water, and lôme figures, though the 

 Law forbid it. Which they learnt to do upon the Armenians carrying out of Eu- 

 rope fome ill-favour'd cuts and pieces in diftemper which they bought here without 

 judgment : thefe pieces^tïïëy hang before their doors, and thofc hollow places 

 in the walls where they put their Quilts and Carpets when they rife. 



The Per fans are excellent Artifts at Damafquing with Vitriol, or engraving Da- 

 mask-wife upon Swords, Knives, and the like. But the nature of the Steel which 

 they make ufe of, very much contributes to their Art, in regard they cannot 

 perform the fame work neither upon their own nor ours.This fteel is brought from 

 Golconda, and is the only fort of fteel which can be damafqu d. For when the 

 workman puts it in the fire, he needs no more then to give it the rednels of a 

 Cherry, and inftead of quenching it in the water as we do, to wrap it in a-moift 

 Linnen cloth : for mould he give it the fame heat as to ours, it would grow fo 

 hard that when it came to be wrought it would break like glafs. I fpeak this to 

 undeceive thofe people who think our Scimitars and Cut-laiies are made of fteel 

 of Damafcus, which is a vulgar error } there being no fteel but that of Golconda 

 that can be Damask'd. 



The Perjtans are alfo excellent Artifts at making Bows and Arrows, and fuch 

 other weapons as are us'd in that Country. As for Bridles and Saddles their Ar- 

 tifts far exceed ours,efpecially in their fowing,which they do fo neatly and with fo 

 much art with a kind of back-ftitch, that it looks almoft like an embroidery.There 

 are an infinite number that live by drefTing Seal-skins and Goat-skins, the firft to 

 make boots for the Gentry and better fort of Merchants, the latter for the poor 

 people. 



There is alfo a fort of earthen w^re^made at Kerman which is very fine, and be- 

 ing brok'n looks as white within as without. It does not endure hear fo well as 

 Porcellane, which has this quality, that if you powre never fo hot liquor into a 

 Torcellane cup,neither the foot nor the brims a-top will be any thing the warmer. 



There are abundance of poor people that get their living by mending glafs To- 

 bacco-pipes, for when they are brok'n they join them together again with a cer- 

 tain maftic made of lime, and the white of an egg, then with a Diamond-pointed 

 piercer they make holes in the glafs, and bind the pieces together with a thin 

 Latten-wire. 



The moft confiderable commodities of Perfia are the Silks which come out of 

 the Province ofGuilan. But there is not fo much tranfported out of Perfia as men 

 imaging For formerly great quantities of Velvets, Tiffues and Taffata's were 

 tranfpoited out of Perfia into thele parts:but now we make them better and cheap- 

 er in Europe. 



There is alfo a vaft quantity of flat filk transported out of Perfia into Turtle , 

 Mufcovy and Poland, which the women ufe in embroidery : for the Colours being 

 lively, they embroider their fliifts, hankerchers, vails, and other linnen with 

 it. 



The Seal-skins and Goat-skins which are drefè't in Perfia are tranlported by the . 



Hollars- 



