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TRAVELS 
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PART IL 
BOOK IIL 
Of the Country of Schiras and other places under thè 
dominion of the King of Perfia. 
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Of the Road from Ilpahan to SchiraSo 
F T E R almoft five Months ftay at Ifpahan^ I made ready to con- Departure 
tinue my Travels forwards > and parted from thence the four and Jfpaha^l 
twentieth day of February^ i6ôj. with a Caravan, wherein there 
were about fifty Mules, a great part of them belonging to Monfieut 
Tavernier, and the reft to Armenians^ who took the occafion of ouc 
going. We took Mules for our Goods, at the rate of five hbajjii^ for an hundred ' 
Mans of Taftris : for our felves we had Horfes i for the Muletors fcrupuled to let us 
have Mules to Ride on : however they were obliged to fpare one for my Servant, 
who carried part of my things with him s for they reckon a man but for thirty 
Mant^ comprehending therein four or five Mans of Bagage. Wefetout then from 
GiolfaT^tefday zt Noon, and paft by Hezar Vgirih, taking our way ftreight E^ï/î i 
at One of the Clock we Encamped by a Kervanferay, called Tahhtponlad, and Ba- 
haruk^, which is near the burying place of the Mahometans. 
We parted from that place the fame day, half an hour after Nine of the Clock at Tahkpkladi 
Night, and held our way ftreight South- Eaft^ over a Plain, which at the entry is ^''^'^''"t* 
ftreightned a little by Hills on both fides,and then opens into a pretty large Champain i 
there grows not one Pile of Grafs in it, and in fome places there are great pieces of 
white Earth of Natural Salt. This Salt is made of Rain-water, which incorpo- Natural Salt, 
rating with that Salinous Earth, produces a Salt, that works cut of the Surface of 
it. We marched in that Plain till about Four a Clock in the Morning, Wednefda% 
the five and twentieth of February^ and then afcended a little Hill Cd.\kd Ortjchin.^^^f^l^' 
that - 
