• ( 7^1 ) NumbA29. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTION S. 
Ncvmb,2Q* 1 6^^) for the Months cf Offerer and November* 
The CONTENTS. — 
ObfervAtions concerning [ome of the moft confiderable parts of 
Afia. 7wo Contrivances of H3 grorcopes,^; Alr.Coniers ; ante' 
rior to that^ which was fublijhed, N. 1 2 7. "the Occultation of the 
Planet Mars by the Moon^obferved byMonf. Hevelius,Mr4 FJani» 
ftead and iM>.Ha!ly. two Letters concerning Rock- Plants,^A^ir 
Figures and Growth Jn Aca^unt of fome Books:], Ephev^itndwxn 
MedicO'Pbyficarum Germanicaruni Annus IV.& V» II. NcH' ^ 
veUe Methode en Geometrie pour les Sections des fuperjicies * 
Coniquesdr Cylindriques, &€. III. Ophthi'mographia^ A. Gu^ 
Briggs J^M. IV. Longitude found by H. nd Sen. 
Obfervations concerning fome of the moji corfjtderable parts of 
ASIA. 
FOrthefe Obfervations, as they are to follow, we are obliged 
to that great Traveller, Monfieur JV^/^ Baptise Tavernier^ 
who having made fix Voyages in?o Ti^r^7,P^r/?^jand the jE^/Z- 
Indies^ (five of which were by him performed by LaDd,)hath 
lately publiflied the fame in two Volumes in quarto Fart^.The 
firft whereof,(to be only taken notice of in this Tra^jcontains 
I. The different. Roads paflable from Faris to IJpaban^ through 
the Northern Countries oilurky: 2. The feveral Roads from the 
fame City of Farts to through thtSouthern Provinces of 
Turky^and through the Defert : ^.The Roads paflable into TurJ^y 
^nd Ferfia through ihe Northern Provinces of Eurofe-^ where 
occurs a particular Relation of divers Countries neighbouring 
to the JB/4r4^nd Calpian Seas : 4. A Dcfcription of Ferfu , its 
Inhabitants, Produftions,Govcionienr, Cuftoms, Arts, Manu- 
fafturesand Commodities. 
Some of the ObfemMions themfelvesi 
!♦ That IJpahan is about the bignefs of Paris , but that Fari^ 
hath ten times more people tban IJpahan. 
2, That the Air of Gomron from the month of Jfril to that 
of November is fo unhealthy, that it breeds a very malign Fe- 
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